22 year old daughter's fear of vaccination

May I ask what was traumatic about her injection at age 5? It may help to understand what the issue was in order to encourage her to reconsider her feelings on recieving the injections. The vaccine is important as it not only protects your daughter, but those around her. So it's worth getting the vaccine if she can do it. It may be the case of talking to others who've already had it and seeing what their experience was. Perhaps even seeing other people having it done in the actual setting if she is allowed. She could even see if she can have it done in a more familiar setting so she's not as stressed? I've not yet had the vaccine but I've had other injections. You can often feel the fluid as it goes in, it can be painful but that doesn't last. No two injections that I've had have ever been the same.

I have to get blood tests a few times a year to check my iron levels. I've had occasions where the needle has had to go in multiple times in order to find a vein, so really not pleasant. I've also had to inject fragmin into my belly every day for three months straight after major foot surgery. I ended up covered in bruises after that one so I can appreciate how upsetting it is.

There is a substantial amount of misinformation floating around because of the anti-vax community but you can guarantee that for every false, unsubstantiated claim, there is also science based information to counteract it. If she is worried because these anti-vax claims are colouring her judgement, it's worth seeing what the science says about it.

I'd trust that she can feel it in her. Autism can help you tune into things that gets filtered out by NTs. I had covid back in March last year and listed a whole pile of inner body experiences to my doctor (who listened cos she knows i've got good intuition with my body) and six-nine months later the health system was saying the same thing. Vaccines contain all sorts of things like heavy metals that yes I imagine we could feel.

Yeah, I saw a discussion in the FT from experts saying that whatever folk are saying it's not going to happen that people will be forced to vaccinate to keep their jobs.

It is pretty unlikely  your daughter will be forced to have a vaccine but if she works in a school she should --- i worked as a classroom assistant in a primary school for 6 months I got the a cold virus dozens of time. Its an infectious work environment. So as Robert124 says "wait for a few months" and see how Covid-19 pans out 

An extract from the National Law Review

"In England and Wales, the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 gives the government powers to prevent, control, or safeguard against the incidence or spread of infection or contamination. However, the legislation specifically provides that a person must not be required “to undergo medical treatment,” where ‘“[m]edical treatment’ includes vaccination and other prophylactic treatment.” The Coronavirus Act 2020 extends this prohibition to Scotland and Northern Ireland. Accordingly, the UK government cannot make COVID-19 vaccination mandatory."

And on further reading, in the UK employers can not force you to have a vaccine. 

good advice...about the bridge... people are so crazed about the vaccine, there should be a large contingent of teachers who refuse it. what is the government going to do ---- round them up, jail them, bind them down, inject them? i just had my vaccination yesterday. it's difficult - for some on the spectrum. i'm spending the whole couple daze recovering, and i had no side effects to speak of.

i would think a dispensation for asd would be quite the reach. 

There is an old saying, "cross a bridge when you come to it".

In other words, wait and see.  Who knows what will happen or what the schools policy may be.

We may run out of vaccines.