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Jonathan Mitchel Patient Expert

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Blog: http://autismgadfly.blogspot.com
I am a person with a mild autism spectrum disorder and fine motor coordination problem. I blog about current happenings in autism and also exposing all the problems and propaganda with the neurodiversity movement which is against curing autistic persons or preventing persons from becoming autistic
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Is neurodiversity's 92% figure accurate? by Jonathan Mitchel Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Autism & Autism Spectrum One of the main tenets of the neurodiversity movement is that the desire to cure autism and research in that direction will result in prenatal testing and wide scale aborti ... Read on »
New study shows high unemployment among young autists by Jonathan Mitchel Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Autism & Autism Spectrum According to a recent study by Paul Shattuck, one out of every three young adults with autism has no paid employment or college or technical education seven years after hig ... Read on »
Do I have too many Von Economo neurons by Jonathan Mitchel Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Autism & Autism Spectrum Today, I read an interesting post in the neurocritic's blog about a type of brain cell called a spindle cell or Von Economo cell. The blog entry stated that one of the area ... Read on »
IACC appointees: A sick April fools joke or ??? by Jonathan Mitchel Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Autism & Autism Spectrum Ironically, right around the time of April Fools day, the federal government announced the names of the new appointees to the public membership of the Interagency Autism Co ... Read on »
Software company stereotypes those with autism and says it's okay to exploit them by Jonathan Mitchel Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Autism & Autism Spectrum As originally reported on the autism jabberwocky blog , The Los Angeles software company, Square One, is in the process of trying to help three different autistic people fi ... Read on »
New autism genetic brain growth study may refute some urban legends by Jonathan Mitchel Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Autism & Autism Spectrum I read with interest (albeit admittedly with limited understand) the new article that demonstrates evidence for a genetic etiology for the abnormal brain growth and other ... Read on »
Does an autistic's higher perceptual capacity translate into a lucrative IT career? by Jonathan Mitchel Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Autism & Autism Spectrum I've just read an interesting post on one of my favorite autism blogs, "M.J's" Autism Jabberwocky. MJ writes about an article that appeared online in Science Daily. Cogniti ... Read on »
autism in the workplace: Ne'eman's at it again by Jonathan Mitchel Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Autism & Autism Spectrum I've previously written about Ari Ne'eman, an individual in his early 20s who has never had paid employment. In spite of his total lack of experience working, he seems to f ... Read on »
Study finds autism affects motor skills by Jonathan Mitchel Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Autism & Autism Spectrum It was with interest that I read about a new study showing that autism affects motor skills. Claudia Hilton and John Constantino of the University of Washington studied man ... Read on »
interesting parallels between FTD and autism by Jonathan Mitchel Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Autism & Autism Spectrum It was with interest that I read an article in today's L.A. times about frontotemporal dementia . The man described in the article had a variety of social judgment impairme ... Read on »
Occupy neurodiversity: A younger generation autist comes up with a winner! by Jonathan Mitchel Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Autism & Autism Spectrum I'd like to give a shoutout to teenaged antineurodiversity blogger Oliver Canby's latest post in which he draws an excellent analogy to the occupy wall street movement to ... Read on »
Will New DSM end the autism epidemic? by Jonathan Mitchel Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Autism & Autism Spectrum Fred Volkmar, director of the child study center at Yale University has made the very strong statement that changes in the new proposed DSM that are due to come out this De ... Read on »
More media attention to autistic adults in the future? by Jonathan Mitchel Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Autism & Autism Spectrum I'm gratified to see Susan Senator and The age of autism are bringing attention to the problems of autism in adulthood which are largely ignored by the media. I wrote about ... Read on »
Amazingly LBRB's Sullivan actually gets something right by Jonathan Mitchel Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Autism & Autism Spectrum One of the most well-known and widely read autism blogs is Kevin Leitch's creation ,Left Brain/Right Brain. For good reason, I've sometimes referred to them as Left Brain/ ... Read on »
Neurodiversity Plays the Murder Card once again by Jonathan Mitchel Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Autism & Autism Spectrum Persons who believe in the philosophy known as neurodiversity, that autism is not a disease or devastating disorder or in some cases state it is not even a disability, are ... Read on »
Eric Courchesne's new paper: an answer to my problem's etiology? by Jonathan Mitchel Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Autism & Autism Spectrum Lately, the new paper by Eric Courchesne and company has been receiving a fair amount of media attention. It deals with the count of neurons in a small number of postmortem ... Read on »
My disability case: The end of the line by Jonathan Mitchel Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Autism & Autism Spectrum I heard from that second lawfirm I hoped would take my SSDI case to district court. They turned me down. This means that my nearly four and a half year pursuit of this matt ... Read on »
Dr. Mottron is at it again but where's the beef? by Jonathan Mitchel Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Autism & Autism Spectrum Many people probably remember the well-known television commercial that aired regularly in 1984 for Wendy's hamburgers where the old woman asks, "where's the beef?" This ex ... Read on »
Shallow brooks are noisy redux department by Jonathan Mitchel Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Autism & Autism Spectrum Today is autistics speaking day, which MJ of the autism jabberwocky blog has commented on . I'm not sure whether or not MJ's percentages of higher functioning who are cap ... Read on »
Interesting article on tough job market for autistics by Jonathan Mitchel Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Autism & Autism Spectrum I see that U.S. News and World Report has published an interesting article on employment problems for those with autism. It rightly points out that this is the time suppor ... Read on »
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