The Amish make for a terrible control group because there are dozens of possible factors that can be at play for their low rates.
One of the biggest causes of the 'tism is having your first kid over the age of 35, which is something the Amish don't do almost at all, and that's completely independent of the vaxxes.
Same with autism only notably manifesting for a lot of people due to overstimulation issues. Something the quiet, simple life of an Amish person will have very little problem with. So even if it did exist, it could skirt by mostly as "Jedidiah is a little odd" instead of a named disorder.
I'm not saying the vaxxes might not be a cause as well, but we would learn nothing about anything you are aiming for by comparing our existence to theirs other than massive broad strokes generalizations.
The Amish make for a terrible control group because there are dozens of possible factors that can be at play for their low rates.
One of the biggest causes of the 'tism is having your first kid over the age of 35, which is something the Amish don't do almost at all, and that's completely independent of the vaxxes.
Same with autism only notably manifesting for a lot of people due to overstimulation issues. Something the quiet, simple life of an Amish person will have very little problem with. So even if it did exist, it could skirt by mostly as "Jedidiah is a little odd" instead of a named disorder.
I'm not saying the vaxxes might not be a cause as well, but we would learn nothing about anything you are aiming for by comparing our existence to theirs other than massive broad strokes generalizations.