Some of us were not willing to risk MMR, but paid for single vaccines to gain the protection - rather expensive at 3 vaccines per child, £136 per vaccine and 3 children, but we had our reasons.
At the time of the "scare" my wife (a nurse) worked directly with two different colleagues, both of whose children were developing normally, both children had the MMR, both suffered a fever and went floppy the evening of vaccination day. In both cases, the children took a week to recover and had regressed significantly. Both were later diagnosed as autistic.
Having such immediate experience of what some people were saying persuaded us not to take the risk.
Getting the single vaccinations was not easy, as not only were they expensive, but the government had apparently put a limit on how much could be imported, creating a national shortage.
SteveW