Answer for question 4248.

[author_by_night]

[Error: unknown template qotd]Autism is not a chronic illness. I'm not saying it can't be severe, I'm not saying it's easy to deal with even when it isn't, but let's stop approaching autism the way Autism "Speaks" does, shall we?

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[ragnarok-08.livejournal.com]

Enough said.

[mollywheezy.livejournal.com]

Vaccinate your kids! Vaccinate adults if they haven't been already! I don't understand the folks who won't get vaccinations. Do they WANT their kids to die? Are they trying to kill others by spreading disease? I grew up in an area with a large Christian Scientist population and there was even a Christian Scientist school but if any child wanted to attend any non-Christian Scientist school then they had to be vaccinated.

[spaciireth.livejournal.com]

Agreed! Though sometimes I wonder about Writer's Block... personal belief has nothing to do with it either way, it either does or doesn't, and it doesn't.

[cloudsinvenice]

I hate that they treat it as just a matter of opinion when we know, scientifically, that vaccines don't cause autism. And indeed, "chronic illness" is a misnomer... come to that, why drag in "other chronic illnesses" at all?