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Autism Vox

September 14th, 2008

The Sense of Humor Pill

I wrote a few days ago about a new study about how parenting disabled children can become less taxing over time. This has been our experience in many ways over the years with Charlie, though he has yet to have any really serious medical issues (he has certainly had some very serious behaviors problems). […]

By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 3 comments

April 29th, 2008

The Help Is There

Nuala Gardner’s son Dale was born in 1988 and diagnosed with autism. In an essay in yesterday’s Guardian entitled The day I could no longer cope with my autistic son, she writes about how she contemplated suicide when her son was three years old but did not:
At the time I felt incredibly guilty about how […]

By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 4 comments