Age of Autism to Autism Families: Make your children suffer
Your pretty red house is engulfed in a roaring fire. You keep feeding the fire. Maybe petrol will help. Pour it on. Maybe some oil. Pour that on too. You don’t know. Nobody knows. Some guy you met on the internet tells you he’s a fireman and that the best way to stop a fire is to try and smother it with bone dry hay. Your burns are bad. Your kids burns are worse. Do you throw them out of a window where a few other ‘fi

Blog housekeeping
Just a little update on LB/RB news. First and foremost, the Crowdscience popup asking for opinions is gone. I’ve got enough data now to take over the world ensure any future realignment of the design meets users needs better and better. Apologies for the length of time it stayed and the oddness of some of the questions. I really don’t care how much you earn for example ;) Secondly, this is sadly th

Bob Wright snubs autistic adults, the same group who live in poverty
The New York Post reported on Autism Speaks founder Bob Wright having a grumpy slap at adult autistic people who were protesting the fact that Autism Speaks still has no autistic representation on its Board. Bob Wright had harsh words for protesters who tried to muck up the A-list benefit concert he put on at Carn

Autism treatment: Science hijacked to support alternative therapies
Such is the title of the latest article in the Chicago Tribune by Trine Tsouderos and Patricia Callahan. The article is subtitled: Researchers’ fears about misuse of their work come true. Go no

Eugenic Arguments in the Times
Today’s Times carries an article that suggests that people with learning difficulties should not be allowed to have children because it would cost to much to support them. The children would suffer and some of these parents are also autistic “which will make loving and consistent parenthood extremely difficult.”