Surprise surprise, her doctorate is in psychology. She works with special ed kids and I'm guessing she's either decided or parents are self-reporting that they're "vaccine injured." 🙄 What an asshole.
"My little Johnny was a perfect student until the medical establishment gave him a learning disability!"
This seems to overlap psychologically with the "my child can do no wrong" crowd, the ones who blame teachers, coaches, librarians, video games, sugar, red dye, gluten, participation trophies, or pretty much anyone or anything except themselves for their child's problems. The common thread is a profound lack of self-awareness.
On the anti-vaccination issue, there's also a hefty dose of misinformation from people who are making money from selling the idea to gullible people, but there's definitely a certain psychological profile who falls for it most often.
I feel like a lot of these parents are also doing the insidious thing of trying to justify that it isn't "their genes" that are responsible. Like having Autism or something in your family is a dirty secret and "taints" their "family line".
Nobody would give two shits if that was the problem. The problem is that their behavior endangers the safety of others and the integrity of society.
I don't just mean people who cannot be vaccinated. Without vaccines, lockdowns like the ones during the covid pandemic would be in effect pretty much all the time. We have functioning vaccines against diseases that are much worse than covid. We got lucky in 2020.
People like to bitch and moan about the inconveniences endured during covid and would use terms like "doom sayers" to insult people who promoted lockdowns and vaccines. Under the guise of "it wasn't that bad".
Yeah, no shit Sherlock. Without lockdowns and vaccines it would've been ten times worse. We actually got relatively scot-free. Huge swaths of the developing world endured millions of deaths.
Anyone with more than two brain cells to run together, who learns about the "Spanish Flu" of 1918-1920, should immediately say "I'm getting vaccinated, I'm wearing a mask and I'm self isolating". 50 million people died. 50 million! We got lucky with COVID because so many people unselfishly did those things.
50 million out of 1.8 billion population. Or 2.78% of the poulaton died.
Today the same death rate for a pandemic would be around 225 million people.
“My parents gambled with my health and that’s ok!”
And "my parents' intellectual weakness put many others with immunological weaknesses at grave risk!"
Her (almost certainly) describing a sibling with autism as being "vaccine-injured" is just so insulting.
Weren't some states instituting book bans for subjects considered "harmful"? This seems like a prime opportunity to twist some poorly written state laws and do some actual good with them.
I'm not sure this book has actually been published in physical media, but I agree.
No I am wrong, you can buy it on Amazon.
Wait for the sequel:
"I live in an iron lung and that's ok!"
And the followup, "I'm blind because measles, and that's ok!"
I have a distant cousin who was totally destroyed by measles. According to her mom, she was 6 years old and a very bright kid, very eager to learn. Her siblings recovered, but she didn’t. I mean, she recovered as far as surviving, but she’s in her late 50s now with the mental capacity of a toddler.
Her family lived in a one room shack deep in Appalachia from the 50s through the 80s. Going to the doctor wasn’t something they did unless they were dying. They managed to get her to the hospital once it became clear she likely wasn’t going to make it.
I met her in the early 2000s and different family members take turns caring for her. She talks but it’s mostly just going with what a person says. “Sheila, I heard you were a millionaire!” “Yeah, yeah. I got millions dollars. Yeah.” “Can I get a few thousand?” “Sure, yeah, sure, a few thousand. Yep. Mmhmmm.”
Her brother used to mess with her at the store her mom worked at. “Hey Shiela, you hate that ugly bastard that just walked in here don’t you?” “Yep. Mmhmm. I hate that ugly bastard.” “Awww Sheila, you hate me and think I’m ugly?” “Noooooooo. Nuh uh. Nooooo!” “Yes you do, now tell him!” “Yep, mmhmm, I do.”
I hate that happened to her.
First time I'm hearing about "vaccine injured" meaning they think a vaccine caused autism or something. When I read the post, with the context, I thought it meant like a physical injury that someone with special needs might suffer if they moved around during a vaccine. It's actually disgusting that this person wrote a story likely about a kid with some form of neurodivergence and called toted them as a "vaccine injured child".
It's from a long debunked paper. Anyone claiming any correlation between vaccines and autism is willfully ignorant at this point.
Not only is it debunked, it was a downright fraudulent paper.
The fact they call vaccination an "important decision" as if it's choosing chemo or so is just so stupid.
It's an important decision in that it's important to decide to not put your child at risk for polio.
WTF is "Gold Moms Choice Award"? The newest warning label?
If the Americans are so keen about banning books, they should really start with this one. Ever thought about "What if books could kill?" - This one can.
It sounds like a bit of an award scam actually - there's a disappointed recipient taking about it here.
I don't think there's a lot of legal stuff around awards - you can pretty much just make one up and give it to things.
If memory serves correctly The Daily Wire invented their own awards just to say their journalism is "Award Winning"
"My parents are complete idiots and that's not OK"
Shannon Kroner is a PSYCHOLOGIST. She wrote a book about vaccines, as a psychologist.
“Research”
"Vaccine-injured"
I realize this is sort of an aside, but the title reminds me of the "children's" book that Colbert put out back when he was doing the Colbert Report.
It's about the adventures of a pole and its many uses. Including by strippers. It's actually surprisingly wholesome.
So I went on Amazon and there it is, sitting at 186 5 star reviews. WTF. Genuine question: is there some way of reporting shit like this to Amazon? I can't see anything obvious.
Bezos doesn't care, he gets money off every sale, be it from fake scam or harmful scam like this "true stories" of "vaccine injured kids"
This stupidity. It never gets old, just like children of vaccination opponents.
what is a vaccine injury? I vaccinated my son with all the required vaccines and he has yet to be sick.
in some countries that is mandatory to be able to send your child to any school.
Gold Mom's Choice Awards®
Ah right, those very famous things. 🤨
I don't understand how intentionally causing harm to others is legal.
Yuck. There should be no way out religious or otherwise for vaccines unless medically unable. just gives people power to wriggle free of commitments they don't want to keep.
I wonder if they are offering a bundle deal along with the sequel to the book about a lady who swallowed a fly titled When Bobby swallowed a little worm.
My favorite part was when he swallowed the ivermectin to kill the worm. The illustration for that page is particularly captivating.
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