What if the answer is that vaccines are injurious
and that vaccine injury is not autism?
Before there was an “autism epidemic”, autism was called “childhood schizophrenia”—because it was recognised for decades that the disorder only affected prepubescent children.
In 1933, Howard W. Potter, Assistant Director of New York Psychiatric Institute and Hospital, wrote in the American Journal of Psychiatry, that childhood schizophrenia only affected children “largely in the first decade of life.”
His diagnostic criteria were very specific and did not include any references to developmental delays or assessments of intelligence.
I was one of those children, thirty years later.
When I was five, my parents were pressured to have me institutionalised. They moved us up north instead —to a rural school district with only a couple dozen other families. A good fit for me. A quiet life filled with woods and fields.
A few years earlier two cousins of mine had been institutionalised. They were older than me, brothers. They lived in “care” their whole lives. I never knew them.
How many autistic children in the past were disappeared into psychiatric institutions?
How many other parents shielded their autistic kids from diagnosis and routine institutionalisation?
How many children diagnosed with autism now are actually vaccine- injured?
My mom used to say that I was “autistic as a child” but I “outgrew it”. She said it was as if “you didn’t want to be here”— in the world, she meant. She was right. I didn’t. I remember the feeling well — a “get me out of here!” wild, grasping, desperation. Everything too noisy, piled-up, over-lit, confusing, painful.
But that was just in the human world of behaving, answering correctly, sitting still at the table and having manners.
I spent the first years of my life trying not to feel so much, not to see so much, so that I could fit in. I collected favourite words. Marked with stars as particular favourites in my notebook were “perspicacious” and “specificity”.
I was here before the “epidemic”. I’ve been watching and taking notes.
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