Honestly, you can't convince me vaccines don't cause autism. I don't care about the science behind it. Call me one of those ignorant buffoons, but I stand by my claim.
Here's my story.
My mother was told by her doctor not to vaccinate my older brother, Collin, because my father has autism, as did my other brother. By the time he was eighteen months old, he started saying words, and was already walking. He loved to eat watermelon, and what our family calls "Funeral Potatoes". Then they moved. Their doctor who had warned them not to vaccinate my brother was no longer our primary doctor. When we went in to get him his check-up, the doctor was down my parents throats about vaccinating my brother. Under pressure, my parents agreed to one vaccine, the MMR. They were nervous about it, but they took him in anyway because the doctor refused to service them until they vaccinated my brother. Well, the doctor took it to her leisure to give him every fucking vaccine at once. My parents were furious.
They never went back to that doctor. 3 days later, my brother shut down. He just stopped. He wouldn't speak, wouldn't walk, wouldn't do anything he used to do. He hated being touched, and would wail when he was.
A few weeks later he was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome.
Asperger's is a mental disability that stems from the central nervous system. It is entirely possible that he could've had Asperger's in him before these shots, but certain shots that affect the central nervous system may have triggered the autism.
I doubt vaccines directly relate to autism, but you can't tell me they don't have an effect.
To this day I have not been vaccinated. I was born after my parents moved again, and that doctor told them not to vaccinate me because over 90% of the population was vaccinated, so I shouldn't be at risk.