Kentucky Governor deliberately gave his kids chicken pox

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I remember taking the oral polio vaccine when it first came out. I was quite young. My father was carrying me and we stood in a long, long, line...seemingly forever. It was a very big deal and everyone rushed to get the vaccination. Back then, people alive had lived through the polio epidemics; the swimming pools closed, the iron lungs, the crippled children.

I was also vaccinated for small pox. There were no vaccinations for chicken pox, measles, mumps and rubella. I got them all. I don't remember if there were dpt vaccinations, but I know I got tetanus shots.

That's why I advised Crimadella to read up on the polio epidemics of the 1950s, and the heroic efforts to get a vaccine for polio.

This is also proof that "vaccines do not cause autism." Yes, there were long lines for vaccinations when both the Salk (injection) and the Sabin (oral) polio vaccines came out.

If vaccines or their byproducts caused autism, we would have had an autism epidemic on our hands in the mid 50's through early 60s.

I think I got my polio vaccine story wrong. The oral vaccine didn't come out until 1961 (just looked it up), so I must be remembering the Salk vaccine which came out in 1955. I was small enough to be carried in my father's arms and I don't believe my brother was born yet, so I must have been under 4 years old. The injection would also explain the dread I also remember.

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Strangely enough, I didn't get the mumps, chickenpox, or rubella. There was a kid in my class in first grade who had the mumps. He spoke in a muffled way, and had swelling on his face.

All were considered "the usual childhood diseases" back then. Even measles. Nowadays, measles is coming back because of unvaccinated kids. It's usually more serious now than it was then.

Remember those "Rubella Umbrella" commercials?

I don't remember any vaccine commercials. I stopped watching all TV when I was about 10 years old, which would have been right around when you were born, I think. I missed all the TV that you would have watched. (The one exception was Star Trek.)

I actually first learned about autism through a public service commercial when I was nine. At first, I thought they were talking about "artistic" people.

I knew a kid who had nonverbal autism---and I believe they called it that---but, mostly, I was told that he "didn't have enough oxygen in the brain when he was born."

I was diagnosed with autism----but I remember being referred to as being "brain-injured," rather than "autistic."

See what I missed by not watching TV? I have no memory of even hearing about autism before I started working in the developmental disabilities field, so that would have been in my 40s.

My grandfather was the youngest in a family of 9 kids of whom only 4 (including him) survived after the first world war. All my granduncles/aunties died for various reasons between 1910 - 1920 but all from preventable illness.

Having large families was common in the early 20th century to ensure a few make it.

This Kentucky governor's decision not to vaccinate indicates an archaic thought process putting his kids at risk

When I was diagnosed as "different," I was pigeonholed with "hyperactivity." I had to wait till late in life to be properly diagnosed with high functioning autism, only after I recognized a lot of symptoms in my daughter who was diagnosed as autistic. The same doctor who diagnosed my daughter diagnosed me.