Welcome to the Learn True Health Podcast. I'm your host Ashley James. This is

episode 403. I am so excited for today's guest. We have with us Polly Tommy, who's a mother and an

activist and a producer of documentaries that have blown my mind.

I am kind of pinching myself talking to you today

because watching you in the Vaxed documentary I was crying most of the time a lot of tears of

inspiration a lot of tears of shock and sorrow but at the end of that emotional roller coaster I walked away thinking that the entire world needs to see the movies that you've produced and that everyone needs to have this information

What I love about your message is you're not trying out, you're not

fear-mongering, you're not shaming, you are empowering, and so thank you so much Polly for the work that you do and

thank you for being here today to share your story with us.

Thank you so much for having me.

Absolutely. I'd love for you to start by sharing your story, your personal journey with autism and becoming an activist.

Yes, well, so to start with, my husband and I were extremely pro vaccine when we had our first child, Bella, and we vaccinated her.

And of course you must remember this is 25 years ago, so we did not have the schedule that

you have today. And this was in England, we haven't even you know less

schedule vaccine schedule than you do here so it was really almost one at

a time because that's what the schedule schedule. So we were very pro vaccine and we had our second

child very close behind our first and so we didn't think twice of course about vaccinating now on the morning that I took my son Billy at 13 months into the doctor's surgery to have his MMR just that vaccine.

I went and had a coffee with my friend just so that I could be the first one in to tick the box on you know on the book to be you know the perfect mother which is what I wanted to be I wanted to do everything perfectly and so

vaccinating was part of that for me. And my friend warned me, she said, you know,

there's been this odd thing on television about the MMR that there could be a problem with it.

And I said to my friend there's just no way you know that this is true because the

doctor would of course would he not tell me if there was a problem.

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