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The reason vaccines aren't linked to autism isn't because the science has "disproven" a connection.

The claim that they couldn't cause autism is extremely dismissive of thousands of published scientific studies from around the globe.

You can review every study which's found "no association between vaccines and autism" and you'll quickly realize the conclusions are all based on watered down data, with no comparisons to entirely unvaccinated populations, and not one of them goes beyond statistics of occurrence to investigate the biological mechanisms.

Not one of the studies attempts to examine what actually happens inside the body, how immune activation, metals or mitochondrial collapse could rewire a developing brain. They don't even try to disprove any mechanisms, they just ignore their existence entirely.

Not one of them investigates the actual biological pathways which explain how vaccines could (can) cause autism - they just use population-level statistics to claim that vaccines couldn't possibly cause autism since there isn't a strong enough statistical association - not because a mechanistic pathway has been disproven.

But we know the biological pathways exist. The neuroscience is not ambiguous.

Cytokine storms, mitochondrial dysfunction, and neuroinflammation are all well-established disruptors of early brain development. We know these things destabilize signaling.

We know they force the brain to reroute energy into crisis formation, not coherent architecture. But instead of investigate that, we’ve been trained, culturally, emotionally, institutionally, to defend vaccines without pause - even when the timeline between shot and regression is immediate, visible and reproducible.

We've even been conditioned to crucify any doctor or scientist that even begins to look into these known biological pathways and their implications.

We’ve been convinced to accept that our babies were born broken, that our DNA is inherently defective, that immune systems can just randomly fail and turn on themselves - rather than confront the possibility that they may have been broken by as a result of a harmful and risky intervention.

But what if something external... something repeated injected, something inflammatory... is traumatizing fragile neuroimmune systems?

Don't we have a right to make sure that's not even a possibility?


Reviewing the Biological Pathway

Over reactive immune responses can result in excessive neuroinflammation mediated by cytokines (like IL-6, TNF-α, interferons) which cross the blood-brain barrier and disrupt normal neuronal signaling.

When an immune response is triggered within the brain, it results in a massive amount of electricity and energy becoming concentrated in the brain (when an immune over reaction occurs from a disregulated or artificially induced response, it can cause febrile seizures).

If the brain lacks sufficient pre-existing neural architecture to regulate or dissipate this excitation, it's forced to create new emergency neuronal pathways rapidly. But these pathways are not formed through gradual sensory learning or experience, there made under duress and in the context of inflammatory trauma.

This can cause the baby's brain lack the integrative context required for coherent cognitive development. This forces the brain to operate through the trauma circuits instead of gradually build upon neural pathways that make sense. This limits their ability to interpret the external world within proper context.


Think of it like when you're born, your brain is a clean slate.

And every experience, sensation, perception is encoded into the brain as a neural pathway. The more frequent that experience occurs, the more reinforced and solidified that neuronal path becomes. Every new experience is then processed and integrated into the brain by comparison to the existing network of pathways.

Every new perception is given context by comparing it to the old, which allows perception to gain meaning through contextual reference. When the body triggers a natural controlled immune response, the brain knows how to contextualize the activity.

When an immune overreaction occurs too early in life, like when a cytokine storm occurs, it can force the formation of aberrant and overly rigid neural pathways to become somewhat 'scarred' into the brain. These are created not through lived experience but through a biological trauma response. They carry no context or meaning.

Now, since the infant likely doesn't have any well-established experiential neural networks yet, these trauma-encoded pathways become the brain’s default operating system. The child grows up and is forced to put all new experiences into context with neuronal pathways that are meaningless.

They're forced to navigate and understand the world through networks that were not built upon continuous expanding interpretation, but hardwired as an emergency response to extreme trauma.

Imagine arriving on an island and immediately paving highways across it at random, before exploring or anything. So now everything else that is developed on that island is done in constrain to these arbitrarily built highways.

In the same way, if the developing brain’s foundational circuitry is built around a traumatic, decontextualized immune event, the entire structure of sense-making is compromised. The child doesn’t grow into cognition naturally. They are forced to interpret reality through rigid, contextless networks, often described behaviorally as sensory overwhelm, fixations, disassociation, or communication difficulties.


Now layer onto that the fact that vaccines contain paramagnetic metals, like aluminum. These materials do not conduct electricity in the traditional sense but can disrupt or distort local electromagnetic fields, especially in biological systems that rely on subtle charge differentials for communication, such as the brain.

Shaw & Tomljenovic (2013) demonstrated that aluminum from vaccines, when delivered intramuscularly, can bind to carrier proteins, be phagocytosed by monocytes or macrophages, and later cross the blood-brain barrier via cellular transport.

Once in the brain, it can disrupt mitochondrial function and induce calcium dyshomeostasis, which together lead to neuronal misfiring, dysfunction, and in some cases, cell death.

It's now well established that aluminum is a neurotoxin capable of interfering with normal brain development. It has been shown to increase the permeability of the blood-brain barrier by degrading tight junction proteins like claudin-5 and occludin, thereby allowing immune factors and inflammatory cytokines to enter the brain more easily.

But beyond simply allowing harmful agents access to the brain, aluminum itself is actively taken up by microglia, the brain’s resident immune cells. These cells are not passive defenders, they are key sculptors of the developing brain. Microglia regulate synaptic pruning, axon guidance, and the plasticity of neuronal networks.

When microglia are chronically activated or primed by toxic stimuli like aluminum, they shift from supportive caretakers to inflammatory saboteurs. The result is that brain circuitry becomes unbalanced, skewed toward overexcitation, loss of inhibitory tone, and overall disorganization.

As a consequence, neurons begin to fire prematurely, repetitively, or in chaotic bursts, generating random noise rather than coherent signal. The developing brain then lays down permanent tracks based on this distorted activity.

During critical periods of learning and sensory integration, new experiences are no longer processed through an adaptive and evolving network. Instead, they are filtered through rigid, trauma-based, decontextualized pathways. The child grows into a perceptual world that is fragmented, emotionally unanchored, and overwhelming to navigate.

In the end, the child’s brain is not simply injured, it becomes locked into a hyper-reactive, defensive operating mode, structurally and electrochemically resistant to reorganization or recovery without intensive, often lifelong, therapeutic intervention.


Rate of Occurrence

In 1970, the rate of autism in American children was 1 in 10,000.

YearAutism PrevalenceRatio
20021 in 1500.67%
20061 in 1100.91%
20081 in 881.14%
20121 in 681.47%
20161 in 541.85%
20201 in 362.78%
20231 in 224.5% (unofficial reports show ~1 in 20 boys)

If autism prevalence in America continues to increase at this rate, then by 2040 1 in 5 will be autistic - and by 2060, 100% of children will be autistic. These rates can't be explained by "improved diagnostic ability" or genetic factors.

So, considering the clear and known biological pathways and unexplainable rates of YoY increase... the question shouldn't be “do vaccines cause autism?”, it should be “why haven't we been allowed to investigate this likelihood fully, without persecution?”


Let's Review the Literature

"unlikely" is a nice way to say "its just a little bit"


VAERS REPORTS

If you visit medalerts.com, search expert mode, view 100 results per page, then enter 10 as the age cap in demographic. Finally, either enter ‘autism’ under write up in the symptoms section, or select ‘yes’ under died in the event characteristics sections.

I’ve read over 300 pages of these reports and have screenshotted 150 that just shattered me to read.  Thinking of these parents earth shattering loss, the trauma of finding your babies body, or holding them while they die, and finally the absolute lack of diligence by the medical professionals in finding the cause. It makes my blood boil. I ugly cry every time I read these.

Healthy babies don’t just die in their sleep. They don’t just suddenly stop speaking.

If you believe for certain that vaccines do not or cannot cause SIDS or autism, please take the time to read a few of these accounts. Tell me if you think these parents are lying. Tell me how many parents and babies will have to experience the same horrific fate until we acknowledge the connection and cause?