Ethan Lindenberger

Because of this, this question and this story, because I want to get vaccinated, and this interesting situation I was in, I saw that I quickly was in this public setting of an extremely important controversy and discussion taking place.

Now, I saw that the stories and headlines were pretty accurate for the most part.

You know, after defying anti-vax mom, Ohio teen expresses why he got vaccinated, pretty accurate.

Pretty true.

And as stated, I testified in front of the Senate committee.

So there, they said, this teen who's still vaccinated just ripped his mom's anti-vax beliefs in front of Congress.

Okay, I didn't really do that, but I said, that's fine.

And certain news outlets took it a little further.

God knows how I'm still alive.

Teenager 18 finally gets vaccinated.

and attacks his anti-vax parents.

So I did not attack my parents.

That's not accurate at all.

And, you know, really, my story was more about controversy.

It was about how my mom was bad, and I was good, and I was ripping her a new one.

Not true.

Not what was happening.

I never was rude towards my mother, and even in public settings where I expressed how her beliefs were misinformed, I said that she was a loving mother.

And that's important to understand.

Because a lot of people, I think, in the scientific community that understand why vaccines are so important can really be confused why someone would not vaccinate.