I agree with you. I believe the "vaccines cause autism" is missing the mark, but not by much. In my view, it would be more accurate to state "heavy metal poisoning" causes neurological damage (autism). The metals we acquired from the environment, food, medicines, and vaccines. Baby food/formula has been tested with very high levels of lead, mercury, arsenic, etc. Especially imported food from China and India. So if a 2 year old has been fed a steady diet of these prepackaged rice meal smoothies, applesauce, etc., then gets pumped full of metals at vaccination time, it could simply be the straw that broke the camels back.

While anecdotal, I have read about doctors having success reversing autism symptoms in kids by going through a heavy metal detox program.

To my knowledge, all of the safety tests for vaccines are done in isolation, and never examine the total cumulative vaccine adjuvant load on a child, let alone the huge environmental variables. I've only seen that calculated by the vaccine skeptic side, and it didn't look good.