Ban The Sham ‘Vaxxed’ Film

BAN THE SHAM ‘VAXXED’ FILM

The Autistic Collective objects to the screening of the film ‘Vaxxed’, which we believe should have been banned. It perpetrates false understandings of both autism and vaccines.

Andrew Wakefield, the man behind this film, faked his original ‘research’, and has since been struck off the medical register and his study retracted by the Lancet. Intensive studies have failed to find any link between the two.

Meanwhile, serious childhood illnesses have started to climb again, due to lowering of herd immunity, as frightened parents avoid vaccinations. Deaths, epidemics and physical harm have been the result.

The film uses emotional manipulation and distortion of facts to scare and delude people into thinking they are seeing scientific ‘evidence’ that vaccinations cause autism. It selects the worst moments of young autistic children’s lives to imply that this is the constant reality of being autistic.

Worst of all, it implies that even risking death or serious harm is better than being autistic. We object to this unfair, prejudiced, and doom-and-gloom depiction of our lives. We are human beings, with flaws and virtues like all other humans, and are capable of fulfilling, happy lives, with the right support and understanding. Understanding which this film does nothing to encourage - quite the opposite.

One commenter in the media said that parents of autistic kids deserve better than this. So do autistics themselves, old or young.

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