I was raised by anti-vaxxers. I’m terrified for today’s kids.

Nat Smith
4 min readNov 13, 2021

How many of those under 18 will be put at risk because of their parents’ poor decisions?

The author around age 11 or 12, playing dress-up.

We were lucky to survive.

My parents stopped vaccinating us when I was a year old. At three, I got the chicken pox; when I was 12, my six siblings got it, including the 14-year-old eldest. They remember dragging themselves down…

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Nat Smith

Relationship liberation: equity, integrity, community, and connection. Coach + educator for radical intimacy. Newsletter: natsmith.substack.com.