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Growing up in a suburb outside of the Bay Area in California in the 1970s, I knew I wasn’t normal.
I’m Chinese American—-all of my grandparents were born in Southern China—and I was the only Asian student in my classes. Nobody else had black hair or a last name like “Chew.” My family celebrated the usual […]
Autism no obstacle to scoring As.
Well of course not!
Kudos to 13-year-old S. Vishnudev, who is autistic, for scoring A’s in Science and English in the Ujian Pencapaian Sekolah Rendah (UPSR), a national examination taken by students in Malaysia.
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With the Light: Raising an Autistic Child is a new manga by Keiko Tobe about a mother, Sachiko, and her efforts to take care of her autistic son, Hikaru. MangaBlog notes that, while With the Light attempts to convey a definite educational message, it is also entertaining. The story seems to be told mostly from […]
23-year-old Andrew Chew (no relation to myself) learned to draw using a pencil on paper when he was six. He had stopped talking when he was four years old and started again at the age of 16, the October 18th The Star (Malaysia) reports. He paints with watercolors and also uses recycled materials and toothpicks; […]
If you thought from reading the title that this blog has become, for one post, a travelogue, I am afraid that you thought wrong: This is a post about a two-fold “miracle cure” for autism, via horseback riding and shamans. While both of these are described (in today’s Times Online and on a website) as […]
Back on July 18th, Victoria Elizaga left a comment on the post Autism Consciousness Week in the Philippines. Victoria, I regret it has taken me so long to respond—-here is the comment:
“Hello everyone! I’m marrid to a Phillipeno and our youngest has just been diagnosed with ADHA. My mother and I both have dyslexia […]
While not included in the DSM criteria for autism, catastrophic thinking is something that seems to happen regularly to my son Charlie. The Michigan Tech counseling center defines catastrophic thinking as
tending “to exaggerate the discomfort that a negative outcome will involve” and also tending “to view him or herself as totally helpless to deal […]
Talk to the Chos is the title of an op-ed by Dave Cullen in today’s New York Times. Cullen, who is writing a book about the Columbine High killers, notes a sad—a terrible irony: Fourteen days before Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people at Virginia Tech, “[a] judge ruled …… that depositions by the parents of […]
Autism is everywhere—–by which I do not mean that, this being April and therefore Autism Awareness Month, we are hearing about autism—what it is and what to do about it—-everytime one turns around, gets on the internet, watches a popular TV show. By “autism is everywhere,” I mean that autism is a global phenomenon. […]
“What is Chinese tradition and what is the movies?”
writes Maxine Hong Kingston at the beginning of The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, which was published 30 years ago last fall. To restate the question in words more obviously connected to this this blog:
What is autism and what is the movies?
Or: How […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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