Autism And Vaccination Reflection

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1. This documentary about autism and vaccinations was very interesting. I believe this video was very biased about the correlation between these two items. They only told the bad side of the story and not the benefits of children receiving the vaccination. For example, when the parents of the autistic children spoke up about their children and the MMR vaccination caused their child to have autism, they never spoke about their other children that had received the vaccination and was perfectly fine. No one parent gave any positive feedback about their children receiving the MMR vaccine.
2. My mother is a special education teacher that deals with autistic children on a regular basis. Due to my background and listening to my mother’s perspective,

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