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Autistic Children Have Heavier Brains?

A story picked up by several news outlets, including Reuters and ABC News (whose version I’m critiquing in this post), reports results of a small study published in the Journal of the American Medical Associat…
Autism Affects Everyone

I was hoping Saiqa Akhter’s murders of her two autistic children would be the last time we heard of such a thing in the autism community, but shortly after came the murder-suicide where Micaela Jackson killed h…
Stigma of Having a Psychiatrist

Unless you have been living under a rock this past week you read, watched TV, listened to talk radio, about the firing of Juan Williams by NPR. No this is not a political diatribe, but a commentary about the fall out…
ADHD and Autism not taken seriously for girls?

Unique challenges are presented to anyone that enters into existence in this world. Females endure the tougher and more painful process of giving birth, deal with a consistent barrage of stereotypes that attempt t…
The Ostriches are Plentiful

But their heads are well above the sand. A survey of over 1,500 parents conducted by the University of Michigan, in a story reported by the Associated Press, finds that 25% of those surveyed believe the now bogus co…

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