Anti-vaccine parents have framed their children as kidnapped and replaced, matching changeling folklore

Evidence

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.” — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 677

Categorization

• XREF: Direct parallel to the changeling template in the preceding paragraph; also connects to the socio-cultural construction of autism literature (Steve Silberman).