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Autism Vox

January 31st, 2008

What’s It All About, Eli?

According to Access Hollywood, an autistic boy plays the autistic child in ABC’s comedic legal drama “Eli Stone,” scheduled to premier tonight. This is an interesting development, to have an autistic child playing an autistic child: People have often questioned and criticized the accuracy and authenticity of actors and actresses playing autistic characters, as Dustin […]

By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 12 comments

January 30th, 2008

Ethyl Mercury Is Expelled Faster From Babies’ Bodies Than Thought, and Other Autism Truths and Autism Fictions

Autism is very real for me as it is, I think I can assume, for most of you reading this, whether you are autistic or you’re the parent, teacher, friend, grandparent, sister, brother, aunt, doctor, or otherwise know someone who has autism. Indeed, being my son’s parent has required me to think about some very […]

By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 18 comments