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Australia – bad for autistic people

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

Recent events in Australia seem to indicate that if you are autistic then it would be a bad place to be. For a start, you can get away with murdering autistic kids. Daniela Dawes suffocated her 10-year-old son, Jason, at their western Sydney home in August 2003, before attempting to commit suicide. She was placed [...]

Posted in Advocacy, Autism, Neurodiversity | 6 Comments »

Jock Doubleday’s $75,000 vaccine offer

Monday, November 27th, 2006

Jock Doubleday, author of such excellent works as ‘The Burning Time (Stories of the Modern-day Persecution of Midwives)’ and ‘Lolita Shrugged (THE MYTH OF AGE-SPECIFIC MATURITY )’ (Jock is a middle aged man by the way) is most famous in the autism community as the creator of the $75,000 vaccine offer in which he; ...offers [...]

Posted in Autism, Chelation, Mercury, Thimerosal | 35 Comments »

Brutality for a burden

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

A Bronx man overwhelmed by what he called the ‘burden’ of his 12-year-old son’s autism killed the boy Wednesday morning by slashing his throat—then confessed to police when they got to his apartment, police sources said. ‘I just couldn’t take it anymore,’ Jose Stable, 40, said, according to the sources. ‘My son is just a [...]

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What the future holds

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

A recent MSNBC piece on autism entitled ‘growing up with autism’ was a well written, well researched and responsibly written article. It highlighted a worry that all parents of autistic kids have – the future. What happens when our kids become adults? “Once they lose the education entitlement and become adults, it’s like they fall [...]

Posted in Action Groups, Advocacy, Autism, Autism Epidemic, Neurodiversity | 6 Comments »