During the presidential campaign, I followed all of the presidential debates, the vice-presidential debate, and a lot of speeches by not only Obama and McCain but others who supported one candidate or the other. I couldn't help but notice just how much autism came up, always in a negative context. It even got more mention than gay marriage and ( Read more... )

Did McCain just say he wants to cure autism?!

So this guy, currently running for state senate here in NY, has made advocacy for people with autism and other disabilities and the fact that he is grandfather to two autistic children a major part of his campaign. I can't even vote for (or against) him because he's not in my district, but I have had a look at his platform and some disability ( Read more... )

With Tonight ending, it looks like we have two main options to select who will help feel to best represent us. Because of widespread news coverage, about the spread of autism Presidential politics.

It seems our options as a community are Obama or McCain. Who should we support and how should we support them?

I just wanted to point out an interesting that was in the article I just posted.

Studies repeatedly have discounted any link between thimerosal and autism, but legal challenges continue. The issue even cropped up in the presidential campaign, with Republican John McCain asserting on Friday that "there's strong evidence" autism is connected to the ( Read more... )

A quote from Republican senator and presidential hopeful John McCain:

“It’s indisputable that autism is on the rise among children,” Senator John McCain said while campaigning recently in Texas. “The question is, What’s causing it? And we go back and forth, and there’s strong evidence that indicates that it’s got to do with a preservative in ( Read more... )

The bad news first: Three days after emailing the ACLU, I received a reply saying, basically, "we can't read emails until six to eight weeks after receiving them. We can't help with emergencies, sorry ( Read more... )

"Noah ( Read more... )

So, although three representatives wrote back with auto-generated replies asking what town in Utah I'm from, those were the only replies I received until just now ( Read more... )

The petition is under the cut. Please feel free to edit, but if you do edit this please repost it to here before sending! As of now, this is a rough draft, but I'd like to open this up under Open Source principles in order to get the best possible draft. (edit, fixed formating problem, I can't ever get this right, can I?)

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