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  • Disability Rights Community vs. Autism Speaks

    [sent to family and friends] The letter below is the latest step in a national and international protest against the U.S. organization known as Autism Speaks. Countless attempts have been made to impress upon the organization that its public rhetoric, policies and practices are profoundly harmful to ALL Autistic citizens, and [...]
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    Posted: October 10, 2009, 10:15am EDT
    by dkmnow

  • Deficit-model feeds anti-Autistic prejudice

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    [Originally posted on June 24, 2009, as a comment on Helene Guldberg's Psychology Today article, "How the quack industry harms autistic children," an interview with Michael Fitzpatrick, discussing his book, Defeating Autism: A Damaging Delusion.] Not a bad article – especially in contrast to the kind of “information” that currently dominates [...]
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    Posted: July 04, 2009, 12:20am EDT
    by dkmnow

  • Learning By Example

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    Yes, mainstream “values” set the example. And, yes, our youth internalize those “values” and follow that example — albeit, sometimes too explicitly to suit our comfort and convenience: “The video was made by girls at a Spanaway, Washington school who apparently had a falling out with a classmate, Piper. The clip [...]
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    Posted: May 25, 2009, 7:23pm EDT
    by dkmnow

  • I resisted. But it was futile.

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    Yes, it was inevitable. And now it’s done. I am now officially “Twitterpated.” The inexplicably enthusiastic should note, however, that I am NOT mobile, and email is still the most reliable way to contact me. Don’t Blackberry me before I’m dead. That is all. As you were. Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: twitter [...]
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    Posted: May 24, 2009, 11:42am EDT
    by dkmnow

  • New GAO Report: Schools Abuse Disabled Kids

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    ["GAO" = Government Accountability Office, United States of America] From a new entry on the Mother Jones blog: GAO: Schools Abuse Disabled Kids — By Jen Phillips | Tue May 19, 2009 11:07 AM PST A new GAO report shows that the Judge Rotenberg Center in Massachusetts isn’t the only place where developmentally disabled [...]
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    Posted: May 19, 2009, 5:53pm EDT
    by dkmnow

  • Katie Couric’s Terrorphobia Inc.

    Number of comments: 6
    To be fair, most of the corporate media float these sensationalist red herrings almost to the exclusion of all else. Nevertheless… Tonight on CBS News, Couric plugged an upcoming segment promising to examine the presidential candidates’ positions on what she called “one of the most serious threats to this country, Islamic [...]
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    Posted: October 23, 2008, 7:53pm EDT
    by dkmnow

  • APA Complicity in Abuse and Torture

    A message from the Psychologists For Social Responsibility discussion group brings good news, and bad. A majority of the APA membership have made a significant step toward redeeming the organization, at least on the issue of participating in — and thus, tacitly condoning — inhumane treatment of detainees. Many such organizations [...]
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    Posted: September 18, 2008, 2:43am EDT
    by dkmnow

  • Yearbook Too Good For Short Bus Rabble?

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    Or is it just another case of the same old pedestrian status quo negligence, born of socially constructed ignorance, that always governs the behavior of the privileged toward atypical and non-privileged members of society? Does it matter which? Intent may signify malice, but if the cause is mere ignorance and carelessness, [...]
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    Posted: June 18, 2008, 3:41pm EDT
    by dkmnow

  • For All Our Mothers, Yours and Mine, Then, Now and Forever

    Arise, then, women of this day! Arise all women who have hearts, whether our baptism be that of water or of fears! Say firmly: “We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies. Our husbands shall not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause. Our sons shall [...]
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    Posted: May 11, 2008, 1:51am EDT
    by dkmnow

  • In Search of Awareness

    Number of comments: 5
    or, The Ghost of Easters Past … For those in search of Autism Awareness, I suggest you start by turning OFF your television. . As a child, my experience of Easter was mixed. My early memories include the fun, the frivolous, and the unfortunate, the curious and the catastrophic, the “renewal” of spring [...]
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    Posted: April 15, 2008, 6:54pm EDT
    by dkmnow

  • Because someone had to do it

    Number of comments: 10
    So there. Next? — For those few who (owing to their living under a rock, I guess) are as yet unaware: Q: Who is “katleen”? A: “I Am Kathleen.” Q: Oh, you mean “Kathleen.” Don’ look so “leejun” to me. Whyzit such a big deal? A: Because the “subpoena” [PDF] is a retaliatory abuse of power, [...][...]
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    Posted: April 07, 2008, 7:33am EDT
    by dkmnow

  • Shoemaker’s Witch-Hunt: An Open Letter

    Number of comments: 10
    [Lists of dozens more blog entries in support of Kathleen Seidel can be found at Holford Watch, and I Speak of Dreams, and The Voyage, and Natural Variation, and ....] [WARNING: extreme satire ahead!] To The Right Honourable Clifford J. Shoemaker Attorney At Law Dear Mr. Shoemaker, While skimming the “subpoena” [PDF] you recently served to [...]
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    Posted: April 04, 2008, 7:18pm EDT
    by dkmnow

  • Autism Awareness: “Wait — you’re saying that YOUR prejudice is a ’symptom’ of MY autism?”

    Number of comments: 8
    So, the dreaded “Autism Awareness Month” has arrived, and thus, the seasonal deluge of parental angst and professional avarice shall soon be upon us. For my own part, I will indeed be attempting to participate in the “Blogging for Autism Awareness” project. Here, have a button: [deleted by host] As words are [...]
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    Posted: April 01, 2008, 8:41am EDT
    by dkmnow

  • Who will teach journalists how science works?

    Number of comments: 4
    Scientific Blogging’s Michael White has a very interesting new piece (link below) on one aspect of how science is often (mis)represented in popular media. I don’t feel inclined to argue pro or con on any of the particulars of the case he examines, although I do have a great deal [...]
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    Posted: March 10, 2008, 3:42am EDT
    by dkmnow

  • Evidence of Barm

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    (or, “Data?! We don’t need no stinkin’ data!“) So, the Gub’ment conceded that one girl’s quasi-autistic characteristics might have been aggravated by some jab or other … and that’s conclusive proof that autism is caused by vaccines. Gawd, I love America! Big Pharma must be peeing their socks in delight over [...]
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    Posted: March 08, 2008, 3:19pm EST
    by dkmnow

  • Update On Posts Blocked by NYU/CSC “Town Hall”

    As was made clear by events on and following Tuesday, Feb. 26, NYU’s Child Study Center failed to live up to its promise of providing an open forum for discussion of children’s mental health (though they would have us believe otherwise). However, it would appear that Dr. Harold S. Koplewicz [...]
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    Posted: March 05, 2008, 3:25pm EST
    by dkmnow

  • How NYU/CSC’s “Town Hall Meeting” SHOULD Have Been Done - A Coincidental Demonstration

    For over two months, they continually protested of their eagerness to listen, to welcome the voices of the concerned, to come together with all and work hand-in-hand to help the children … Mmmmmm-hm. Via the purely unrelated vehicle of yesterdays’s liveblogging on the ongoing scandal surrounding the political lynching of former Alabama [...]
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    Posted: March 04, 2008, 3:17am EST
    by dkmnow

  • Just Because…

    Happily, I have just been informed that I have been added to the incomparable Autism Hub lineup, and by way of introduction, I can think of nothing more appropriate than:   There was a fish called the gillygoofang… which swam backward to keep the water out of its eyes.   The gillygoofang bewildered all the [...]
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    Posted: March 02, 2008, 6:18pm EST
    by dkmnow
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