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Archive for August, 2005

Something New: RepAut Email Report

Wednesday, August 31st, 2005

I’m signed up to an autism based email report which (supposedly) gathers all the relevant news about autism from all over the world and emails it to recipients along with a bit of commentary and reader input. Its a great format but unfortunately the person running it has become fixated on Mercury. This is a [...]

On The Death Of An Autistic Child

Monday, August 29th, 2005

Its been an emotional few days.

The whole community, from the staunchest biomed to the most steadfast Neurodiversity supporter was shocked by the death of an autistic child.

How that shock has expressed itself is very revealing. The main instigators on the Evidence of Harm email list elected to express their condolences to the Doctors who administered [...]

Trouble In Paradise? Thoughtful House with Staffing Problems

Monday, August 29th, 2005

A few of you (if you’re a Brit like me) may remember after the MMR debacle that articles in the Sunday Times and presented in a Channel 4 ‘Dispatches’ programme followed investigative journalist Brian Deer’s progress as he totally debunked Andrew Wakefields science to the point where the GMC (General Medical Council) will be investigating [...]

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes…

Sunday, August 28th, 2005

Sometimes in life you have some fairly mad times when things happen all at once. Such has been my life over last 2 or 3 months.

Firstly of course was the birth of Tabby (we called her Tabitha Catherine – tabby cat – get it? Heheheh…I kill me) at the end of June.

Shortly after that (and [...]

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