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I'm a middle aged manic depressive from the UK. My eldest daughter is classically autistic.
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95 Disability Rights Groups Call on CMS to Issue HCBS Regulations
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The announcement of this letter came to me through the Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN). “Dear Administrator Berwick: On behalf of the National D ...
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A (head) space of my own
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Four days ago the New York Times published a fascinating piece on the hypotheses of two scientists who are positing that mental disorders of an unknown variety and number ar ...
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A better future for autistic adults
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Following on from the National Autistic Society’s I Exist campaign and the massive support for the Autism Bill in Parliament the UK Government, after working closely with an ...
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A brave Biomed group
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The website nnyautismcenter.com has the following warning posted : Alert Issued On Danger Supplement Miracle Mineral Supplement and Miracle Mineral Solution mark ...
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A brave parent speaks: How I Made a Mistake and Was Given The Opportunity to Say I’m Sorry
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Over at Emma’s Hope Book a mother has done something very brave: made a public apology for a mistake. She starts by quoting her daughter: “You put the toast in ...
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A breach of privacy
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Privacy is an important point for all of us. I blogged for a long time under a pseudonym in order to protect my child’s privacy. The subject is important enough to me th ...
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A busy week in vaccine-injury news: the Cedillo appeal
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The past week has had three somewhat major news events in the world of vaccine injury: the denial of the Cedillo appeal , the award of damages in the UK for an MMR case ...
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A Christmas message of woe from Generation Rescue and Jenny McCarthy
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I just got the Generation Rescue end-of-year fundraiser email. Jenny McCarthy tells us about how there are only two types of autism parents: Dear Fellow Warr ...
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A clarification
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The following post was written by a group of LBRB authors LBRB is produced by team of writers who do not always agree on everything. But we ...
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A Comparison of Autism Prevalence Trends in Denmark and Western Australia.
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I bring this up because there is a common argument that the autism “rates” in places like Denmark and Sweden are much lower than those in the US and elsewhere. This is u ...
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A Comparison of Urinary Mercury between Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Control Children
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Researchers are still looking at the question of whether autism is caused by mercury intoxication. One of the measures used in the past is to check the mercury content i ...
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A correction
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A commenter noted a mistake I made in a recent post, Mental health problems in youths committed to juvenile institutions: prevalences and treatment needs . As noted in t ...
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A correction
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Last year, following the autism hearing in the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, I wrote a piece Mr. Wright, is autism an epidemic or not? Why not give real examp ...
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A Decade of Left Brain/Right Brain
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2013 marks the 10 year mark for Left Brain/Right Brain. The blog actually started in June, as I recall, but June of 2003. The blog started out as a place for Kev Leitch to ...
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A difference and a disability
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I can’t recall the amount of times over the last 10 years or so that people have accused me, or other writers on this blog of saying that autism is ‘merely’ a difference. ...
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A few details from Brian Deer’s declaration
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Brian Deer’s declaration in the anti-SLAPP motion presents an interesting narrative of the history of the investigation into Andrew Wakefield’s MMR project. Of course ...
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A few points about Steve Walker’s measles/autism study
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Michael Fitzpatrick is a general practitioner and autism parent in the U.K. who has been countering misinformation for over a decade. His books include Defeating Autism: ...
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A GPS for the Developing Human Brain
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In his Director’s Blog, Tom Insel of NIMH has a piece “ A GPS for the Developing Human Brain “. I found the piece very interesting in terms of mapping gene expression ...
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A greater acceptance
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“I don’t subscribe to the notion of the ‘perfect human being’ and found the idea of selecting one child in preference to another abhorrent.” A survey by the Down’s Sy ...
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A look at the financials for Generation Rescue and the Strategic Autism Initiative
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Generation Rescue is a well known charity with a focus on alternative therapies for autism and promoting the idea that vaccines cause autism. The Strategic Autism Initiat ...
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