My personal problem with anti-vaxxers
By: Tazia Radford
Tags: Antivaxx, Rant, Autism

As an autistic woman, I absolutely and utterly despise anti-vaxxers with a burning passion. Aside from their excuses of the whole “vaccines cause autism", I am also going to vent about two other excuses anti-vaxxers use (or at least that I’m aware of) such as “only natural and holistic medicine will prevent my child from being sick" and “vaccines are sinful". Without further adieu, I am going to do my absolute damndest to use very *little* swearing while I rant on here about why I hate anti-vaxxers and their baloney excuses.

The first and most important but absolutely worst excuse that I am going to address is “vaccines cause autism". Although speaking from personal experiences, this actually may be true or so I’m told. At 18 months old, I did get the vaccine that in fact DID cause me to have autism. However, the reason I am calling bullcrap on “vaccines cause autism" is because which is worse? Autism? Polio? Typhoid? Diptheria? Balto did not almost risk his life going to Alaska to retrieve medicines in order to cure diphtheria only to hear this bullcrap. Autism is no excuse to refuse to vaccinate your kids and the fact that anti-vaxxers USE AUTISM as an excuse is absolutely insulting to me and I’m sure I’m not the only autistic individual who is insulted by this excuse. With that, I would like to move on to the second excuse that I find absolute garbage.

Secondly, I also want to talk about the whole “only natural and holistic medicine will keep my kid from.being sick". Now, I am not saying that you can’t use honey lemon tea to soothe your sore throat or aloe to heal those burns. While natural and holistic ingredients can be very beneficial to our health such as ginger which can help nausea and tumeric which can help heartburn as long as you don’t overdo it. However none of those things can cure measles, whooping cough or infections, vaccines and antibiotics are pretty much the only things that can. Moving on, there is another common excuse that I honestly lose brain cells over.

Third and finally the most laughable excuse is “vaccines are sinful". I honestly don’t even know how the fuck I can elaborate on this one (yes readers, I swore even though I mentioned that I was going to try to avoid swearing). I am a complete atheist but I am sure that if God didn’t want vaccines, they wouldn’t exist. You can’t fucking pray away the flu, typhoid, rubella, measles or whooping cough…prayer can help but it doesn’t work without the vaccine that works to cure those diseases. God wants you to vaccinate your kids, by refusing to vaccinate them, you are defying his will. I apologize for leaving out other religions but I am trying to stay focused on my topic and just want to get to the goddamn conclusion if that’s alright with you.

Now, we get to the part where I wrap up my rant about anti-vaxxers and where I can hope that I don’t get death threats over it. After all this coronavirus craziness is over, I seriously hope that anti-vaxxers give their goddamn heads a shake. I am sick to death of hearing all these laughable excuses of “vaccines are sinful", “only natural and holistic medicine will keep my kid from being sick” and especially the biggest and most certainly unjustifiable excuse of “vaccines cause autism”. On that note, I am not a certified medical professional nor do I claim to even have gone to medical school. If your kid happens to be allergic to vaccines, then I understand and you can then work it out with your doctor or other medical professionals. I am just your average, run of the mill, autistic Canadian aspiring blogger who happens to be a Sagittarius and wants to share her thoughts on things that are on her mind. Today, I decided to talk about how

In case you were wondering, the image you see on my article, I made it myself on my phone using Ibis Paint. I hope you enjoyed reading and I sincerely hope you enjoy the rest of your day. Sip that coffee and stay fabulous, this is your average run of the mill, fabulous autistic Sagittarius Canadian signing off.