When I talk to parents who choose to delay vaccinating their child or to not vaccinate at all, I find it’s usually a decision rooted in fear. That fear is often fueled by a long-discredited myth that vaccines cause autism. The signs of autism often emerge around the same age a child receives their routine vaccines, but this overlap doesn’t mean one causes the other.

Decades of research have settled this issue: Autism is not caused by anything parents did or didn't do, and it’s certainly not caused by vaccines.

Focusing on medical misinformation doesn't help children with autism. Instead it distracts from the real work of understanding and supporting neurodiversity – and it invites preventable, deadly diseases that were once eradicated back into our communities.

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