As Gary McKinnon is diagnosed with Aspergers, I expect his story has featured here before, but the latest development makes depressing reading. UK government polititians have no backbone :(  The extradition treaty appears to be a one-way street.

Gary has a particular interest in UFOs and has apparently searched (hacked?) various sites in the USA in ( Read more... )

(Again, not by me).

www.youtube.com/watch

The transcript:
I am hatred. I am visible to your children, but if I can help it, I am invisible to you until its too late. I know where you live, and guess what? I live there too. I hover around all of you. I know no color barrier, no religion, no morality, no currency. I speak your language fluently, and ( Read more... )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJc2MKLg9tI
(I would embed it... but.. er... don't know how to embed vids on livejournal.).

Any thoughts on it?
(This is sort of my first time doing a response to something like this... so I hope I didn't do a poor job of it, or something.).

 www.youtube.com/watch

(I had nothing to do with this, by the way).

Last night after reading the post about the new AS video I immediately posted about it on sf_drama .

On the third page of the post, a community member said after seeing the video, she wouldn't be attending their walk.

link

I know it's just one person, but seeing stuff like that (as well as the other disgusted responses on the post- some from those who know ( Read more... )

So today Autism Speaks revealed its latest PSA, titled "I Am Autism". Originally announced back in August, the press release at that time encouraged families to submit videos of autistic individuals for a PSA that would "shine a bright spotlight" on autism.

So what did the video end up being?

This monstrosity.Since the video isn't captioned, I'm ( Read more... )

My friend posted a link on Facebook to this website (Get High Now) that has sounds and visual exercises that are supposed to have a similar effect to drugs. I just started looking at it, and they have "Colored Noise" which are loops of staticky noise that you're supposed to listen to. I don't think I am becoming high, but I really really love this ( Read more... )

http://news.aol.com/health/article/autistic-teens-learn-social-skills-in/633311?icid=main|aimzones|dl5|link2|http%3A%2F% ( Read more... )

hi!

um, i need people to spam my survey on autism for the essay that is due tomorrow that i probably should have finish writing already but, uh, didn't.

if you would be so very kind as to follow the fake cut to my journal and take the survey (sign out and do so anonymously), that would be lovely!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYKbIM61fAM

- saw this on tv at a friend's house recently. it was pretty inspiring!

- it makes me want to learn how to surf!

- i have my qualms with some parts of it, definitely, but how much can you expect from ESPN?