Sadly, parents who are finding it difficult to cope with their autistic kids, and would feel better demanding support for it if it wasn't natural, but was done to them by someone else they can get compensation from.
So people with hardly any resources and support put effort into supporting other people claiming false things about their kids.
As it happens, the "gluten causes autism" people eventually cooled down and found out "autistic people can find it harder to deal with stomach issues, so paying particular attention to their diet can be beneficial", so looking for external causes isn't always bad, if you recognise you have an autistic kid and just look at sorting out their environment to make them more comfortable, but the paranoia about vaccines seems a waste of that energy, given the repeated investigation that has been done.
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u/Karpaltunnel83 Jan 31 '25
Fun fact: The doctor that made the "Vaccine causes Autism" claim has been disproven multiple times and even lost his doctorate for it