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One of the most ideologically appealing forms of pseudoscience started with the idea of vaccines causing autism. A parent's guilt that they don't really love their child can be intense. Telling them that their child isn't really autistic, that their real child is hiding in there somewhere waiting to be cured and that the autism was something done to them by external factors, is quite appealing.
Yes, it shouldn't matter if it's due to external causes but this is the appeal of the idea.
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