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Language, culture and autism
Mike Danatos left this interesting comment on one of my pages. I decided to blog it because it deserves a wider circulation. I am currently a Grad Student in an ABA program at Rutgers University. I am...
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Disablism and autism
April was Autism Awareness Month in the USA. Its ending coincides with Blogging Against Disablism Day, May 1st. On this day we are invited to write on any subject, specific or general, personal, social...
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Blogging about Thinking
Kev just nominated me for a Thinking Blogger award. The official rules for participation in the Thinking Blogger Awards meme are as follows: 1. If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links...
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When your normalcy gets too big.
NTs who struggle with theory of mind. Last week I spent a very pleasant and productive two days attending a conference organized by Autism West Midlands and the Autism Awareness Centre. It was very...
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‘It is not a disease, it is a way of life’
This article is in today’s Guardian. It provides a useful introduction to the positions of some of the supporters of autism acceptance, including myself and fellow bloggers Kev Leitch and Larry...
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A tale of two autisms
The Sunday Times has published a thoughtful piece on autism by Mark Henderson, entitled ‘We ask ourselves, can we separate Alex and autism?’ Alex is 12 years old and described as being “at the less...
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autism, demons and disordered thinking
Kev has just blogged about an interesting discussion on ABMD, an email list devoted to biomedical interventions for autism. The bare bones are that a parent asked some obvious questions about how many...
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Apna Asmaan
“Learning to accept autistic kids is crucial.” So says Kaushik Roy, the father of a son who, according to his father “is mildly autistic, a slow learner and not like regular children.” Roy is a...
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a real debate about curing autism.
A recent report in the Guardian provoked some furious responses in their Comment is Free section. The story itself was a fairly innocuous account of another study by Simon Baron-Cohen in support of...
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Think Differently Campaign and Treating Autism
The Independent today published a letter signed by leading members of Treating Autism, [TA] a UK charity which believes that autism is treatable using the biomedical methods championed by Defeat Autism...
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