This is, of course, utter
. I would argue that @JennyMcCarthy's message that autistic children were "vaccine-injured" harmed families more than anything else. It portrayed autistics as "broken" and not the parents' "real children." 1https://twitter.com/JayGordonMDFAAP/status/1144631840508039173 …
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Quoth Jenny: "Right before his MMR shot, I said to the doctor, 'I have a very bad feeling about this shot. This is the autism shot, isn't it?' And he said, 'No, that is ridiculous. It is a mother's desperate attempt to blame something,' and he swore at me..." 3/
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"..., and then the nurse gave [Evan] the shot," she says. "And I remember going, 'Oh, God, I hope he's right.' And soon thereafter—boom—the soul's gone from his eyes." Seriously,
@JayGordonMDFAAP, do you not remember this? I do. 4/Show this thread -
"The soul's gone from his eyes"? Is that description the "respect" that autistic people "deserve"? 5/
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Let's also not forget,
@JayGordonMDFAAP, that@JennyMcCarthy's antivaccine activism also contributed to the view that the families of children with autism are largely antivaccine when they are not. 6/Show this thread -
No,
@JayGordonMDFAAP.@JennyMcCarthy might have done many things regarding autistic children and their families, but getting them the respect they deserve was definitely not one of them. 7/7Show this thread
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