There is a saying often uttered in the autism community, "If you meet one person with autism, you've met one person with autism." Autism is not a definitional box filled with discrete behavioral, neurological, or physical descriptors - it is a spectrum filled with ranges of color and shading, nuances upon nuances, and palettes that [...]
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How glamma rolls…
Our time in Canada wound to an end today. We had a few days with the kids instead of the eight we anticipated, but we are happy we had that (there have been times during this adventure that we had our doubts about fulfilling that primary mission). It is always difficult to leave them – [...]
Touched.
I have never been a big Kiefer Sutherland fan. Not that he isn't good to look at and all, but on the whole I have not been drawn to his movies or television shows. So when I saw the advertisements for his new show - Touch - I initially dismissed it as another new show [...]
The new extraordinary…
I always cringe a bit when I hear talk of "curing" autism. I don't think we need to, or can, cure autism. I think what we need to do is understand autism. I also struggle with the labeling of those on the spectrum as having a "disorder" - especially as we see the incidence of diagnosed autism [...]
Trust, but verify…
I understand and appreciate the notion that we should not treat doctors as demigods. They are, after all, just human beings - well-educated and trained human beings in medical science, but human beings nonetheless. Human beings make mistakes; hence, sometimes doctors make mistakes. That is the premise behind second opinions. I am not a medical doctor, nor [...]
Gentle nudging…
I learned BIG news last weekend, but I was told to sit on it. I was not allowed to tell a bunch of other folks, I was not allowed to post it on Facebook and I was told quite clearly that I was not to write about it in my blog. So I sat on it...somewhat. I had to [...]
Who is responsible for the heart of a child?
When Hillary Clinton said it takes a village to raise a child she was right. Albeit, maybe not a village per se, but a society that is invested in children's well-being. After all, are we not a caring society that prescribes to the notion that children are important? I believe we are. I believe that [...]
THE NEW FORTY 