I already wrote about how much the performative victimhood of #SaidNoMother parents appalls me. But, as the campaign wore on (and repeated the same tweets and images ad nauseum), more countering was needed: People need to know that this crap is not acceptable.
The #SaidNoMother crew themselves seem unlikely to have epiphanies about doing right by their autistic kids any time soon, as they are mostly vapid white women of a certain class and certain inability to believe that money can't buy happiness. As I am a member of such a census category, it my duty to call out my kind when they embarrass us all in their clueless unexamined privilege: Not only regarding the irony of speaking out about vaccines when they have no experience with vaccine-preventable diseases thanks to growing up in a vaccinated cocoon, but also because they don't seem to realize that not all families have the funding to pursue expensively bogus autism "recovery" pseudoscience. And by their polluting of those autism information waters, they may lead people who don't have financial wiggle room to make choices that endanger their autistic kids' health and well being, as well as their families' economic health.
I am asking #SaidNoMother something. Why is it so many of you claim injury due to metal toxicity and also claim to know how to recover children like ours but yet you report the least improvement in your children and you seem to be the unhappiest parents I have ever met?— Brandi Dalhover (@SpectrumomYeah) April 9, 2018
#SaidNoMother privilege & gullibility, crystalized: It’s expensive to “recover” your child because #autism carpetbaggers target parents of means. They don’t make money off people who can’t afford their snake oil (or who know that #vaccineswork & have nothing to do with #autism). https://t.co/1o7nb5Ofy7— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) April 6, 2018
The #SaidNoMother mob is also shameless in their attempts at shaming. They told outright lies (like nonsensical "sleuthing" into my background?), and one even got her autistic kids' sibling to tell me that I'm mean for "bullying their mom." Disgusting.
It's frustrating to engage with people who are not just vehemently willfully ignorant but have ends-justify-means mindsets, as you can see in the collected tweets below. (Eventually the zealots blocked all their critics, so apologies for any missing tweets that jar threads out of context.)
"Im so glad my mother hates living with me because im autistic" - #saidnoautistic ever.— Tania Grey (@maxriderflies) March 26, 2018
Very common mistake to equate 'regression' at young age to vaccines as seem to occur at similar times. Not enough explanation for what may actually be happening (differences in synaptic pruning theories etc. are less accessible and immediately appealing). Human fallacy 2+2=10 etc— Damian Milton (@milton_damian) March 26, 2018
Yes. And we can replace "spent" with "wasted".— Autvntg (@autvntg) March 26, 2018
This One Big Lie has cost the autism/autistic community so very much and in so many ways, wasted resources and increased stigma/ignorance being the main two.
Yep, given 'neurodiversity' and lack of good evidence, hard to know what is going on, but it is not one effect, nor one trajectory developmentally. One thing for sure though, it ain't vaccines.— Damian Milton (@milton_damian) March 26, 2018
In the case of my child old videos show a) very obvious skill loss/regression from around 2 years b) subtly atypical development from the start. I can see how parents overlook/miss the latter and focus on the former looking for a "cause".— Colm (@colmuacuinn) March 26, 2018
Because these myths about autism as vaccine injury or illness have historically led to a lot of horrific mistreatment of autistic people, rather than to understanding of autism as a complex neurodevelopmental condition.— Emily Paige Ballou (@epballou) March 26, 2018
That's what it has to do with us.
Because It Happened To Us. I "regressed" at age 3. In 1959. 5 years before the MMR was available. How did my parents become autistic? Because they probably were.— Jo Qatana 🐽 (@joqatana) March 26, 2018
I think my socially isolated Autistic child should take up smoking just so that they will have other "freaks" to talk to. #saidnomother (what I actually did during high school to have ppl to talk to) #ActuallyAutistic— Smiles for Miles 📺🐾🐳📚🎶🛶⛵️ (@oldsoulsmiling) March 26, 2018
Listening to actually autistic people rather than #saidnomother fear-mongering and ableist fuckery for the win.— Ren Martinez (@RenTheMusical) March 26, 2018
Also, vaccinate your goddamn kids. https://t.co/HVKAkrJJZ7
A warning, especially to my fellow autistics and other disabled folk: #SaidNoMother is a cesspool of hatred. Stay far, far away.— Marieke Nijkamp (@mariekeyn) March 26, 2018
PS to the people on that hashtag: vaccines don't cause autism, you ignorant liches.
"I want everyone to know embarrassing personal information about about my child so they'll know how much of a martyr I am for putting up with them" #saidnomother unless they are an #autismparent I guess— Dana, seeker of darkness (@Sugarlow23) March 26, 2018
“I want every child to be replaced by kittens” #SaidNoMother— Cassie P (@AngryAmygdala) March 26, 2018
(I just want to drown out the ableist pseudo-vigilantes on this hashtag with pictures of fuzzy kittens) pic.twitter.com/4HzuDxjPj6
You could be teaching the world that autistic lives have value.— S. (@E_c_h_o) March 25, 2018
Instead you tell them we're better off dead. Even your own child.#SaidNoMother, indeed.
I want to use my kids like props so I can virtue-signal and get attention from the other low-info anti-vaccine parents on Facebook #saidnomother #saidnofather #saidnoparent— J. "Merely Part Of The Performance" Kelly (@jkellyca) March 26, 2018
I want my child to contract a preventable illness and endanger the lives of other children and immune compromised people, possibly killing them in the process. #saidnomother— Smiles for Miles 📺🐾🐳📚🎶🛶⛵️ (@oldsoulsmiling) March 26, 2018
Because my son and I are autistic, which makes us neither sick nor broken. I speak, he is still working on spoken & written language We both appreciate people who take our needs for support seriously as we define & express them. We don’t see ourselves as anyone’s tragedy. https://t.co/Q06nnXTYkF— Carol Greenburg (@Aspieadvocate) March 26, 2018
I love it when a bunch of entitled middle class white women vilify my daughter for their own reckless cause because they can’t come to terms with their own lives not going exactly as they expected #SaidNoMother— Megen Amanita (@megenporter) March 26, 2018
Vaccines don't cause autism.— Jenthar the Destroyer, Queen of all Darkness (@albertafarmlife) March 23, 2018
Your genetics do.
You have no one to blame but yourself and your partner.
Stop scaring people away from life-saving vaccines with your ignorance.
"I'd rather my kid be dead than autistic" is the REAL #saidnomother statement.
Ah, #saidnomother, where parents get to ignore their child's inherent right to human dignity by treating them as political toys without their consent, describing them as 'damaged'. That'll totally work out well. </sarc>— Chris von Csefalvay (on partial break for Lent) (@chrisvcsefalvay) March 26, 2018
Hey, #SaidNoMother participants: You didn't lose your kid to autism. You're losing them to your own fucking unwillingness to love or accept your Autistic kid.— (((Jay Edidin))) (@RaeBeta) March 26, 2018
We're. Still. People. We're not props for your fake science or narratives of personal martyrdom.
Another anti-vaxxer tell: unexamined privilege. It is contemptible for one who never experienced or witnessed vaccine-preventable death/disease themselves—thanks to vaccines & herd immunity—to sow lies while, globally, so many kids still get sick & die due to limited vax access. https://t.co/Bevl8BdDx9— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 23, 2018
#SaidNoMother is an anti-vaccine, anti-science, and anti-autistic hashtag being used primarily by white mothers to validate their parental experiences. Their warped perspectives are derived from drawing false conclusions. They are NOT feminist and they stigmatize disability.— feMNistProf (@feMNistProf) March 27, 2018
Now, I'm just a humble viral epidemiologist, but apparently, the MMR #vaccine can give you FLESH. EATING. DIARRHOEA.— Chris von Csefalvay (on partial break for Lent) (@chrisvcsefalvay) March 27, 2018
"I want my child to grow up and post nonsense about my grandchild's 'flesh eating diarrhoea' on the internet," #SaidNoMother. pic.twitter.com/1eVm4ZqIPm
"I would rather trust the testimony of a woman who prides herself on her scientific illiteracy, & puts the word ‘science’ in scare quotes, than the 1000s of doctors & researchers who don’t want my child to die of preventable illness,” #SaidNoMother #vaccineswork #autismacceptance https://t.co/rn2YWXLqoI— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 27, 2018
— Alyzande Renard 🍁🍂 (@alyzande) March 27, 2018
My child did NOT "become" autistic. I have yet to see any valid scientific or medical reason to 'cause' it. It is NOT like a cold or bronchitis! You make it sound nasty & preventable. You also sound pissed you have to 'deal w/ it'. You sound like a parent who wants pity for you!— Felicity (@CamoMom80) March 27, 2018
It's extremely common in the autistic community to seem to "regress" on development. We talk about this all the time. It happens to us as adults too, although less noticeable because we have learned to fake it as adults.— Tracey Rolandelli (@RolandelliDsign) March 27, 2018
I fell for '00s autism/vax fears, so enrolled my son in a regression study at UC Davis MIND Institute. They looked at home videos, & showed me my son’s #autism traits were there all along.— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 27, 2018
Parent recall is unreliable; not ONE of these “regression” claims has ever been verified. https://t.co/Wvs8Sq6cy1
Why are parents seeking some one/thing to blame? Why are you suspect of people motivating you to embrace your son as he is? Don't you think he deserves that? Learning to innerstand Autism by listening to #ActuallyAutistic ppl will only help you and enhance your son's daily life.— Autism Hwy (@AutismHWY) March 27, 2018
Again with the anti-vaxxer greatest hits: “you question my fear-and-misinformation-based testimonials, therefore you must be pharma-funded.”— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 27, 2018
Dude, I *wish* I had some of that sweet pharma lucre so I could actually fund projects & staff instead of limited all-volunteer efforts. https://t.co/quEMIMUGnM
Far too many parents have to pay for Autistic kids’ services out of pocket (*ahem*). This is a social infrastructure fail; it has nothing to do with “vaccine injury” claims.— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 27, 2018
Your insistence on your child’s disability making YOU a victim is purely about privilege & denialism BTW. https://t.co/C42TcLyDtN
Steve Silberman’s #NeuroTribes is a thorough debunking of the misinformed autism “epidemic” notion, &explains how autistic people have always been here. No one should deny more autistic people have been *identified*, however. Note: Photo of handsome dudes:https://t.co/lVzfoIMzMx https://t.co/BtUPwv59h0— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 27, 2018
"I can’t refute the facts or rights issues #actuallyautistic people are forcing me to confront, so I’ll invoke ableism, exemplify the double empathy problem, and belittle disabled people whose communication efforts use so much more energy than mine do."https://t.co/P4Dn85dSC3 https://t.co/J6MRozVI7A— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 27, 2018
Well, if you can't trust a hastily thrown together pamphlet written in comic sans, what can you trust?— Kristyle Solomon (@kristyleTweets) March 27, 2018
"Someone would have said something." They did. Autistics were either the "weird genus" making scientific breakthrus, or the "crazy cousins" who were locked up in the attic.
More like a lot of #actuallyautistic perception. You do not realize the language you choose reveals to many exactly what you think of Autism. So it is an easy correlation to draw. If you disrespect Autism and what it IS...you disrespect an entire culture and community of people.— Autism Hwy (@AutismHWY) March 27, 2018
More like a lot of #actuallyautistic perception. You do not realize the language you choose reveals to many exactly what you think of Autism. So it is an easy correlation to draw. If you disrespect Autism and what it IS...you disrespect an entire culture and community of people.— Autism Hwy (@AutismHWY) March 27, 2018
As an #ActuallyAutistic mom to 2 #ActuallyAutistic sons, I find the entire #SaidNoMother campaign absolutely disgusting, dehumanizing, & ableist. I can’t understand how mothers could be so disparaging about their own child. It literally makes me nauseous.— Michelle (@StopVaxxedLies) March 27, 2018
The autistic population has always been large, it’s just that now it is better diagnosed and identified. Which is good when people get supports earlier, and only bad when anti-vaxxers use the clear results of a diagnostic shift to claim there’s an “autism epidemic.” https://t.co/lhy2fZC6fY— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 27, 2018
Non-verbal Autistics CAN talk. You're just not listening. You're just not looking to communicate the way THEY do. A parent of a deaf child teaches and learns ASL. Dont call them grotesque or unnatural. They adapt to communicate in the way the child can understand.— Tania Grey (@maxriderflies) March 27, 2018
So if your child had any of those delays listed bc they were in a car accident or bc of chemo or a variety of other things, would you describe them that way? Or are you only disgusted by disability when it is blamed on #vaccines #SaidWorstMomEver— Brandi Dalhover (@SpectrumomYeah) March 27, 2018
“I could do without sea lions.”https://t.co/oFQAnPBVs5 https://t.co/NIQ83SjSmf— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 28, 2018
Me too. The way they put down actually autistic people who disagree with them is disgusting too.— HistoryWoman (@HelenRBarton) March 27, 2018
Encephalitis is not autism. I mean, that’s not a controversial statement.— DorotheaBrooke (@heterochromance) March 28, 2018
That’s what settles science-replicated results. Something #AndrewWakefield refuses to do for his followers. So if anything, this narrative helped rational people be even more secure in their decision to #vaccinate. It is also the difference between doctors who trust science.— Brandi Dalhover (@SpectrumomYeah) March 28, 2018
I would be his friend and no one is completely independent. Do you take him around other autistic people? Just because he can speak doesn't mean he's not communicating— 🕷️Anansi Acolyte, Spider Demon Lord, Satanael🕷 (@chromesthesia) March 28, 2018
I know people in their 20s who can't speak. It doesn't make them grotesque.— 🕷️Anansi Acolyte, Spider Demon Lord, Satanael🕷 (@chromesthesia) March 28, 2018
It is because of denialist anti-vax arguments about Hannah Poling that the Vaccine Court Had to issue a formal clarification: The Hannah Poling case “does not afford any support to the notion that vaccinations can contribute to the causation of autism.”https://t.co/gvLyz7OqI4 https://t.co/KTuXtyJvHr— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 28, 2018
Sadly, Anti-vax trutherism means we can never have a rational convo about extremely rare but real vaccine injuries: victims are real but the risk is equal to that of getting struck by lightning. This shouldn’t derail life-saving vax efforts.— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 28, 2018
Also: Encephalopathy is NOT autism. https://t.co/Risqt1rfd5
It is grotesque that people get shamed for not being able to use the toilet, that people who cannot speak do not get intensive AAC support, that people are excluded because they are different and that supported living is not available in every community.— Martine Meijers (@MarTNT) March 28, 2018
Disability is not grotesque. It is a fact of life. That society enables fear and disrespect regarding people with disabilities *is* grotesque. People who need supports deserve those supports. Period. https://t.co/VRjdprIGGf— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 28, 2018
Autistic people often develop skills on different timelines than typically developing kids! Just because we haven't learned something doesn't mean we won't, or that we don't have other, worthwhile capabilities.— Emily Paige Ballou (@epballou) March 28, 2018
The govt took over liability for vaccines bc otherwise the pharma Cos would have stopped manufacturing vaccines due to imperiled profits (so, no, not a fan of Big Pharma).— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 28, 2018
Again, this isn’t evidence of widespread vaccine risk. This is ethical compensation of those RARE victims. https://t.co/M3kc69rZH1
I read and reviewed Jenny McCarthy’s Mother Warriors. She squandered the opportunity to provide real help.— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 28, 2018
"Reading Mother Warriors is like listening to a college sophomore try to recruit campus freshman to Earth-First!-style environmental activism."https://t.co/1neV1xvDLy https://t.co/V0Yto178t0
I suggest you read Neurotribes. And read things written by Temple Grandin and John Elder Robison. Listen to the actually autistic. Conspiracy theories aside it's more important to fight for services than seek out a cause— Sue (@Roselover24) March 28, 2018
— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 28, 2018
— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 28, 2018
When privileged anti-vax parents convinced by charlatans that their autistic kids are damaged claim that disabled activists who counter their toxic autism BS are the ones discriminating against THEM, & resort to ad hominem (personal) attacks because they can’t counter evidence. https://t.co/yZalKZvpnE— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 28, 2018
Written without irony by one of the participants of the #SaidNoMother campaign, when the #autistic people they are actively harming with their ableist, debunked claims about vaccine-autism causation push back with all the weight of legitimate research and basic human decency. https://t.co/PbUCIY0He7— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 28, 2018
Because of anti-vax efforts to scare the public, not because of actual risks.— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 28, 2018
Same reason thimerosal was removed: Not because there was any legitimate risk, but because anti-vax-stoked fears imperiled public confidence about vaccines. Then we had disease outbreaks. Nice work. https://t.co/nSri4n7OVI
You want absolutes from science? That’s not how it works, friend. https://t.co/GCrZ1Xj6RX— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 28, 2018
Controversial histories are by nature complex. It is both OK and desirable to correct the record, to make sure that the most accurate information gets out. That’s not double-speak. That is people who aren’t pushing conspiracy theories having an info-based conversation. https://t.co/GvPFM4mZWi— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 28, 2018
There is such a thing as vaccine injury. It just has NOTHING to do with AUTISM.— Jo Qatana 🐽 (@joqatana) March 28, 2018
I can tell you that I am accountable for 1 of the shifts.— PatriciaPersists🐭🌻🍵 (@pgzwicker) March 28, 2018
Diagnosed bipolar at 15.
Not actually bipolar. I'm Autistic, but that took 25 more years to discover.
Girls get up to 6 diagnoses before they get a correct one of Autism.
My presence here is to counter you, not convince you. Arguing with people about their cultish beliefs is rarely effective. I am providing legitimate information for the people who are listening on the sidelines and wondering if there’s any merit to antivax claims. (Spoiler: no.) https://t.co/dIYQk0ljW5— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 28, 2018
Sigh— jon adams (@soundcube) March 28, 2018
My family is autistic
I’m Bonafide 18/18 characteristics DX in Cambridge at ARC
Just let them bring it on
Again with The baseless accusations in denial of evidence.— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 28, 2018
More importantly: it will never be too late to help your Autistic son live the best life possible, through focusing on the understanding our kids need from their parents/society. Recommend @RespectConnectd for guidance. https://t.co/xMbvxe69Fm
I can because it's logical.— PatriciaPersists🐭🌻🍵 (@pgzwicker) March 28, 2018
I'm not sure how or why it isn't for others but this is just plain old big picture thinking ability + data + superb pattern recognition skills + 1000's of hours of reading/research and interaction with others = logical answer of dx criteria
Because anti-vax arguments & conclusions are based in pseudoscience, the hallmark of which is that it looks & feels “sciencey” to the credulous. This is why the @thinkingautism mission statement includes an #autism pseudoscience-identification checklist:https://t.co/dVEmBRl9BL https://t.co/ABbB7Q5vBO— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 28, 2018
And this is what is so distressing about anti-vaxxer “#autism parents.” Not only do they refuse to acknowledge how to best help & understand their own Autistic kids, but they actively try to recruit other parents into believing autism is “damage” not well-substantiated neurology. https://t.co/a51GUD5DQy— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 28, 2018
People absolutely noticed. They just didn't understand what they were noticing. But autistics have often been mistreated horribly for our differences even if they weren't dx'd correctly.— Emily Paige Ballou (@epballou) March 28, 2018
Yes.. Autism has always been vastly underdiagnosed, especially in women, POC, and low SES communities. Then autistics were known as odd aunts & uncles, eccentric professors, train enthusiasts, & institutionalized cousins. Also, in some cultures #autistic traits aren’t deemed odd. https://t.co/7QwhDBeoaD— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 28, 2018
I never said Hannah Poling didn’t have an autism diagnosis. I cited the vaccine court decision stating definitively that, as in all other claims of vaccine-autism causation, the court and expert determined that vaccines had NOTHING to do with her being autistic. https://t.co/GvPFM4mZWi— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 29, 2018
As @epballou noted, so many autistic people are un- or under-employed. I am an unpaid volunteer. The anti-vax contingent are characteristically fleeced by autism “cure” carpetbaggers. The irony of being accused of being shills... https://t.co/KspaItUJiV— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 29, 2018
Logic and anti-vaxx don't belong in the same sentence.— PatriciaPersists🐭🌻🍵 (@pgzwicker) March 28, 2018
There's no logic to anti-vaxx. That's woo and woo dresses up like logic, but isn't.
Been there, done that - thankfully I'm cured.
Autistic kids are often medically fragile or complex; also being human they get sick too. That doesn’t have anything to do with vaccines, or being autistic—unless parents unwittingly contribute by refusing to understand autism, & therefore stressing kids into compromised health. https://t.co/Hgh5PEgNHE— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 29, 2018
Let me rephrase: Vaccines, being given only a few times in an individual’s lifetime, are not *huge* money-makers for Pharma companies; that’s part of why they tried to exit the vax market. Prescription medications—now THAT is where the real pharma profits is. https://t.co/Y7OJMhK7Kv— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 29, 2018
“I’m going to spend all my energy bewailing my high-support #autistic son’s neurology & blaming vaccines even though that’s a conspiracy theory, instead of using my time to learn how he can live the best life possible, both now & after I’m gone.” #SaidNoMother (No good mother.)— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 25, 2018
neurotypical parents are privileged above autistic people, yes. that's how privilege works.— harrison porg (pacrim 2 spoilers) (@torako_tiger) March 29, 2018
Exactly. Signs of autism are more evident when language and communication start to develop because autism affects those things most. #CommonSense— Brandi Dalhover (@SpectrumomYeah) March 29, 2018
The fact that you can’t accept your child’s autism as natural, or any of us #ActuallyAutistic people as natural, is what is toxic. Something about us is fucked up in your view & that is what is fucked. Learn who we are, not who you think we are. You’re the injured one. Accept us.— John Marble (@JHMarble) March 29, 2018
Mine did that too but it had NOTHING TO DO WITH VACCINES. This is a textbook case of "correlation doesn't equal causation." it's a very common thing with autism kids, vaxxed or NOT.— Anne (@annealexander70) March 29, 2018
Nope.— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 29, 2018
Parent reports of post-vax regression do not outweigh systematic studies analyzing & debunking those anecdotes using observable, quantified, systematic analysis according to ethics-board-approved guidelines. Even when pseudoscientists use sciencey-looking charts & graphs. https://t.co/3CX3JUnKXw
It’s important to understand how “vaccine-#autism misinformation hurts the amazing people in the autistic communities in general, and people like my wonderful, happy, #autistic son specifically.”https://t.co/a6JL2ifK9v#SaidNoMother #VaccinesWork #SaidNoFather— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 29, 2018
#Autistic people are offended when asked if they think vaccines cause #autism not just because the science doesn't support the link but because it dismisses their humanity.#SaidNoMother #SaidNoFather#VaccinesWork— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 29, 2018
Non-Autistic people must remember: #autistic people take part in #autism conversations, read what is written, & hear everything said in their presence. That makes it especially nasty & gauche to make the absurd claim that autism is “vaccine injury."#VaccinesWork #SaidNoMother— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 29, 2018
Time to turn the #SaidNoMother denialists' responses into a drinking game:— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 29, 2018
“You Pharma shill!”: DRINK
“But Hannah Poling”: DRINK
“Vaccines cause #autism bc conspiracy theories & anecdotes trump evidence:" DRINK
Ad hominem attack: DRINK
“No, YOU must disprove my BS claim”: DRINK https://t.co/51jEWCaaJE
What adorable little coffins. #saidnomother #diptheria #vaccineswork #vaccinessavelives… https://t.co/FEAHGN9uqT— RtAVM (@RtAVM) March 29, 2018
I’m open about once having bought into autism pseudoscience & anti-vax fear & disinfo, because other parents need to know that recovery from being scared/misinformed is not only possible but preferable. Short version here, longer version in #NeuroTribes:https://t.co/e1HkMCD0WJ https://t.co/JYl2pr7gbD— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 29, 2018
It is too early to play the #SaidNoMother drinking game, so here’s info on why Hannah Poling has an autism diagnosis but how vaccines had nada to do with it:https://t.co/gvLyz7wPju— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 29, 2018
An investigative journalist on how VAERS/Vaccine court actually works: https://t.co/wRYjvm8brI https://t.co/SSi7u9KiOj
So you know: autism is #autism. #Autistic people often have co-occurring conditions, & being human can have any trait/condition other humans have.— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 29, 2018
We need more/better research into those co-occurring condtions though, for autistic/family QOL purposes: https://t.co/ipO6wbvMN6 https://t.co/0clC9Ra0BQ
I am countering your disinformation, not trying to convince you.— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 29, 2018
You can disagree with facts and expert resources all you like; your conspiracy theory approach alters no reality except your own. https://t.co/Yv5kuLiu6o
Sigh. Yet if I suddenly said, “you’re right, science is wrong, vaccines DO cause autism” you would see that as an epiphany not a flip.— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 29, 2018
All the work I do is to improve the well-being, quality of life, & acceptance of my Autistic son & his peeps. I have no other agenda/conflicts. https://t.co/SYIwVcG8oM
Sigh. Yet if I suddenly said, “you’re right, science is wrong, vaccines DO cause autism” you would see that as an epiphany not a flip.— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 29, 2018
All the work I do is to improve the well-being, quality of life, & acceptance of my Autistic son & his peeps. I have no other agenda/conflicts. https://t.co/SYIwVcG8oM
When we say “there is NO evidence linking vaccines to autism” without adding “and fear of #autism hurts #autistic people,” we’re actually contributing to negative stereotypes about autism & autistic people, rather than furthering acceptance and inclusion:https://t.co/johwaa7PZG— Thinking Person's Guide To Autism (@thinkingautism) March 29, 2018
That "something" being engagement with better research, data, the Wakefield study being uncovered as a fraud from beginning to end, and increasing familiarity with other autistic people.— Emily Paige Ballou (@epballou) March 29, 2018
This is a story she's told repeatedly; it's not a deep dark mystery.
It’s not about winning, when engaging with anti-vaxxers in public spaces. Ppl who fall for cultish anti-vax mindsets are scared, credulous, straw-graspers, & reflexively entrenched.— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 29, 2018
It’s about providing evidence-based, reliable information to counter/negate their disinformation. https://t.co/PUFAE3GaUv
Autism can be caused by de novo genetic mutations. Less commonly than by inherited ones, but it can. So you don't HAVE to have had autism in your family.— Emily Paige Ballou (@epballou) March 29, 2018
But taking a closer look at family history may reveal more than you think...
Also many kids have challenges like these, AND precocious abilities like early reading. It...doesn't sound "very different" at all. Dramatic mismatches of abilities are very common in autistic people. Superficially very different presentations can stem from the same core trait.— Emily Paige Ballou (@epballou) March 29, 2018
Autistic people have different “styles” because they have different genetic combinations, being a huge, diverse human population. Being autistic is like being female, gay, Black, Jewish—one identify of many; autistic people exemplify infinite diversity in infinite combinations. https://t.co/ywkuwFjMwW— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 29, 2018
— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 29, 2018
— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 29, 2018
Again, there are de novo mutations linked to autism.— Emily Paige Ballou (@epballou) March 29, 2018
The "different autisms" line is widely used to try to divide autistic people from each other in ways that we tend to resent.
I mean, this is probably the case. They haven't found one "autism gene," b/c they've found thousands. Their effects would be expected to interact with and modulate each other's in a whole constellation of ways.— Emily Paige Ballou (@epballou) March 29, 2018
Kim Peek, on of the Rainman models, wasn’t autistic, though he was a savant. And he was *born* with several brain formation irregularities. (More info in NeuroTribes.)— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 29, 2018
Those incredibly rare vaccine injuries are not in any way related to autism. https://t.co/VBag5ccVGF
Complete strangers can certainly tell you that it is unreasonable to claim your child’s #autism is a vaccine injury, when scientists have reviewed millions of similar parent reports, yet were never able to validate a single case. That is how evidence-based engagement works. https://t.co/3MGkN3rq5M— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 29, 2018
Absolutely.— Emily Paige Ballou (@epballou) March 29, 2018
But "you have a totally different autism from this person based on my blunt and superficial assessment of surface traits w/ no understanding of core processing differences so your culture, human rights, medical ethics have nothing to do with each other" isn't that.
There probably are environmental *influences,* in the sense of every aspect of our environment is interacting w/ our genes all the time.— Emily Paige Ballou (@epballou) March 29, 2018
But no, there are not really isolated environmental triggers of autism.
I am grateful to the UC Davis Mind Institute for the work they’ve done on autism & regression, & infant sibling studies.— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 29, 2018
However, the org was founded by curebie parents, and so still too often features highly questionable “environmental causation” and epigenetics research. https://t.co/9j7T3emreX
This is a couple years old. Current estimates of autism heritability (the variance in the trait attributable to inherited factors) are up to 87-95%.— Emily Paige Ballou (@epballou) March 29, 2018
Again, with the anti-vaxxer ignorance of their own movement's history.— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 29, 2018
Antivax-stoked hysteria led to environmental causation dominating autism research for the better part of the last 20 years; Researchers have largely concluded autism is inborn. So much wasted money/time. https://t.co/ZAxkRF6APE
At least anti-vaxxers are consistent: “I can’t counter your evidence-based claims, so I’ll just pull some insupportable accusations out of my butt.”— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 29, 2018
The claims below mean at least three drinks by the rules of the #SaidNoMother drinking game? I’ll be doing shots of ... water. https://t.co/V3TufxyRXf
It is depressing, dealing with people who choose to endanger their #autistic kids via “injury” anti-vax BS, instead of doing everything they can to understand #autism & best practices for parenting those kids (esp. those w/co-occurring health issues). Occasional levity is a balm. https://t.co/2Nb0TghTq4— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 29, 2018
Autism is how one’s brain works; Autistic people are always going to be autistic. With proper supports & understanding, Autistic lives are easier—but most “EI” is about PTSD-causing normalization, not support. Autistic people often do well despite, not bc of, early intervention. https://t.co/d1KfCFI7qc— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 29, 2018
This IS anecdotal, but with our son, the signs were there and we chose to ignore some of them because even though we had some professional experience with Autism, we still were largely ignorant and had biases to overcome.— Chris Chan (@tchrischan) March 29, 2018
It's *really* easy. A lot of parents have trouble even considering that their child's rapid development and their vaccination schedules might only be a coincidence. There's too much confirmation bias.— Chris Chan (@tchrischan) March 29, 2018
Or social/developmental demands on an autistic kid's capabilities have caught up with them. Their difficulty is real, and at least some of its suddenness is real, but again, timing with vaccination is largely coincidental. /2— Emily Paige Ballou (@epballou) March 29, 2018
Here's a scientific article on the diagnostic reclassification from Mental Retardation to Autism, which alone accounts for 26% of the increase (excluding all other sources of diagnosis reclassification in people without intellectual disability): https://t.co/fTxgXKSNmJ— Lissanna (@restokin) March 29, 2018
Here's another scientific article finding that at least 60% of the increase in one country was due to changes in reporting practices: https://t.co/PyasHG1KXF— Lissanna (@restokin) March 29, 2018
No, you’re toxic to our children, who are who they were meant to be. They are not damaged, they are not injured, and they aren’t suffering until they discover people who treat them as such. And it’s even sadder when it’s their parent.— Megen Amanita (@megenporter) March 29, 2018
I don't get this idea that changing your mind when presented with evidence that something is incorrect is a bad thing.— Kristi Pritchard (@KristiPritchard) March 29, 2018
No. #saidnomother is selfish, arrogant moms who don’t accept their children as the wonderful humans they are. They refer to kids in horrendous and degrading terms. It’s disgusting.— Katie (@katieicunurse) March 29, 2018
your child didn't "regress into autism" because of vaccines. your child was autistic already but too young for you to have recognized it yet. the vaccines just let your children survive long enough for them to grow into who they are.— ch(aud) gadya (@audendum) March 24, 2018
#saidnomother but #saidthisautistic
Please include messages of #autism understanding & acceptance into your #SaidNoMother countering. If these attitudes become commonplace, new parents will ideally have one less irrational fear interfering with good vax choices for their kids: https://t.co/a6JL2ifK9v #vaccineswork— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 30, 2018
Where can you find good #autism acceptance & understanding info, as part of countering #SaidNoMother autism/vax disinfo? We trust @autselfadvocacy, @NOSeditorial, @autism_women, @wearelikeyrkid, @RespectConnectd, @M_Kelter, @UnstrangeMind, @epballou @phineasfrogg, #NeuroTribes.— Thinking Person's Guide To Autism (@thinkingautism) March 30, 2018
Countering #SaidNoMother will help! I know bc of personal experience: it became increasingly difficult for me to rail against vaccines when the people & resources I most respected were constantly posting info that caused me to question my fear-based opinions on vaccines & autism.— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 30, 2018
I am so sad for your very alive #autistic son, whom you refuse to accept & support, & also your clueless anti-vax privilege in never having experienced the measles encephalitis that killed Roald Dahl’s daughter—due to your growing up in a vaccinated herd: https://t.co/ITz7A3UdOe https://t.co/5fjEC10TUY— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 30, 2018
Something you may not have considered: intellectual-disability-based slurs like “idiot” are hurtful. People with intellectual disabilities are on Twitter & reading what you write, but even if they weren’t here’s why you should think twice, @NOSeditorial: https://t.co/XNW19vLjtk https://t.co/HxqrLLHUc8— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 30, 2018
Remember, I am also the parent of a high-support handsome Autistic son. And I know what a difference it makes when you combine #autism understanding/acceptance with your love, like determining the sensory/medical issues behind self-injury instead of publicly complaining about it. https://t.co/jaKGE1v5FW— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 30, 2018
Changing a position on something when presented with more evidence is not only not suspicious, it's *smart*. That's how everyone, both laypeople and scientists, learn more abt the world. It's only when you are closed off to real science & lean on myths that there is a problem.— Kristyle Solomon (@kristyleTweets) March 30, 2018
Spare me the unexamined privilege of #SaidNoMother claims of victimhood. #Autistic people have been consistently bullied, institutionalized, subjected to PTSD (or worse) via shock/ normalization treatments. And when one of them kills their kids, the rest “understand.” Disgusting. https://t.co/EkR6InEySl— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 30, 2018
Spare me the unexamined privilege of #SaidNoMother claims of victimhood. #Autistic people have been consistently bullied, institutionalized, subjected to PTSD (or worse) via shock/ normalization treatments. And when one of them kills their kids, the rest “understand.” Disgusting. https://t.co/EkR6InEySl— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 30, 2018
Right. Because mothers supporting other mothers no matter what ableist, filicide-enabling attitudes they hold is so much more important than mothers helping other moms understand & support their #autistic kids better, so those kids will be happier and then those moms will, too. https://t.co/pLr02cjdQF— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 30, 2018
The #SaidNoMother campaign will save exactly zero kids from vaccine-related suffering because #autism is not a disease, & autistic people mostly suffer from lack of family/social understanding & accommodation.— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 30, 2018
Vaccine risks are literally 1 in a million: https://t.co/XqOrUVodI7 https://t.co/29Tlfoi9E0
Also, vaccines have nothing to do with #autism. I keep forgetting this hard, documented fact is “debated” by #SaidNoMother anti-vaxxers & their ilk and so has to be reiterated constantly. https://t.co/Qh411osZVu— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 31, 2018
Parenthood is supposed to be about putting your kids first. Yet when #SaidNoMother anti-vaxxers invoke pseudoscience & ableism to make their kids’ disabilities all about the parents’ “suffering,” their critics are “c**t”s. Welcome to the Upside-Down of #autism martyr parents. https://t.co/NHiAKChdl1— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 31, 2018
I do too. Learning from #actuallyautistic people has been so helpful for my son. As has acceptance. I now recognise my frustration isn't with him, it's with the systems that don't adequately support him and recognise his needs.— Kristi Pritchard (@KristiPritchard) March 31, 2018
This should be spread in april to remember the autistics and disabled people that lost their lives due to caretakers. https://t.co/p3sFgzaPM9— Marius Davrie (@MariusDavrie) March 31, 2018
This should be spread in april to remember the autistics and disabled people that lost their lives due to caretakers. https://t.co/p3sFgzaPM9— Marius Davrie (@MariusDavrie) March 31, 2018
"Everyone has their own way of doing things. The way Neurodivergent people get from A to B in the world is a lot different than the way neurotypical (NT) people do it.” #Autistic advice #SaidNoMother anti-vax martyr parents would be happier if they’d heed:https://t.co/XqOrUVodI7— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 31, 2018
"The researchers' conclusion, after reviewing my son's infant, toddler, & preschool-age videos, was that he did not regress or react to vaccines, but rather that he followed a typical #autistic path of gaining skills & abilities unevenly.”https://t.co/e1HkMCD0WJ #SaidNoMother— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 31, 2018
"Analysis of 10 studies involving more than 1.2 million children reaffirms that vaccines don’t cause autism,” despite bogus #SaidNoMother memes.— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 31, 2018
Also, #autistic people deserve love & respect as they are. Using them as fear-mongering props is shameful. https://t.co/V1rDIgVYhi
CW for #SaidNoMother-style ableism.— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 31, 2018
“I’m chained to this denigrating, unpaid forced labor with no tangible reward for all my sacrifice.” This is the kind of BS “#Autism martyr parents” spew, & #ElmoMom #WhitneyEllenby of #AutismUncensored specifically:https://t.co/xvJKQnXuIg
"Measles is one of the leading causes of death among young children even though a safe and cost-effective vaccine is available.— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) March 31, 2018
In 2016, there were 89K measles deaths globally—marking the first year measles deaths have fallen below 100K per year.” Per @WHOhttps://t.co/nG5ZaFRUHP https://t.co/Qgc8JFl9ti
How dangerously absurd are #SaidNoMother claims? They say measles is no big deal, but "During 2000-2016, measles vaccination prevented an estimated 20.4 million deaths.” Mostly in developing, low SES communities privileged anti-vaxxers don’t acknowledge:https://t.co/mJfXa67fgS https://t.co/mlwrmVyWY6— Thinking Person's Guide To Autism (@thinkingautism) March 31, 2018
The children are not being helped when their parents blame #vaccines for their autism, allergies, and other things vaccines don't cause. Sometimes it's even an excuse to subject them to untested, potentially abusive or harmful treatments. #saidnomother helps no child.— (((Dorit Reiss))) (@doritmi) March 31, 2018
WE ARE NORMAL. If you can’t accept us autistic people as a natural variation in the human condition, then that’s your unexamined bigotry, your fears, and your shit to work through. Go work on that and good luck. Autistic people don’t exist for your abuse. #AutismAcceptance— John Marble (@JHMarble) March 31, 2018
#saidnomother is about Mommy making everything about HER and publicly disparaging her child. The things they say about human children is disgusting. It’s a disgrace and verbally abusive.— Katie (@katieicunurse) March 31, 2018
Autistic people are really tired of taking an endless stream of ignorance and abuse by people like you. We’ve lived this life. You haven’t. To continue pushing your self-serving ignorance in the face of autistic people & scientific consensus is bigotry. We can speak ourselves.— John Marble (@JHMarble) March 31, 2018
I hope your son is OK, as I have been there.— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) April 1, 2018
I specifically said, several times, that we need more research into why autistic ppl have a higher rate of epilepsy. Autistic people tend to want this too.
That’s separate from spreading lies about autism being caused by vaccines. https://t.co/Wr3Rtg4o0x
BROUGHT IN HER DAUGHTER FFSYou are an awesome daughter for backing up your mom. However, she is spreading misinformation about vaccines causing autism, which is not true. https://t.co/i1d7VZ7SDQ— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) April 1, 2018
You are an awesome daughter for backing up your mom. However, she is spreading misinformation about vaccines causing autism, which is not true. https://t.co/i1d7VZ7SDQ— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) April 1, 2018
I reiterated several times that Hannah Poling does have an autism diagnosis, but that the vaccine court ruled that vaccines had nothing to do with it. Emphatically.— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) April 1, 2018
I’m countering your disinformation, because it hurts my son, your son, & autistic people. That’s not attacking. https://t.co/1GHeSTRbe4
What keeps me up at night is fretting over the #autistic kids & adults who are not getting the services and supports they need, the way the need it. Anti-vax disinformation & ableism like yours makes that uphill awareness & acceptance battle even harder. https://t.co/TuDBfllBz8— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) April 1, 2018
There's a reason my mother didn't have to worry I'd get polio and die like some of her classmates did, or have post polio syndrome like she did. And pre-vax Mom was more Autistic than I am...— SplendidColors (@Splendid_Colors) April 1, 2018
Yet another example of an anti-vax parent denying autistic people’s agency. As if. https://t.co/kn3KzAordp— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) April 1, 2018
Literally, and_kell, you just said you'd share private information about your son just to prove a point. YOU are the danger to your child.— Solveig ⚧ - Autistic Acceptance Worldwide (@autisticb4mmr) April 1, 2018
Sure it did Dianne. Although it was not formally recognised until latterly, those of us who are scholars of the medical literature know that descriptions of autistic individuals go back hundreds of years.— Carl Smythe #FBPE (@carlsmythe) March 31, 2018
Most people don't know and are not interested in antivaccine campaign like #saidnomother or #saidnomotherever, in part given the movement's history of saying things that aren't true.— (((Dorit Reiss))) (@doritmi) April 1, 2018
Three of these are moms of children with #autism, which #vaccines don't cause. I agree they probably believe otherwise, but like the rest of the #saidnomother campaign they are not speaking truth. They work to scare people from protecting children from disease. Bad cause.— (((Dorit Reiss))) (@doritmi) April 1, 2018
Gratitude is a troubling reaction to a campaign targeted at putting children at risk of diseases and dehumanizing people with #autism, as #saidnomother is.— (((Dorit Reiss))) (@doritmi) April 1, 2018
Evidently, key to an antivaxxer's #saidnomother meme is a glowy picture of herself or exploitative one of a child, or both, along with a wordy quote urging fictitious claims. Which pretty much sums up the engine that drives this entire movement. Selfish, exploitative, false.— Emily '2018 Had Best Step Up' Willingham🏁 (@ejwillingham) March 31, 2018
Autism is genetic. It is not a disease. You don't catch it or develop it. A person is or is not autistic. It is part of how they're born.— Merissa King (@KittenofMetal) April 1, 2018
No, but it is far more likely than autism being caused by it. I have a cousin who is vaccine injured. They exist. Autism just isn't one of them.— Merissa King (@KittenofMetal) April 1, 2018
Her parents have even admitted that there are a plethora of variables and no concrete data to prove that her autism was not already there before the vaccines.— Merissa King (@KittenofMetal) April 1, 2018
Preceded her diagnosis, not her autism. Many symptoms are shared. It's possible that her parents didn't notice the symptoms of her autism/ they were exacerbated by the encephalopathy, but it did not cause her autism.— Merissa King (@KittenofMetal) April 1, 2018
Pre-vax, measles-related cases per year, 1956 - 60 averages: 450 deaths, 150,000 patients had respiratory complications, 4000 patients had encephalitis with a high risk of neurological sequelae and death, 48,000 hospitalized.https://t.co/ByD0vpc3Ya— Autvntg (@autvntg) April 1, 2018
"Instead of learning how to accept and support my #autistic child so they can live the best life possible, I’m going to ignore all reasonable medical advice and “treat” them with bleach enemas that actually WILL make them sick," #SaidNoMother:https://t.co/FkRJSjGyzD— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) April 1, 2018
"Revelations about presuming competence, human dignity […] apply to everyone. They are the most important for the kids who really do have ID, who really can’t read or use full sentences & who really do need extensive support.” @JustStimming:https://t.co/SNJwPw6QWD #SaidNoMother— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) April 1, 2018
I don’t think I’ll ever understand this notion of “losing [my] kid to autism” anymore than I can understand the idea of of losing myself to my own Autism. My diagnosis brought my whole history into focus for me, just as his diagnosis helped me get who he has always been. https://t.co/4NUWIXL13O— Carol Greenburg (@Aspieadvocate) April 1, 2018
#saidnomother #saidnofather People who exploit their disabled kids to push dangerous antivaccine propaganda are gross. #ableism #provaccines— A. F. B. V. (@BeAffirmed) April 1, 2018
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— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) April 2, 2018
When abuse-enabling #SaidNoMother autism martyr parents see everything through the lens of their self-appointed victimhood, while accusing people who defend #autistic rights of being “not really autistic," while *simultaneously* stigmatizing autistic “deficits.” How charming. https://t.co/M7jjZg8YRS
Reminding the world that we and all Autistics are human beings is not abusing anyone. Some people need to stop playing king of victim mountain, using autistic people in their lives as game markers.— Maxfield Sparrow (@UnstrangeMind) April 2, 2018
Happy #WAAD to all you “fanatical provaxxers,” Autistic or not (or undiagnosed) who care so much about children’s health, defending #Autistic humanity, & countering dangerous #autism pseudoscience!— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) April 2, 2018
I hope #saidnomother folks eventually learn to accept their autistic kids too. https://t.co/bcMotjyPKG
I'm seriously disgusted by anivaxxers and the #SaidNoMother tweets. How can a bunch of people actively work to not vaccinate their kids, putting other kids in danger, and then wanna act like vaccines cause autism?— Giorgio Darmani (@HordeBoyRiot_) April 2, 2018
Is this the dark ages? Should I watch out for plagues of locusts
Your children's existence disgusts you so much that you latch on to conspiracy theories peddled by proven grifters because it gives you someone to *blame* for it. I hope you see the light one day, for their sake. But until that day, I see no value in continuing dialogue.— Dagoth Ur welcomes you, Jack, to your Nazi website (@maruhkati) April 2, 2018
Parents, if you don't want to traumatize & alienate your #autistic kids, learn how to recognize harmful writing about #autism so you can avoid repeating these mistakes. Here are four examples of the kinds of writing to avoid: https://t.co/QjekXrpdpb #WAAD #SaidNoMother #WAAD2018— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) April 2, 2018
How can you honor autistic people on #WorldAutismAcceptanceDay: “#Autistic people like my son deserve the love & respect that come with acceptance, not merely acknowledgment that #autism exists. Awareness is passive. Acceptance is a choice."https://t.co/wlARhNv4EL #SaidNoMother— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) April 2, 2018
That is a strange comment. I will point out that thanks to anti-vaccine misinformation Italy is going through a measles outbreak in which people, including babies, are hospitalized and dying. That is the result of anti-vaccine efforts like #saidnomother.— (((Dorit Reiss))) (@doritmi) April 3, 2018
Discovered the #saidnomother hashtag yesterday. I am disgusted. #VaccinesWork and I love my #autistic sister. Vaccines didn’t make her how she is, and she has nothing to be ashamed of, either.— Ali Kat (@nerdc0re84) April 3, 2018
— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) April 3, 2018
The #saidnomother hashtag serves as a harsh reminder of— Doc Bastard (@DocBastard) March 29, 2018
1) just how pervasive scientific illiteracy is,
2) how vitriolic and unaccepting these mothers are, and
3) how far we still need to go to educate people that #VaccinesDontCauseAutism.
Dear #saidnomother. Vaccines help people, and are good for you. Smallpox, polio, and other diseases are not made up. Also, Smallpox was eradicated because of a very successful vaccination campaign, proving herd immunity works. If your kid has Autism, they were born with it.— A'vian S'thari (@InkyFinn) April 4, 2018
Read a vaccine insert. Then remember they are written to inform doctors, not terrify laypeople. Then remember that they list reported, not verified vaccine reactions. Then rest assured that #VaccinesWork, despite #SaidNoMother Dunning-Kruger alarmists (you can look that up, too). https://t.co/oxMieMBZ5k— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) April 4, 2018
Read a vaccine insert. Then remember they are written to inform doctors, not terrify laypeople. Then remember that they list reported, not verified vaccine reactions. Then rest assured that #VaccinesWork, despite #SaidNoMother Dunning-Kruger alarmists (you can look that up, too). https://t.co/oxMieMBZ5k— Shannon Rosa (@shannonrosa) April 4, 2018
Would a Doctor Ever Say These Things About #Vaccines? https://t.co/dm6V1hmFN4 via @wordpressdotcom @AboutPediatrics #saidnomother— (((Dorit Reiss))) (@doritmi) April 6, 2018
Retweeted UN Geneva (@UNGeneva):— Mark Harbison (@HarbisonRotary) April 8, 2018
Vaccines protect against 26 diseases.
Vaccines save lives.#VaccinesWork.
Find out more from @WHO : https://t.co/dxjn7N4bxU pic.twitter.com/jEItqajg4Q https://t.co/dxjn7N4bxU
Would a Doctor Ever Say These Things About #Vaccines? https://t.co/dm6V1hmFN4 via @wordpressdotcom @AboutPediatrics #saidnomother— (((Dorit Reiss))) (@doritmi) April 6, 2018
