Steve Silberman, in his 2015 book Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, writes that ever since autism diagnoses started increasing, "stories began to circulate on the Internet about babies that seemed to be developing normally until they received a routine immunization … Parents referred to their sons and daughters as having been kidnapped, as if a thief—dressed in a pediatrician's white coat—had stolen them away in the night."

XREF: Connects to the larger history of the vaccine-autism myth, including Wakefield, and how narrative framing (the 'kidnapped child') made the claim emotionally resonant beyond its scientific basis.

Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, loc. 677