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Autism Vox

June 23rd, 2008

The Birthday Meal, With a Twist

Composer Allen Shawn writes about a birthday meal for his 59-year-old twin sister, Mary, who has lived in an institution for the mentally retarded in Maryland since she was 8 year old, in last Sunday’s New York Times magazine. For years and years, the meal has been the same—”chicken salad, tomatoes, rolls with butter, iced […]

By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 5 comments

March 13th, 2008

Special Diet, Charlie Style

There was a time (mercifully brief) when Charlie would only eat chocolate chip cookies. This was back in the spring of 1999: We had just taken him (permanently, though we did not yet know it) out of daycare, where he was known to “carbo load” on biscuits, pancakes, and the like. We were living in […]

By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 19 comments