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To my office in Jersey City where he kept going down the hill towards a parking lot full of fascinating gravel—-a stop for gas and a 7up—-onto the IKEA store in Elizabeth where he carried one of those yellow bags as I put things into it—-back home where Charlie got mad at me for telling […]
Embracing Autism: Connecting and Communicating with Children in the Autism Spectrum is a new book edited by Robert Parish, whose autistic son Jack is now a teenager. Parish has also made a number of DVDs about autism including Come Back Jack and ASD 101; he is one of many parents of autistic children whom I […]
Neon-bright marquees and music (from B.B. King’s theater–Buckwheat Zydeco is playing) and tour buses driving up halfway onto 42nd street and Russian Spanish Korean Twi being spoken and the smell of the gyros and steam from the subway grates: That was what Charlie walked through, holding Jim’s arm and grinning, with my parents and me […]
I shouldn’t even have to say that. Period.
Someone did, on CBS’ Big Brother TV show: Adam Jasinski, who is the PR Manager for the United Autism Foundation (UNIAF). Here’s a video clip in which Jasinski talks about taking autistic children to a hair salon for kids with special needs “so the retards can get it […]
A “group of German researchers” has announced that they have “perfected the method for inducing autism.”
??!!!?!?!???
They have also, it is parenthetically noted, figured out how to “cure” autism (this study on reversing symptoms of autism and Fragile X is cited). Cure being a fighting word in discussions about autism, I’ll note that this “autism-inducing drug” […]
More than a few readers noted that “big heads” run in their families (and more than few noted that this is not the case, too). A CNN video contains interviews with Dr. Eric Courchesne and Dr. Karen Pierce of UC San Diego, with brain scans of young autistic children in contrast to “typical” children. Dr. […]
It’s been oft-quoted that New York Times bestselling author/autism mother/celebrity Jenny McCarthy got her education in how to help—recover; cure—-her son from autism from Google U. (See page 11 of Louder Than Words: A Mother’s Journey in Healing Autism: “I decided to start doing some research—and by research. I mean Google. By the end of […]
Aidan and Blaise are brothers and are both autistic—-their father, Gregory Abowd, a human computer interaction professor at Georgia Tech, has invented Care Log, a computer and video system. Science Daily has a video of the technology, which consists of a camera mounted overhead; a button can be pressed to record “’something interesting’” (in the […]
In the latest segment of America’s Next Top Model, Heather, who has Asperger Syndrome, and the other girls go to China. Her expressions in these photos remind me of some Charlie regularly makes: He too screws up his eyes and smiles and looks out of the corners of his eyes, when he seems to be thinking; some […]
My mom and dad made a point of telling me how much they liked the CNN special on autism, Finding Amanda that aired last Monday (and was supposed to be re-aired Friday night, but got pre-empted by live programming on Larry King). Charlie calls my parents by the Cantonese words for “grandfather” and “grandmother,” “Gong Gong” and “Po […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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