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According to the claim that vaccines or something in vaccines can be linked to autism—the source of much discussion and dissent for most of my son’s life—-autistic persons are “damaged” and “injured”; they were once “normal,” “typical” and “ok.” The notion that vaccines or mercury poisoning are the cause of autism not only poses some […]
Charlie’s lunchbox is all packed and ready to go, except that he’s got just over a month to wait before the yellow school bus pulls into our parking lot. Summer school was over last Thursday and now begins the period that suggests why, to rewrite that famous line of T.S. Eliot’s, August is the cruelest […]
The first thing I have to say about being at BlogHer was that, because I didn’t have to keep looking for a boy at my back (not that I didn’t sometimes turn and scan the room for him; it’s a reflex)—-because I was on my own, I got a chance to look at some things […]
Late Sunday afternoon Charlie was hanging around the front door when I looked at him and saw that three of his left hand fingers were bloody, and then noticed a similar Hawaiian Punch-like stain on his left cheek and a little white wadded-up-paper-looking-thing in his right thumb and finger….
“You lost a tooth!” I said.
“Tooth!” said […]
While the scientific evidence refutes a link between autism and vaccines, parents of young children can’t seem to stop worrying about this and (as a June 18th CNN story reports) are wondering: Should they vaccinate their baby? Should they space out the vaccines and have a child receive their immunizations for measles, mumps and rubella […]
“…….happy endings are possible, even if they’re not quite the endings originally envisaged.”
So an article in today’s Telegraph about love and Asperger’s syndrome describes the relationship between Sarah Hendrickx and Keith Newton. The couple met through internet dating:
……the first stage of their relationship was fiery and fraught. To Sarah, Keith was ‘a puzzle’. He’d […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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