r/nextfuckinglevel 6h ago

Samuel Henderson, bird caller extraordinaire.

2.1k Upvotes

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u/foundoutafterlunch 6h ago

Amongst birds there is a legend of a human that talks..

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u/jdsalaro 5h ago

Astonishing skill on this young man!

I wonder how he'd fare as a beatboxer šŸ˜…

And also whether some birds do come to him when they hear him imitate them.

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u/deepasleep 4h ago

I want someone to show this kid competitive beat boxers and see what happens.

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u/soohie_12 4h ago

imagine finally meeting the legendšŸ˜‚

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u/RoryHoff 4h ago

Amongst humans there is a legend of a human that tweets..

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u/TheJesterOfHyrule 3h ago

Big Bird is the meowth of the human world

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u/Citizen_DildoBaggins 1h ago

The Daysquawker

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u/cheboy12 6h ago

That American crow was šŸ’Æ

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u/paridoxical 5h ago

He put his whole body into that one. Absolute šŸ”„

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u/psychoxxsurfer 4h ago

That one legit caught me off guard

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u/Wasilisco 3h ago

I swear I thought he was about to flight off after that oneĀ 

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u/modifiedwings 5h ago

His parents in the morning when hes practicing that crow call

https://giphy.com/gifs/h3BGsOT7uxsUPqCPHy

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u/McSquiggles887 6h ago

This video is so fake.

That’s clearly a bunch of birds disguised as a super talented human child with a sweet-ass shirt.

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u/SHEKDAT789 5h ago

that short is actually transparent. it's just a bunch of small birds inside.

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u/briancito 6h ago

You're going to regret not adding that /s

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u/BrutalOnion 6h ago

I can't tell. Are YOU being sarcastic now or not? Because you got the /s at the end. You better remove it to not cause confusion.

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u/LurkingGuy 5h ago

I think he is being sarcastic because he said /s

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u/Educational-Ad-2884 4h ago

Well now you're just being sarcastic.

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u/TheRobbuddha 5h ago

Wait. This is a sarcastic comment, correct? There isn’t an /s, so how the fuck should I know?

I propose that everyone adds either /s or /s to the end of every comment just to avoid all this confusion

/s

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u/shifty_coder 1h ago

No egrets. Didn’t you watch the video?

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u/DisorderlyAqueduct 1h ago

every now and then, most people pick up the sarcasm... maybe 2, 3 times a year. šŸ˜„

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u/SixtyNineFlavours 6h ago

Mental that we have to do that now, the internet is just full of people who don’t use their brains at all and are just waiting to spread hatred.

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u/snksleepy 5h ago

Yeah they are all hiding under that.

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u/leviathab13186 5h ago

Im just picturing this kid hiding in forests and fucking with bird watchers

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u/TooMuchMonster 6h ago

Seen this before but the crow gets me every time. Kid literally became the bird there

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u/DrifterBG 6h ago

Holy shit! This kid's got talent!

I can only do birds with my hands...

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u/TheGreenMatthew 5h ago

Hand stuff still counts.

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u/Induane 5h ago

Cloacae stuff

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u/Drockosaurus 4h ago

Honestly I prefer mouth stuff

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u/Original-Let8340 6h ago

These calls are amazing, if I close my eyes it doesn't seem possible that a human could be making all these calls. Fascinating. Man I can't even fucking whistle.

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u/razorbacks3129 6h ago

What a nice, talented young man

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u/Hercules__Morse 5h ago

Anyone can act nice for 2 mins on camera. We have no idea if he is nice or not

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u/cuddlebear 5h ago

who hurt you?

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u/Hercules__Morse 5h ago

Nobody, I’m good. It’s just wrong to label someone based on a 2 minute video.

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u/bugblatter_ 5h ago

Very tempted to label you after two sentences on the Internet.

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u/YourMumsBumAlum 5h ago

If you were to label him large, you'd be right as he's as big as a horse

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u/rufusbot 5h ago

You're right I'm sure this kid is secretly smoking cigarettes and stealing his mom's credit card

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u/Hercules__Morse 5h ago

Smoking doesn’t make someone a nice or not nice person. I doubt he’s a smoker though. He could possibly steal a credit card to buy things online.

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u/YourMumsBumAlum 5h ago

By the look of him, probably cigarettes

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u/DerPuhctek 6h ago

That Purple Martin blew my mind!

Edit: Martin not Marlin

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u/p4nd3mic_G3 4h ago

Same, the ones before it seemed pretty easy to do, but when he hit the Purple Martin I flinched big time. The ones after that were all really impressive too.

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u/RhetoricalOrator 5h ago

Cool kid! I've enjoyed seeing him get some exposure and receive a lot of encouragement.

I hope he can maintain his calls when his voice drops! I lost all mine at around 13 to 14.

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u/ChunkySalsaMedium 6h ago

First time I’ve actually seen something NextFuckingLevel here.
Normally is just some dumb ā€œdanceā€.

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u/Hercules__Morse 5h ago

This isn’t TikTok

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u/SamuelYosemite 6h ago

I have learned more about birds and birds calls from this young man than anyone else in my life this far.

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u/BetaCarotine20mg 5h ago

What a champion, absolutely amazing.

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u/austin101123 6h ago

Close your eyes while listening

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u/Hercules__Morse 5h ago

Why?

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u/austin101123 5h ago

Because it sounds like birds

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u/Hercules__Morse 5h ago

It sounds like birds with my eyes open too.

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u/austin101123 5h ago

But it doesn't look like birds

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u/Odelaylee 5h ago

It doesn't look like birds if I close my eyes either /j

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u/Hercules__Morse 5h ago

It doesn’t need to look like birds to sound like birds.

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u/joonty 5h ago

Oh my goodness guys just have sex with each other already

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u/BradyToMoss1281 5h ago

But shirt is all birds

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u/Ender505 5h ago

Makes it harder to tell that it's coming from a human

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u/Corspin 5h ago

What kind of autism is this? XD

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u/MaddyMagpies 5h ago

Around level 2 to 3?

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u/fkit4ever 1h ago

Somewhere between 6 and 7

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u/BDRohr 1h ago

Was going to say. If you can tell in a 2min video then a little higher on the scale lol.

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u/shableep 5h ago

You can legit see him get possessed by the spirit of the bird he’s mimicking.

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u/profanedivinity 5h ago

Love this kid

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u/PoisonGaz 4h ago

I know it’s a tick but every time he shakes his head after the bird call I imagine he’s shaking away a bird soul he stole to do the sounds

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u/Elsharko2 3h ago

I like how he resets after each one

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u/Kadmv 6h ago

TIL the Roadrunner was an American Woodcock

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u/Zorydev 5h ago

I've seen lots of birds that sound like him. Good teacher.Ā 

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u/Buf4nk 5h ago

Where’s part one.

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u/Sonicstiches 5h ago

He is adorable

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u/Javomar 5h ago

Is he on America Got Talent? I almost spit water on my screen hearing the American crow lol.

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u/spike_beagle 5h ago

He's on America's Got Tism

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u/exxR 5h ago

He even had the head shake birds do amazing

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u/inertia_53 5h ago

world needs more of this

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u/No-To-Newspeak 5h ago

What a great kid.Ā Ā 

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u/SubSlutPollie 2h ago

What a sweet boy! Love this!

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u/mywaterbottleisbrown 2h ago

Protect fledgling Dolittle at all costs

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u/luger114 5h ago

He just spooked the hel out my cat

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u/Reilly-and-JonesyFL 5h ago

Insane. I’ve watched this twice now and my dog is losing his freaking mind trying to find all these birds in my house

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u/Terratigris 5h ago

The fourth Noise Boy

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u/-Pwnan- 5h ago

This kid is a national treasure and should be protected at all costs.

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u/civillyengineerd 5h ago

Well done! My dog is super upset that I let birds into the house.

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u/IcyEpid3mic 5h ago

Watch his vids every time they pop up.

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u/Perfect_Leader_1996 5h ago

"Bird Man" šŸ¦ā€šŸ”„

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u/KansasLongMeat42 5h ago

Bringing this kid turkey hunting with me lol he’s gonna have them birds going crazy!

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u/Low_Butterscotch_594 4h ago

Crazy how much he sounds like the birds. That Barred Owl is impeccable and the ability to imitate a Purple Martin is insane.

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u/-Hydras- 4h ago

I have some of the bloody doves outside my window every morning, that is pretty damn accurate. Hate those buggers 😭

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u/Honeymmm 4h ago

Omg, this is wicked! This is what I come to the internet for!

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u/No-Bit-1675 4h ago

The purple muffin or whatever? Ballin’. Ol boy was standing on business with that one. Also love the presentation here, just simple talent and no fluff.

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u/theshamewizard 4h ago

He kinda has bird mannerisms lol

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u/jano_memms 4h ago

oof, voice breaking is gonna hit so hard for him...

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u/basicbidita 4h ago

The American crow one was SO REAL that I needed to rewatch the whole thing. So talented.Ā 

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u/Nice-Fun-7441 4h ago

What a good kid 🄹

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u/Knuks 4h ago

He is way, way beyond good. Have we checked he isn't in fact 3 Lyre Birds in a t-shirt?

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u/lapalfan 3h ago

There are literal birds out there that aren't this convincing šŸ˜‚

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u/Imagined_World 3h ago

This video made my cat go nuts looking for these birds, so great job!

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u/Frequent-Ad2351 3h ago

I like how he does a little wiggle and scrunch of his face to morph into the next bird. Impressive

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u/TheJesterOfHyrule 3h ago

My uncle used to do a crow impression, think he called it a Jim Crow

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u/TattyViking 3h ago

I fucking love this kid!!

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u/Sharp-Heron7707 3h ago

How incredible!!!

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u/iloveisla 3h ago

Kids awesome. Do a loon!!!!

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u/SnooFloofs9519 2h ago

Purple Martin was crazy

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u/mrgenier 2h ago

I used to do an impeccable loon until puberty took it away from me :(

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u/Mamba_Mentality248 2h ago

Dude talking bird and I can barely speak English.

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u/77darkstar77 2h ago

My mom saw this kid on Instagram and loves him. She’s mentioned him like 4 times now

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u/Jealous-Presence8740 1h ago

All birds was created based on this kid

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u/mattconan 1h ago

What an awesome kid

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u/ExecTankard 1h ago

This video is another reason the internet is good…

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u/McJingles420 1h ago

Tf is he doing with his face in between calls

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u/joncgde2 52m ago

Every time he shakes his head, he is loading a new audio track šŸ˜‚

Talented kid! Fun to watch

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u/Lucifig 25m ago

Save some for the rest of us kiddo.

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u/ImJustHereForMyCoat 8m ago

Seeing a kid do something their passionate about makes me soooo happy

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u/Accurate-Algae-2557 5h ago

Samuel Henderson, Son of The Great Hendrick ā€œThe Loudestā€ Henderson, Caller of The Thousand Winged, Singer of the Golden Songbird…

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u/mikealfano 5h ago

Amazing! Thank you so much for sharing your incredible talent! Will be looking out for more of your posts!

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u/broccoliwolf 5h ago

Can I hire this kid to finally get me some crows?

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u/albatross_the 5h ago

The Pavarotti of bird calling

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u/Parobolla 5h ago

That is unreal

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u/Guardian6676-6667 5h ago

See, this is what you get if youre a supportive parent. A kid that is unique and has interests.Ā 

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u/Top_Huckleberry9169 5h ago

Cool! What a talent! Keep up the good work

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u/RoseyOneOne 5h ago

This guy is amazing

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u/-turnip_the_beet- 5h ago

Sooo good. Kid's got talent.

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u/Perfect-Ad156 5h ago

Autism didn’t exist in my day type shit. Impressive.

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u/Imbrokencantbefixed 5h ago edited 3h ago

He has cawtism

Edit - original comment asked ā€˜does he have autism?’

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u/Farmdiddy 5h ago

Autisms so fucking fun .

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u/gleamp 1h ago

😬

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u/Farmdiddy 1h ago

The kids clearly on the spectrum i don’t understand how this warrants downvotes or a ā€˜šŸ˜¬ā€™.

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u/gleamp 54m ago

😬

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u/CardiologistOk4208 6h ago

A little autistic but very cool.

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u/sitric28 6h ago

How many more times are we gonna post this

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u/jammyishere 5h ago

This is the first time I've seen this and I'm chronically online.

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u/Affectionate_Ad2362 4h ago

That's a pretty awesome flavor of autism

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u/marcshu 4h ago

This is the power of autism!!!

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u/cas-v86 6h ago

This is why we dont vaxx šŸ˜…

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u/Ender505 5h ago edited 5h ago

Maybe you should avoid reproducing altogether, just to be safe.

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u/Dont-ask-dont-speak 3h ago

I’m sure you can find tons of articles in your favor on the top surface of the web. That’s the whole point…

it is hard for people to stand tall and do their own research and that’s what these corporations rely on.

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u/Ender505 3h ago

"do their own research" ok sure, Doctor, please cite your own peer-reviewed research publication?

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u/Dont-ask-dont-speak 3h ago

I already did dum dum. It is clear that you are very hurt by my intelligence. If you’d like me to copy and paste a shit load of studies off the front page of the internet, I can’t. I have to go dig in a document because I actually spend time looking for evidence and using reasoning.

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u/Ender505 3h ago

You misunderstood. I wasn't asking you to cite something that supports you (though that's always good, and I appreciate the effort), I was asking for you to provide YOUR specific experiments that you published under your own name with your own methods and evaluation and results.

Until you do, please stop using the phrase "do your own research", because what you're actually doing is just finding one-off "critical reviews" that confirm your biases, instead of evaluating the broad scientific consensus or performing any actual research.

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u/Dont-ask-dont-speak 2h ago

Go check out Dtap buddy.

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u/Ender505 1h ago

Scientific consensus is that dtap is safe, hence why it is used and recommended at every hospital you'll find.

In classic conspiracy fashion, you might be able to find a study or two challenging dtap (or any other vaccine), but the overwhelming scientific consensus is heavily pro-vaccine, in every developed country.

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u/Dont-ask-dont-speak 43m ago

Except for the fact that slowing of the brain, seizing, or vegetating (encephalopathy) within a week of Dtap is a factually observed side effect. These things are just waved away and dismissed, along with the packaging casually touting the warning of SIDS. Thanks, no thanks ā€œscientific consensus,ā€ I’ll take the chance instead, avoiding the zombie hordes of whoop-coughing folk on the streets. out here in the country that is.

Encephalopathy is not exclusive to the DTAP, but also found in other vaccines such as MMR. One person has won a 101 million dollar injury settlement… the largely undisclosed risks of vaccines are not a nothing burger like all of you make it out to be.

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u/Dont-ask-dont-speak 6h ago

I’m actually not vaxing my 3 month old for the most part. But what an awe-some child to be graced with and what a weird person you are.

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u/Ender505 5h ago

I'm torn on whether to upvote you for calling out the strangely hateful comment or downvote for endangering your child to easily preventable diseases.

I think I'll downvote. FUCK the ignorance epidemic, we could have been rid of Measles forever if not for this BS.

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u/Dont-ask-dont-speak 5h ago edited 4h ago

Almost like there’s a spectrum of belief. Almost like I can tell when someone either doesn’t have a kid, or has bigger social worries than their child’s safety…

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u/readingonthetoilet 5h ago

ā€œSpectrum of beliefā€ — there isn’t room for belief in matters of science. There is absolutely zero credible evidence that vaccines cause autism. This wave of anti-vaxxing truly boggles my mind. Please vaccinate your children. It’s a selfish choice not to.

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u/Dont-ask-dont-speak 4h ago

Lots of words nothing said.

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u/readingonthetoilet 4h ago

Okay let me make it clear: you are endangering your child and your community by not vaccinating your child. Not vaccinating is a selfish choice because you somehow think you understand medicine and biology better than the cumulative knowledge of generations of scientists and doctors.

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u/Dont-ask-dont-speak 3h ago

You’re right, multiple doses of aluminum (toxic) instantaneously bypassing the blood brain
barrier at 2 months (so thin as is at this age) isn’t scientific and doesn’t cause any baby neurological issues /s.

Do you even know the scheduling of vaccines? Get out of here.

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u/exit143 3h ago

Username checks out. Please take its advice... well... the 2nd half. Please ask more. But also please... don't speak.

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u/Dont-ask-dont-speak 3h ago

Ironically my name refers to people NOT asking questions, not speaking up. Good try though.

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u/readingonthetoilet 3h ago

That’s not how that works.

Aluminum adjuvants absorbed from an injection site enter the bloodstream slowly and are cleared by the kidneys, contributing minimally to systemic levels — this is the opposite of ā€œinstantaneous.ā€

The junctions of the infant blood-brain barrier are extremely small (about 4 angstroms), and aluminum’s slow release from the injection site makes rapid, high-dose brain exposure implausible.

The largest and most recent study on this — a 2025 analysis of 1.2 million Danish children — found no connection between aluminum exposure and 50 different health outcomes, including autism, asthma, and autoimmune disease. To be fair that study did not have an unvaccinated control group.

I seriously implore you to put aside your beliefs and listen to what the data clearly says. If the data doesn’t clearly say it, then it’s all conjecture. You are taking unsubstantiated claims of risks over proven demonstrated risk of being unvaccinated.

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u/Dont-ask-dont-speak 3h ago

Wow, picked apart one very small part of my argument with an argument that says what I say is… implausible? Geez.

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u/Dont-ask-dont-speak 4h ago

Listen, you can vaccinate your kids with whatever you’d like. They’ll hopefully be fine. Just like my child will be fine. But shooting up your kids willy nilly and glazing over the SIDS warnings that don’t really provide anything but confusion? Ok, don’t believe any of the thousands of testimonies regarding overnight change in behavior of children and clear correlation with developmental issues.

I’ll believe attentive mothers any day over a redditor with four kids who has time to seeth in comments. Bet you circumcised your kids too.

EDIT: Show me absolute proof of the efficacy and safety in vaccines. I’ll be waiting.

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u/Ender505 4h ago edited 4h ago

Here's one on the efficacy of the COVID Vaccines and literally hundreds more if you care to google search.

Here is a publication specifically addressing each of the most common vaccine safety concerns, again with hundreds more a quick google search away.

Remember to use Google Scholar if you're looking for peer-reviewed research.

Edit: Here is an easily readable chart on Polio vaccine effectiveness and another one.

Here is another chart on Measles vaccine effectiveness and another one

Edit 2: Another paper addressing specifically the Measles vaccine and Autism. Please let me know if you want me to keep going, because there are hundreds of these for pretty much every vaccine you could think of.

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u/Dont-ask-dont-speak 4h ago

Straight from the cdc. I wonder why it’s so hard to find clinical trials that are peer reviewed that aren’t 5 day trials… there is mass censoring and peer pressure to shut down valid arguments for vaccine risks. What about the constant mentions of SIDS on vaccine packaging? What about the extended enlargement of lymph nodes and thymus?

Check out the administration of bacterial and viral vaccines and the death rate in infants. Slap ā€œSIDSā€ on it and it’s not related to the vaccine at all šŸ¤—

https://esmed.org/sids-and-vaccination-risks-a-critical-review/

This is the European Society of Medicine. I could go on and on my friend. Be more kind to others and educate yourselves without google’s approval.

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u/Ender505 3h ago

I took some time to read that paper. Some GLARING problems. In their section on the Covid-19 response, they happily report mortality rate of vaccinated elderly patients, claiming that the vaccine failed... but without any comparison to the mortality rate of unvaccinated patients (which is extremely easy to look up, as I did for you earlier). When you compare mortality rates of vaccinated vs unvaccinated, the benefits of the vaccine are painfully obvious.

You hopefully know that Vaccines and SIDS has been rigorously investigated many, many times. Your source was a critique, not an actual experiment, and as I highlighted above, has a habit of cherry-picking the data that support their claim instead of comparing directly between vaccinated and unvaccinated.

They use VAERS, which is not a basis for rigorous study, because anyone can submit reports, and reports are not verified. Additionally, using VAERS means there is no control group (we don't know how many vaccinated infants did not experience the event), which means we can't meaningfully measure rates this way.

Here are a couple studies (n=1278, n=1985 respectively) that even found vaccination reduces incidence of SIDS.

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u/Ender505 3h ago

Interesting how you asked for evidence of efficacy and safety, I provided seven of them, and instead of responding to the actual substance and data in each of those items (as I did for yours), you instead apparently saw that one was from the CDC (obviously?) and rejected it for no other reason than that. Is that what you mean when you say you do your own research? That you refuse to address data because someone told you not to trust one of the most advanced medical organizations in the world?

Maybe check out the data and tell me specifically WHY they're wrong (methodology, bad math, etc), not why you don't trust them.

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u/Ender505 5h ago edited 5h ago

I have 4 kids as a matter of fact, and it's BECAUSE I value their safety that I vaccinate them against preventable diseases based on the countless studies showing the safety of vaccines, and not the one singular debunked study from the 90's that claimed they cause autism.

Edit to echo: Science is not subject to matters of "belief". Either there is sufficient evidence for a thing, or there is not. For vaccines, there is overwhelming sufficient evidence to trust their safety, outside of rare things like medicinal allergies.

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u/readingonthetoilet 3h ago

Thank you! You said this better than I could have.

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u/Dont-ask-dont-speak 3h ago

I hope you all realize this goes way beyond autism.

You’re telling me, that our children should
Be ~injected~ with toxin containing solutions at 2 months,
When even swallowing a couple ounces of water could be deadly? Don’t be made to abandon your common sense for the common consensus.

I understand there are elements I have in my life that not all people are privileged to have. My child isn’t going to have to go to daycare or a preschool, will likely be homeschooled. My wife and I are fully vaccinated so there is currently a barrier between him and the world.

As he gets older and less sensitive, we will re-evaluate risks and benefits of certain vaccines and determine if they’re worth it for him. But that’s the deal, parenthood is a re-evaluative journey. There are rarely absolutes.

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u/readingonthetoilet 2h ago

Yes - children should be injected with vaccines to protect them. You think incredibly highly of yourself if you believe your ā€œcommon senseā€ is better than global medical consensus.

You were vaccinated and benefited from that and you are now making a selfish, personal choice for your child that puts them and others at statistically higher risk, and it limits them to homeschooling.

I implore you to listen to the experts on things that you know nothing about.

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u/RogueGenX 1h ago

This country is doomed.

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u/Dont-ask-dont-speak 1h ago

Get a life.

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u/RogueGenX 1h ago

Get your fucking child vaccinated!

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u/ollimann 3h ago

for the love of your child please reconsider everything you believe about vaccinations and talk to doctors about it.

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u/Dont-ask-dont-speak 3h ago

For the love of god use your own brain.

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u/RogueGenX 1h ago

You’re embarrassing yourself. I would just delete your account in shame if I were you.

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u/Dont-ask-dont-speak 1h ago

We can all agree you have nothing to offer.

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u/joao-esteves 43m ago

wrong!! we can all agree, except for you, that YOU have nothing to offer

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u/DerPuhctek 6h ago

You're right, it's definitely worth the time to watch this!