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Last Sunday a group of experts on mitochondrial disorders met for a meeting in Indianapolis to discuss the case of Hannah Poling, whose underlying mitochondrial disorder was found to have been aggravated by vaccines, after which she developed symptoms of autism. A June 30th New York Times article announced the meeting and noted the case […]
All three of us were born in the USA: Jim on the East coast, me out West, and Charlie inbetween in a city on the Mississippi. Happy 4th of July (if you’re American)—-though this particular holiday isn’t alwyas the easiest for autistic individuals. Fireworks are loud and it seems that every town here in New […]
Our very non-sleepy summer continues, on the homefront (Charlie’s good, though he looked a little resigned when told he has no school today and Friday, due to the 4th of July) and on the autism front: Buses that don’t know where they’re going, an autistic boy found walking after the highway—and some good news too. […]
19-year-old Erik Weber has graduated from Grossmont College with an associate’s degree and plans to attend Point Loma Nazarene University to get his bachelor’s degree, today’s Sign On San Diego reports. Weber was diagnosed with autism when he was 3 years old and was not really verbal until he was 8. His mother, Sandy Weber, […]
Don’t know about you, but summer has so far been anything but slower-paced and lazy around here. A friend who’s also an academic likes to say that he got into “the business” for the three-months summers: guess I take after Charlie, though, and do better with the same old same old routine of things. I’ve […]
The driver of a minivan taking a 9-year-old autistic boy, Justin Colon, to summer camp got lost for four hours and failed to bring the child to his program. When Justin’s mother, Dawn Gorman, contacted the bus driver by cell phone, the driver was unable to say where he was and stopped answering the phone […]
Rett Syndrome has been linked to mutations in the MeCP2 gene; Rett Syndrome causes impairments in language and cognitive and fine motor skills and seizures; it is, according to the International Rett Syndrome Foundation, often misdiagnosed as autism. A recent study published in the June 30 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of […]
Can you imagine having this said to you?
“One family I met took their child to the doctor and the doctor said: ‘If he was a dog you would put him down.’”
As quoted in the February 7 Campbelltown-McArthur Advertiser (Australia).
Tags: Animals, asd, asperger, australia, autism, autism blog, disabilities blog, disability, doctors, dogs, Family, family blog, Parenting, […]
Tuesday morning Jim and I were interviewed for an autism documentary in the making. The director and his crew came to my office in Jersey City, which is in an old single-family house, with barely any space between it in and the neighboring houses (one of which contains my college’s mailroom). Jim and I were […]
Yelling at Charlie is a 100% surefire guaranteed way to assure that he won’t do what I ask him (does it work with anyone, really?). He’s been so sound sensitive these past few months as it is, often putting his hands over his ears and, regardless of muggy June Jersey weather, snuggling the hood of […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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