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  • Early therapy mildens autism

    Number of comments: 6
    Yes, I just made up the word "mildens." It's like embiggens, but not on the Simpsons.
    A new study reported widely today has found that early intervention with therapy can ameliorate some of the manifestations of autism. The study findings fit our own personal anecdote regarding autism and our [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 11:26am EST
    by Emily

  • Thanks for all that nothin'

    Number of comments: 6
    I'm guessing that today or tomorrow, there will be a rash of posts in the blogosphere and stories in the news media about what we're all thankful for. I'm thankful, not just now but every minute of every day, for all that is good around me: my husband, children, friends,' [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 9:13am EST
    by Emily

  • Outside the box

    Number of comments: 6
    Parents in the "autism wars" tend to, I think, package one another into tidy little boxes with specific descriptives on the outside, such as "Product contains uninsightful, vaccinating, non-organic-feeding, careless, unaware, uneducated parents," or "product contains woo-loving, non-vaccinating, unscientific, blinded by anger, a-little-knowledge-is-a-dangerous-thing parents."
    And what we really ought to [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 9:47am EST
    by Emily

  • Let's talk about sex

    Number of comments: 9
    Warning: Below, I use the word "penis." If that word makes you uncomfortable, you should not have read this warning.
    Our oldest child is 8 years old. I think, for his age, that he's somewhat sexually naive, not as aware of some sex-related distinctions as perhaps other boys his age [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 11:42am EST
    by Emily

  • Hey! Pseudoscientists! Leave them kids alone!

    Number of comments: 4
    The name alone makes no sense: "Scientific Link to Autism Identified." What does that even mean? As opposed to a "nonscientific link"? A "religious link"? A "philosophical link"? A "chain link"?
    And it simply gets worse from there. First of all, if you can find a worse example of [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 7:02pm EST
    by Emily

  • A new nonsense afoot

    Number of comments: 9
    Read this one today. It starts with several paragraphs of garbage masquerading as science-speak (e.g., "By looking at extensive scientific literature they discovered a cascade of hormones that emanate from the brain (hypothalamus)." Really? Gee. That'll be a huge surprise to all those endocrinologists out there.
    Then it gets' [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:09pm EST
    by Emily

  • Empyting the grudge bucket

    Number of comments: 13
    I don't like to hold grudges. But as a woman (and I am one, in spite of my lack of girly-girlness), I apparently tend to process experience through my emotional centers more than men, which means that I have excellent emotional recall of my experiences. I didn't just make [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 9:47am EST
    by Emily

  • Follow-up on Thoughtful House suit

    Number of comments: 6
    The Austin mother in the Thoughtful House-related chelation suit has made available a statement regarding her situation, which you can find here at no2chelation.org (correction!...should never post late at night). Feel free to drop off some dollahs while you're there.
    She notes that:On this waiver Dr. Jepson also' [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 11:33pm EST
    by Emily

  • The wrong math for autism?

    Number of comments: 10
    We've been living with Everyday Math now for a few years. I detest this math program for many reasons.
    1. It asks us to use household goods that cost money, such as shaving cream, flour, vegetables, and rice.2. It requires us to own/assumes that we own household goods that' [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 10:36am EST
    by Emily

  • It was only a matter of time

    Number of comments: 2
    A local father is suing the mother of his autistic child because she refuses to sign consent to have their son treated at Thoughtful House with intravenous chelation. The parents are, of course, divorced. The mother has no lawyer, and the father has primary [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 2:53pm EST
    by Emily

  • And sometimes, kids say nothing at all

    Number of comments: 3
    Today, Dubya had his first appointment with his therapist. Nice woman. Used to this group. Vast experience with this age. Knows his issues. He went in, we had introductions. He stiffened visibly, dramatically. Made his frozen Harpo Marx face. I departed.
    Forty minutes later, she emerged [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 6:33pm EST
    by Emily

  • Kids say the darnedest things

    Number of comments: 9
    Or perhaps that should say "the damnedest things." Literally.
    Girls are taunting my son. According to the Viking, girls do this to boys. I don't recall having done this to boys as a girl, but perhaps my memory is faulty.
    I certainly don't recall ever having done the following.
    Girl [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 10:18am EST
    by Emily

  • The Mercola "Facts" redux. Now with inferences and links updates!

    Number of comments: 3
    1. "Fact": Multidose vials of seasonal and injectable H1N1 swine flu vaccines contain MERCURY (all caps theirs), which is a "known neurotoxin."Inference: Getting a flu shot will poison your brain.Observations: The actual compound of the preservative in question is called thimerosal. It consists in part (about half) of a kind [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 10:04am EST
    by Emily

  • Motor skills and autism

    Number of comments: 21
    Categorized under "Things that make you say, 'Duh,' in the morning"--Autism is apparently linked to motor skills problems.
    Really?
    I guess now I can call the phys ed teacher at TH's school and tell him that. TH, who has notable upper-body weakness, hypotonia, all the' [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 11:36am EST
    by Emily

  • Um, no thanks, Facebook

    Number of comments: 6
    Facebook just offered me this as an advertisement option. Usually, I get ads telling me that President Obama wants me to go back to school (nooooooo! I've been there already!), or ads insinuating that at my advanced age, I need to buy stuff to ward off aging. I just' [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 5:10pm EST
    by Emily

  • The secret's out

    Number of comments: 10
    TH came to me last night and asked, "Is my mouth bleeding?"
    Indeed, it was. All over everything. Dubya, it seems, in a moment of late-evening exuberance, had executed a gymnastic maneuver on the lower bunk of their bed, landing with his butt right about TH's chin. TH happened to' [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 1:00pm EST
    by Emily

  • Sugar bombs

    Number of comments: 9
    I know that "studies indicate" that sugar doesn't affect a child's behavior (they're obviously not including my children in these studies, and probably not yours, either). Regardless of what those folks find, we've seen clearly that sugar--of the refined or high-fructose corn syrup variety--sets off sugar bombs in our household [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2009, 3:17pm EST
    by Emily

  • Sigh. R-word still OK if "modern slang"

    Number of comments: 15
    There is a blog called...get ready...Retarded in Love. (link has been removed). It's written by a very very young person who thinks she can order her life Just. So. She's got a to-do list that includes getting pregnant on schedule and having, presumably, perfect and lovely healthy children. Dust off [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 6:55pm EST
    by Emily

  • Autism moms: Are you girly-girls?

    Number of comments: 13
    I have a reason for asking this question. For several years, I posted on a community message board using a gender-neutral handle. I didn't do it on purpose...it was just the handle I chose. Most women who posted on that site did use handles that indicated their sex, with terms' [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 11:52am EST
    by Emily

  • Reading the signs

    Number of comments: 4
    Like a lot of kids, autistic or not, TH is not very good at articulating his feelings. In fact, he may not even be aware that he's having these feelings, yet he shows that they're there in many ways. We always know that something, something is on his mind when [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 9:41am EST
    by Emily

  • TH is angry?

    Number of comments: 8
    If you know TH or have read enough about him here, you know that anger isn't an emotion he expresses a lot or even very clearly. His version of anger is to squinch up his face in a grimace for about 2 seconds. Then, the feeling appears to pass immediately,' [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 9:54am EST
    by Emily

  • Bullying?

    Number of comments: 9
    TH may be experiencing a little bit of bullying again at school. There are signs. Yesterday, he got in the car, made some vague allusions to children saying "violent" things to him, and then proceeded to be off the hook for the rest of the day: vocalizing, nonstop movement, flapping, [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 2:14pm EST
    by Emily

  • The Mercola "Facts" poster

    Number of comments: 6
    OK...there's a huge Mercola article alleging that the H1N1 pandemic is a "massive" illusion (created by, presumably, very large magicians with great big scary magic wands). I'm pondering tackling the entire article, but meanwhile, I think it'd be OK if I took on the "fact" sheet they offer to' [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 3:00pm EST
    by Emily

  • No more Aspergers? Poor Hans.

    Number of comments: 18
    Forget the vaccine-misogyny thing! They're about to take away my baby's label!
    The New York Times reports that the proposed DSM-V (shudder. deep breath. sigh.) will roll Asperger's into autism spectrum disorder, period, and render the diagnosis of "Asperger's" obsolete.
    Nooooooo!
    I'm kidding. TH is going to' [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 11:10pm EST
    by Emily

  • Vaccines, feminism, autism, motherhood

    Number of comments: 9
    In discussions across the Web, a theme that emerges repeatedly is, "Should a mother have her child vaccinated?" Yes, "balanced" media outlets say "parent," but the reality is that this discussion occurs primarily among mothers. A peek, for example, at the comments on this post over at BlogHer gives [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2009, 11:25am EST
    by Emily
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