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I'm Melissa, your Mindless Mommy. I started this blog in 2007 to discuss my journey as a mom of two children on the autism spectrum.

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I am also a freelance writer and a college student. In my 30s I discovered what I wanted to be when I gew up and I'm studying to be an SLP.

Archive: January 24th 2008

Mutterings of a Mindless Mommy - Site Redesign

I have redesigned the site.  I’m not sure that I like it all right now and I may tweak it a bit but for the most part I like it - the layout, the header, etc look good.  I might tweak it a bit over the next few days.

Autism Speaks Sues a Teenager with Asperger’s Syndrome

More Autism Speaks controversy - this time the organization has sued the owner of a website that was a parody of the Autism Speaks site.  The website, http://www.ntspeaks.org, is no longer online after receiving a cease and desist type of letter from Autism Speaks’ lawyers.  Evidently the owner of the site was being sued for $90,000 for, among other things, copyright infringement.  If you noticed, I used the word “was”; the lawsuit has been dropped.  The individual being sued just happens to be underage so Autism Speaks dropped the lawsuit creating a bit of a chuckle among the supports of NTSpeaks. 

Yesterday, the owner of the NTSPeaks site (known as abscout) states he is willing to be interviewed on the topic.  For more information on contacting abscout check out his post on aspiesforfreedom.com.  For more fun on the topic view a post on the Autism Speaks message board started by the one, the only, Autism Diva!  As of this blog post there are 10 pages of responses to the Diva’s post.