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There’s been plenty of debate about whether or not there is an epidemic of autism; about whether or not the increase in the prevalence rate of autism (now 1 in 150) is due to our being better able to diagnose and count cases of autism, or whether there is some actual something that can be […]
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 […]
Earlier today, anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker spoke on CBS2 Chicago about the so-called “autism epidemic” and the changes in the diagnostic criteria for autism; his research on the prevalence of autism in Korea; the mercury-autism issue; and his recently published book, Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism. A few quotes from Dr. Grinker:
“It looks […]
In a study recently presented at the Society for Research in Child Development in Atlanta, “peculiar behaviors reminiscent of autism” were observed in 50 month old children who “had endured untold misery in Romanian orphanages — institutions notorious for their cruel conditions.” As reported in the January 24th Ped Med installment on autism, […]
On reviewing the topics of my ten most recent posts, I have detected a common thread:
Definitions: Prevalence and Epidemic
An Epidemic of Discovery
A theory of attraction…….and epidemic?
See it?
Even though whether autism is an epidemic appears to be the autism topic du jour, this post will not be on this subject.
This post is about the experience […]
But is there, in fact, an autism epidemic?
Asks Arthur Allen today in a review of Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism by Roy Richard Grinker in today’s Slate. Allen, author of Vaccine, continues:
Most of the scientists who study the disease—though not all—believe that any increase in recent decades in autism incidence, as […]
George Washington University anthropology professor Roy Richard Grinker’s important book, will be published next month. An interview with him about autism’s many meanings appears in the January 15th US News and World Report; you can read it online today. The questions posed to Grinker, father of 15-year-old Isabel, are familiar:
Why has the number […]
Strong, and indeed acrimonious, words were leveled at the “movement” of “the neurodiverse,” in the words of David Kirby and of autism mother Kim Stagliano this week, with responses from many a blogger. Among the points of contention is that the notion of the neurodiversity is all well and fine if you are an adult […]
A new book about autism and a mother from India: You think, “I’ve already read about that here—-Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism by Roy Richard Grinker, an anthropologist at George Washington University and father of Isabel, who has autism?
But it is a different new autism book I am referring to, one that is […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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