From the category archives:

Asperger’s

We Are in a Weight Loss Crisis

December 25, 2008

Alexander’s weight is plummeting. He lost four pounds in three weeks so we went to the pediatrician last week. Since then he’s lost another pound. He’s not hungry and when he eats he says his stomach hurts so the doctor wants us to try Zantac for 1.5 weeks to see if it gets rid of [...]

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Denis Leary – Our Kids Aren’t Autistic, Just Stupid

October 15, 2008

Denis Leary is, and has always been, an ass in my book.  He’s not a funny ass – he’s just an ass.  In his new book, he is evidently trying to speed up his rise to the throne as the King of Asses. “There is a huge boom in autism right now because inattentive mothers [...]

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Hyperlexia: A Literary Journal Celebrating the Autistic Spectrum

July 23, 2008

Hyperlexia: A Literary Journal Celebrating the Autistic Spectrum is looking for your fiction, poetry, and personal essays. Our inaugural issue is planned for October 2008. Send submissions to submissions@hyperlexiajournal.com and please include the full text of your writing in the email if you send a PDF or a Word file. Deadline for submissions is August [...]

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The Autism Puzzle by Saskia Baron

July 20, 2008

I just watched a BBC Four Documentary called “The Autism Puzzle” by Saskia Baron and found it to be one of the more balanced documentaries on autism that has been produced in recent years.  The documentary dates back to 2005 and Saskia Baron approaches it as the sister of a profoundly autistic man (Timothy) who was [...]

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Newsweek Article Highlights Chelation Study

July 9, 2008

According to Chelation Therapy: Unproven Claims and Unsound Theories by Saul Green, Ph.D: Chelation therapy, as discussed in this article, is a series of intravenous infusions containing disodium EDTA and various other substances. It is sometimes done by swallowing EDTA or other agents in pill form. When my daughter was going through her autism assessment [...]

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Following the Rules

June 20, 2008

Alexander is very rule governed. If he believes that something is a rule, he will follow it to a T. He follows through so much that earlier this year when he was coming off of Versed after a dental appointment, he managed to kick me in the head while driving without taking off his seatbelt. [...]

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Asperger’s Syndrome and Giftedness

May 6, 2008

When an individual has Asperger’s Syndrome and is also gifted, s/he falls into the category of twice exceptional(2E).  The same would be of a child with ADHD and Giftedness or a whole bevy of other conditions.  A child could even have a reading learning disability but be gifted in math and thus, twice exceptional.  Twice [...]

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