As a former Speech Language Path who worked with young children since 1975 I saw the increase in autism in my kids over the years. I also so direct damage of the MMR shot in families. I had one family of three boys all damaged by the MMR shot. All became autistic and regressed after that shot. Sadly it was too late for me to stop the third. I was called back to see her third son (they wanted me because I had worked with their first child). However The second son had just been diagnosed with it (he was normal as a baby when I saw his brother). And the third son was damaged by then, too. I also had a friend who had her son who was developing normally regress after a flu shot and become autistic when he was five. She was the biggest advocate for Parental rights and anti-vaccine after her son was damaged. She even decided to go back to school as a single mom in OT so she could learn how to address his problems and help others. My caseload of autistic children rose every year from the 1980's on until almost all my kiddos were autistic.