While this trend is not being perpetuated by psychologists, it does deal with abnormal psychology, which is a very large part of psychology as a whole. Autism and vaccines have had a nasty past ever since Jenny McCarthy decided to spread misinformation from a false study. Despite the fact that the study has been debunked, many people now fear vaccines. These parents, also known as anti-vaxxer's, have refused to vaccinate their children out of fear of autism and "Big Pharma". Autism is treated as an illness that tears families apart. This places a certain stigma onto autistics and their families that is neither true nor healthy. Autism is a disorder but it is not monstrous or something to fear. Autistic children can lead lives that are just as happy as the lives of children who are not autistic. With the anti-vaxxing trend, more and more parents are using the "vaccines cause autism" line like a mantra and it begs the question: what is wrong with autism? If this stigma of autism being a monstrous family-ending disease is ever going to be erased, more awareness is going to have to be raised about what autism really is. Autism is not bad, and it should not be treated as though it
While this trend is not being perpetuated by psychologists, it does deal with abnormal psychology, which is a very large part of psychology as a whole. Autism and vaccines have had a nasty past ever since Jenny McCarthy decided to spread misinformation from a false study. Despite the fact that the study has been debunked, many people now fear vaccines. These parents, also known as anti-vaxxer's, have refused to vaccinate their children out of fear of autism and "Big Pharma". Autism is treated as an illness that tears families apart. This places a certain stigma onto autistics and their families that is neither true nor healthy. Autism is a disorder but it is not monstrous or something to fear. Autistic children can lead lives that are just as happy as the lives of children who are not autistic. With the anti-vaxxing trend, more and more parents are using the "vaccines cause autism" line like a mantra and it begs the question: what is wrong with autism? If this stigma of autism being a monstrous family-ending disease is ever going to be erased, more awareness is going to have to be raised about what autism really is. Autism is not bad, and it should not be treated as though it