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by Kristina Chew, PhD on December 16th, 2007

It goes without saying that the New York University’s “Ransom Notes” ad campaign dominated discussions in the autism community for the past two weeks. The images of the ads have been removed from the Center’s website and (as of this posting) 649 signatures have been collected in an online petition. Here’s what else was going on about autism in the past two weeks: 

• Fever?
  The December 2007 volume of Pediatrics contains what its authors note is, to their knowledge, “the first to investigate behavioral changes associated with fever in children with ASD.”
• “Post-Autistic Economics” means……..?
  “Post-autistic economics” (PAE)—which is the name for a movement that challenges the assumptions of neoclassical economics and incorporates ideas from sociology and psychology—-is not what most of us are thinking about when we hear the term “autisms” to describe the diversity of the autism spectrum.
• The Invasion of the Normal Child Snatchers
  My first post on the NYU Child Study Center’s “Ransom Notes” campaign and the myth of the changeling—little did we know where this would lead to…….
• Once Upon a Snowy Afternoon
  A snowy walk, making spring rolls, doing household chores, playing “Frosty the Snowman”: A lovely afternoon with my boy
• Autistic Boy Killed in Traffic
  Many, many sympathies to the family of 14-year-old Kevin Wilson of Garland, Texas and the other families
• Kidnapped by Autism: Making Noise about “Ransom Notes”
  The blogosphere response to the “Ransom Notes” campaign and a letter from the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network
• What’s YOUR Diagnosis?
  Your child has X: Do you have Y (or X………)?
• Brain Overgrowth in the 1st Year Linked to Autism
  My own son has a notably large head circumference and we’ve long had to buy him an adult-size bike helmet and hats.
• Rescue Me: The NYU Child Study Center’s Ransom Notes Ad Campaign
  Rescue me: That is the essence of the message of the “Ransom Notes” “public awareness campaign” that the New York University Child Study Center is launching
• Do more vaccines for NJ children mean more autism?
  A a public health advisory panel in New Jersey votes to require that all children who are in preschool or who attend daycare to get mandatory flu vaccinations.
• Would You?
  Go on a hunger strike for autism?
• Clothes For Therapy
  Beverly Cusick, a physical therapist, on TheraTogs, which were originally designed for children with “complex neuromotor disorders.”
• Top 10 Reasons Life Is Better With Charlie
  I could name 10 more, too.
• Provocative, Harsh, Upsetting: The “Ransom Notes” Ad Campaign
  The New York Times and the New York Daily News report on the “Ransom Notes” ad campaign; an online petition; discussion ’round the blogosphere.
• Autism Vox Billboard
  Coming to a billboard near you…………
• Starting Up a Dialogue about the Ransom Notes Ad CampaignHoping that a real conversation about the “Ransom Notes” campaign, and about what it is to live with autism, bulimia, ADHD, Asperger Syndrome, depression, and OCD—and to live with a child these conditions—-may emerge, and soon.

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