Autism Awareness Month. Walks everywhere. People are holding all sorts of awareness events. It’s so remarkable. Many parents remember where the Autism “movement” was 20 or more years ago. I can’t even imagine how lonely and isolating that must have felt. I only remember how our family felt in 2002 upon hearing our oldest son’s [...]
Tags: autism awareness, Autism Education, Autism Information, Autism Therapy
Wow…here we are again. Another “vaccine” court says that thimerosal doesn’t “cause” autism. Has nothing to do with autism. And vaccines are safe.
Hmmm….
Let’s think about this for a minute.
In 1999, thimerosal was taken OUT of all childhood vaccines (except for the flu shot). Safe, huh? Thimerosal is a known neurotoxin (mercury). But, it isn’t the [...]
Tags: Autism Education, Autism Information, Autism Therapy, Vaccine, vaccine court
So, the CDC finally weighed in with their numbers last week. 1 in 110 children in this county with autism. That’s actually lower than previously announced (1 in 91), but considering that it’s the CDC (sorry, had to take a gratuitous swipe).
Now comes the fighting within the autism community. And quite frankly, it makes me [...]
I was born in Central Florida. Every time the show “Flipper” came on, I was glued to my TV set. I envied Sandy and Bud as they swam with the dolphin Flipper every day (I caught it every weekday afternoon in syndication). Little did I know back then that I would be blogging about Flipper? [...]
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So many therapies, so little time. There are new types of therapies for autism popping up all over the country. Some seem quite promising. Some…I will politely say, it makes me think of the days of leeches and “magic” tonics.
These people want our money in exchange for “curing” our kids. They especially prey upon the [...]
Tags: ABA, Autism Education, Autism Information, Autism Therapy