I've been seeing this advertisement a lot lately. Please let me know if you would recommend this site to anyone ( Read more... )

I don't know if anyone here was following this story, but Kathleen Seidel of neurodiversity.com was investigating his practice. For those who don't know, he was injecting autistic boys and at least a few men with Lupron, a drug used to chemically castrate sex offenders*. He diagnosed the boys with "precocious puberty" to justify the medication ( Read more... )

I know this is an unlikely trait. I mean, we're usually good at object detail, but I really do have very little issue with face-blindness but a horrible time with car blindness. That is, I cannot tell the makes of cars like some other autistic-aspergians I know. Everyone seems to know a make and model of car very easily compared to me. Maybe it ( Read more... )

This is the response, so far, I received from thinkgeek.com in regards to them having autism speaks as their monthly charity ( Read more... )

within a few feet of myself today for first time. I'm what you call a "Numanoid" from long before his comeback and way back to Tubeway Army and while I don't own all the albums, I've got a lot of his music....I mean, I felt something before he came out Aspergers too that he was playing my chord ( Read more... )

Found a site that might interest some of the people in this community. I haven't tried it, BUT...with all the social difficulties, figure i'd mention it. Basically, you see someone u want to talk to, but instead of engaging them in conversation you can give them a card with the website and a specific code and then they can look up your profile ( Read more... )

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/07/22/texas.autistic.children.killed/index.htmlRead more... )

Has anyone noticed this? That people seem to act/talk/etc. in ways repeated in movies and television. I don't mean grandiose conversation or necissarily only little things. Also that it seems like its not film and television depicting life, but people emulating what they see in them? That people, either conciously and/or unconciously, are creating ( Read more... )

I've been a fan of America's Next Top Model. Not because of Tyra (can't stand her phoney self) but because of the models and the way they're transformed. Anyway, after last weeks episode it seems very clear that red haired Nicole is Autistic and it seems likely the people at ANTM know too because they've made it plain with the way they've presented ( Read more... )

I was driving and I passed a truck with. I can't remember the name of the company. It was something about transporting school books. It had an Autism Speaks banner on its side and back. Does anyone know what company that'd be? It was in New Jersey.