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Archive for June, 2009

It’s new! It’s spam! It’s revitaPOP: The MB12 Lollipop

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

I just got a nice spam email from Stan Kurtz, inventor. See, he invented this lollipop with methyl B12 in it to cure…well…almost everything. Actually, I am a bit confused on that point. I often am from claims in alternative medicine. You see, from his website, Mr. Kurtz states MB12 is a very unique vitamin [...]

Posted in Autism, Extreme biomed, Generation Rescue, Orgs, b12 | 17 Comments »

Transition into adulthood – problems for autistics

Saturday, June 20th, 2009

The recent success of the Autism Bill is in part due to a decade of patient work by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Autism APPGA is a formal cross-party backbench group of MPs and Peers who share an interest in autism and Asperger syndrome. It was set up in February 2000. Its role is [...]

Tags: All Party Parliamnetary Group on Autism, National Autistic Society, Transition
Posted in Adults, Advocacy, Autism | 2 Comments »

Autism mum needs help of autism community – please help

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

I tweeted a few days ago about the awful thing that has happened to my friend Melissa, an American single mum with two sons of whom one is autistic. BUt nothing can say it as powerfully as her own words. Is where I am. To say I’m overwhelmed is an absolute understatement. My house burned [...]

Posted in Autism | 7 Comments »

Autism and gender identity

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

Two abstracts from IMFAR (the International Meeting for Autism Research) caught my eye as they discussed an area I haven’t seen discussed much (if at all): gender identity and autism. The 2008 paper was from the Autism Research Centre (ARC), R.M. Jones first author, and Simon Baron-Cohen’s group: Female-to-male transsexuals and autistic traits. The second [...]

Posted in Autism, Science, Simon Baron-Cohen | 12 Comments »