I haven't seen this posted here yet. A friend shared it on Facebook, so I'm signal boosting.

Riverside Cop Tricks Autistic Teen Into Buying Pot

The skinny:

The ordeal began on the first day of school last fall. The family had just moved to a new neighborhood and their son began his senior year at a new school, Chaparral High, in the Temecula ( Read more... )

I hesitated to share this at first, since I know we are all frustrated with the ample ("ample," note the sarcastiquotes) support shown for autistic children compared with autistic adults; however, I thought it was a nice short, since Josh seems like a cool and thoughtful little guy, and his mom seems very cool and understanding. It was especially ( Read more... )

Do any of you have experience with Phantosmia (phantom smells ( Read more... )

This is the final one. Quoting from their blog (for those of you who don't follow it):

"And we have a follow up to last month's autism charity donation. Thanks to all who recommended the Autistic Self Advocacy Network for future support, we reached out to a local Northern Virginia chapter, who put us in touch with ASAN's president, Ari Ne'eman ( Read more... )

I thought it would be cool to do a blog post with as many links to autistic artists' websites as possible. If you know of an autistic artist's website, please post the link in the comments.

Thanks!

Edited to add:

Thanks to everyone who's contributed so far. I've started making a list here: eternalstranger.com. I'm still collecting, so I'll add ( Read more... )

When I saw that luminousmotion's concerns about Autism Speaks had been forwarded to ThinkGeek's PR department, I figured the best course of action would be to get in touch with the PR department directly-that would be shane@thinkgeek.com. I sent a short email this morning (to the effect of: Autism Speaks does not help autistic people, try the ASAN instead), ( Read more... )

ThinkGeek apparently does monthly donation drives; for April they have announced they will donate to Autism Speaks. The story is on their blog, here.Since there was just discussion of the successful letter-writing campaign to CafePress, perhaps one would be appropriate for ThinkGeek as well? I imagine they're probably bound to be even *more* ( Read more... )

I'm sorry I don't have much to contribute to the community; I'm hoping you guys will have some practiced, brute-forced insight into this situation. It seems the central issue is my tendency towards awkward frankness, and my inability to be tactfully diplomatic.

( tl;dr: I need tips on negotiating a salary. )

The Asperger's Syndrome Page on TVTropes is actually pretty good!

I haven't read all the way through it yet because I'm in no attention span mode right now, but it looks like they did their homework and aren't just parroting stereotypes. And I like that they got cognitive empathy vs. affective empathy down.

A 1998 study that unleashed a major health scare by linking childhood autism to a triple vaccine was "an elaborate fraud," the British Medical Journal (BMJ) said.

“The BMJ says Sunday Times investigative journalist Brian Deer has "unearthed clear evidence of falsification".”

Edit: The BMJ article, and A BMJ editorial on the matter(xposted ( Read more... )