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Hello!

My name is Aimee, and this is my personal story as a Chiropractic Assistant.

I am 23 years old and have never been vaccinated. Yes, never. I have never had a flu shot, or any other kind of "booster shot" they have out there. And believe it or not, I am a healthy, happy, young woman.

My whole life I have felt that I had to hide the fact of who I was, because it was so unheard of to not be a vaccinated child, and it was so "unnatural," and "not safe" that I was ashamed to tell people and have to defend myself to the public.

But now that I am older, I voice my opinion quite a bit on politics, and now healthcare. My opinions are strong and I want others to see my side of the story. I want them to know where I'm coming from, to see things through my eyes.

I work for a local wellness chiropractic office in Canton, Georgia. The purpose of our office is to support each individual in achieving their optimum heath and educate them so they may understand health and chiropractic and in turn, educate others. So in order to educate the public, I am starting a blog.

Here at Wellness Chiropractic Center (or WCC) we are a very family oriented practice, and we care so much for our Wellness Partners (patients) and we will do just about anything to help someone achieve health without the need for drugs, medicine and surgeries.

When I say that we are a family oriented practice, I mean that. Dr.'s Lou and Laurie have been married for 35 years (as of yesterday actually!) and have been in practice for over 33 years in the Canton area. Our office manager has been with us for 17 years this May, and I have been here since December of 2013... but, Dr.'s Lou and Laurie have been adjusting me since I was born. Within hours of my birth actually. And they are my parents.

So it is very suiting that I work here now, right?

I have been under chiropractic care my whole life. I have only been to the medical doctor a handful of times as a last resort, and as I said previously, I have never been vaccinated.

The whole "anti-vaccine movement" controversy and the angry outbursts from the pro vaccine crowd I hear is absolutely appalling. People are acting as if this is a new thing. No, this has been going on for years (since the late 1940's when the first vaccinations were given,) but finally it is clicking with others and so they are taking a stance and spreading the word of the dangers of vaccinations.

And for me, it never fails to have "hate-mail" after I voice my opinion. It's been going on since I was old enough to vote and I took advantage of my right to free speech, trying to educate the "one sided" to try to get through to them about other matters our country is under. It has been going on millions of years with religion, and it is going on now with the "anti-vaccination movement."

Hate-mail.

There is going to be hate no matter where you go. People are going to disagree with you, and you know what? That's okay. To me, as long as I put something out there, it will at least get through to SOMEONE. And that right there is why I felt the need to start this blog today.

Earlier this afternoon I had shared an article on our WCC Facebook Page concerning the dangers of vaccines. Afterwards I decided to also share that same post on my personal account. And low and behold, here came the hate-mail. I was practically ambushed by medically-minded individuals, personal friends of mine, who know nothing about the human body and the way it works. Shoving biased information down my throat and rudely stating "this is false" "you have no idea what you are talking about" "chiropractors are not doctors" "the human body cannot heal itself" "vaccines are how people survive" "anti-vaccinated people are a threat to the vaccinated." I could go on and on.

The feedback I was getting was simply appalling. And not one person was on my side. Well, that is until a text come through to my phone to say that "Oh my gosh! Those people on your Facebook!! Ughh they make me mad."

It was nice to finally have the support, but it brought the idea to my head that they are not comfortable about voicing their opinion with the public. They are scared about what others are going to think, they are worried they will have these people attack them as they attacked me, or, if they do publicly voice their agreement with me, that they won't have enough information to back their opinion's up. And both of those options made me sad.

My goal here is to educate the public enough to give them the courage to voice their opinion on matters that concern your health, and to reach others who are stuck in limbo on not knowing what to do- vaccinate or not to vaccinate.

But going back to my Facebook post, I finally chose to take it down because I was becoming so heated and angry over this, and that is just silly to do that to myself. I don't need that stress in my life. I posted this out of awareness and concern for my friends, a simple way to let them know that they should do their own research on the subject, and here I am being attacked for it.

I knew the debate I was in the middle of was going no where, those individuals are so medically-minded that there was no hope in ever getting through to them. So I took the post down and took a few deep breaths to relieve my stress.

The next thing I know I get a message in my inbox from another friend ('oh great... here we go..' I thought.)

She proceed to tell me how she was thankful for the posts that I share and write because "it helped me to decide to stop vaccinating and rethinking doctors and medicine... and I really need to come to your parents office."

That one simple message turned my whole afternoon around. I was beginning to think that I would be in a bad mood for the rest of my day and I will be mulling over what I should have said to those people on my Facebook, and now, all of those heated feelings had left and joy took it's place.

After all the "hate-mail" I received, then came the silver lining. I had reached someone.

I had gotten through to at least one person!

And that's all it takes. That's all I wanted- to get through to at least one person. It all seemed worth it in the end.

And that is my vision. To spread the word of chiropractic, get the information out there that THERE IS ANOTHER WAY. That you don't have to take prescription pill after superscription pill. That you don't need to rely on drugs to keep your body going. That you don't have to follow the crowd and vaccinate because that's all you've ever known.

Well here I am, telling you the side that you've never heard before. There IS another way. There IS a silver lining. You just have to open your eyes to see it.