This Week’s Top Posts
Classes started at the college where I teach last Wednesday, so I knew it would be a busy week. As the posts below suggest, the past week turned out to be far busier, and intenser, and more emotionally wrenching, than I had bargained for.
Wishing the family of Katie McCarron much peace: Katie will be remembered.
- Autism and Representation: New Book
Autism and Representation is the title of a new book just published at the end of 2007 by Routledge Press and edited by Mark Osteen, a Professsor of English and Director of Film Studies at Loyola College in Maryland and the father of an autistic teenager. The book is the first scholarly book on autism in the humanities and contributors include scholars from the academic fields of English, disability studies, cultural history, rhetoric, classics, film studies, neuroscience, communication, and psychology and autistic adults. (I have an essay in the book, on poetry and autism.) - The Magic Supplement?
Why do some attribute their child’s progress most of all—if not solely—-to the biomedical treatments, while school is only referred to in passing? - Trial of Karen McCarron, Day 6
Psychiatrist Joseph Glenmullen testifies that former pathologist Karen McCarron was suffering from psychotic depression when she killed her 3-year-old autistic daughter, Katherine “Katie” McCarron, on May 13, 2006. - Bye Green Car
After almost 9 years and a lot of miles, we say good-bye to our faithful green stationwagon. - All They Really Need to Know They Learned at Google U
Rather than “trolling though musty books for their term papers,” kids these days are also “regurgitating whatever material pops up in their Web browser.” Who needs a “brain dead neurologist” (as McCarthy refers to one of her son’s doctors) when you’ve got the U of Goo? - Mercury in Retrograde
Mercury is moving “back out of the picture” as a cause of autism. And it’s about time. There are many other pressing issues that should be at the center of discussions in the autism community—the possibility of a mercury-autism link has taken center stage for too long. - Elementary, My Dear Mr. Handley
Generation Rescue founder J.B. Handley fancies that he has ferreted out a conspiracy about the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee—-but I regret to inform him that it is all in his imagination. - Karen McCarron Ruled Guilty on All Counts
Karen McCarron is found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder, one count of obstructing justice and one count of concealment of a homicidal death. - A Unified Theory of Autism
Geneticist Michael Wigler has proposed a “unified genetic theory of autism” based on his research on spontaneous mutation. - Not a Catastrophe
David Kirby, David Kirby, when will you stop referring to autism as a catastrophe, a health crisis, comparable to cancer, etc.?
And thank you to biomarker-driven mental health for including Autism Vox on the latest edition of Gene Genie (which contains a reference to one of my husband Jim’s favorite movies).
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