The Real Reason the White House Is Drafting an Executive Order Linking Vaccines and Autism

The Real Truth About Vaccines

There is only one reason that the White House is drafting an executive order about vaccines and autism.

Can you guess what it is?

The Real Reason the White House Is Drafting an Executive Order Linking Vaccines and Autism

Sure, maybe it is because Donald Trump has become obsessed with the idea of finding a cure for autism.

“Recent reporting indicates that the White House’s continued effort to forge a false connection between vaccines and autism is coming from Trump directly. The octogenarian reportedly wants to be remembered as the president who cured autism and believes he can achieve that by scaling back vaccines, according to reporting by The Wall Street Journal.”

Report: White House drafting executive order linking vaccines and autism

That’s not the whole answer though.

Donald Trump and RFK, Jr want vaccines to be associated with autism.

Donald Trump and RFK, Jr need vaccines to be associated with autism.

It is part of the MAHA mind set of a vaccine injury epidemic.

But mostly, it is because they refuse to consider anything else that might be responsible for the increased number of children and adults getting diagnosed with autism, like the simple fact that:

• laws in the 1950s and 1960s improved educational access for disabled students, which was important as they started to move them out of institutions

• the Education for All Handicapped Children Act in 1975 stated that children with disabilities could no longer be excluded from school - which is why we didn’t see autistic kids in school before this time!

• changes in DSM criteria, which went from labeling children with autism as having childhood schizophrenia (1952) and including just three essential features of infantile autism (DSM-III 1980) to adding PDD-NOS (1987) and more subtypes and symptoms to the autism diagnosis category in DSM-IV (1994) and V (2013). This is important! Many of the autistic children today would not have been diagnosed in 1980 because they would not have met DSM-III criteria!!!

• the IDEA, in 1990, included autism as a separate disability, making it a little easier to get services - and as it became easier to get services, it increased the reason for people to get a diagnosis for their kids!

• the amending of the IDEA in 1997, with an emphasis on access to the general curriculum and giving states the authority to expand the “developmental delay” definition to also include students up to age nine

• more screening for autism, with an emphasis on early recognition, formalized in a 2007 AAP policy statement that all toddlers be screened for autism at 18 and 24 months

Which, all together, led to increased awareness and better recognition of autistic children among both parents and health care providers.

And autistic adults, a lost generation that were missed when diagnostic criteria was overly strict before the 1980s.

With new outbreaks in Delaware and Pennsylvania, we are now up to 2,501 measles cases this year, the most in 35 years.

All of whom will be likely be hurt even more by Donald Trump’s executive order, if he actually does try to say that vaccines are associated with autism.

As will everyone else, as it will risk increasing vaccine hesitancy even more, even as measles cases are surging.

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