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Autism Light: Dr. Stanley Greenspan

Two years ago today the autism community lost a hero who made a tremendous contribution in the treatment of autism. Dr. Stanley I. Greenspan was the influential child psychiatrist responsible for the development of th…
A Real Look at DSM V

Lately the internet is a buzz with all sorts of chaos about the proposals for the new DSM (V) set for 2013. Petitions are flying, people are screaming and panicking...... STOP. Please stop. And please read this through…
Psyching Up - Becoming Liberated

Have been dinking on facebook this month, mostly just filling in the profile stuff. My religious preference is the cult of cthulhu. That one has really struck me funny ever since it was on South Park and the Goth k…
Aspies and Adolescence

Sometime you wonder whether your child will ever get the little nuances that are necessary in order to get through life. There are times when everything seems to be going quite well that I fool myself into thinking…
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…
New Doctor is Working Out Well

I finally had that talk with the new psychiatrist about collegeman. He had implied in all of our meetings that collegeman could not pursue the education he wanted because of his autism. Whether it was telling me how la…
Autism from my point of view.....

I am not a psychologist or behavioural specialist or a Psychiatrist. (I'm not Elmo either but he is here for a reason) So, I am not going to talk about the triad of impairments or assessment scales etc etc.
An Appointment with Dr. J

First, let me tell you what Elsie P just did (and she did it yesterday too!). She put my computer in full screen mode, and I couldn't get it out. I had to call Dad, who told me to use Task Manager so I could End Tas…
What makes You Smile?

This post is an attempt to think of the good things in my life. My doctor doesn't think that my depression needs to be treated, per se, but that I need to do some basic "perking up" things and reminders of the good th…
Should Autism Spectrum Disorder be renamed Synaptic Disorder?

The word "Autism" has become romanticized, occasionally glorified, in public discussions of the neurological disorder. It is literally being stripped of its meaning as a diagnostic label of a mental disorder and i…