Teenager convinces airline bosses that he is an aviation tycoon | The Autism News

The police will not be taking action against the teenager, who is reported to suffer from a form of autism and to be able to recall the exact detail of every airline’s flight schedule.

Gotta love that. Never would have occurred to me to try to pull that off in a ( Read more... )

Challenging popular myths about autism | The Autism News
Myth #1: All autistic people are nonverbal and low functioning.
Myth #2: Autism is a mental illness.
Myth #3: Autistic people lack empathy.
Myth #4: Autistic people are antisocial.
Myth #5: Autistic people don’t make eye contact because they don’t care about what people have to say.
Myth #6: ( Read more... )

Originally published at Lemmingworks. You can comment here or there.

Challenging popular myths about autism | The Autism News
Myth #1: All autistic people are nonverbal and low functioning.
Myth #2: Autism is a mental illness.
Myth #3: Autistic people lack empathy.
Myth #4: Autistic people are antisocial.
Myth #5: Autistic people don’t make eye ( Read more... )

Autism Blog - Autism and aspergers are essentially the same « Left Brain/Right Brain. No! Really? Whodathunk.

Mirrored from Lemmingworks.

Originally published at Lemmingworks. You can comment here or there.

Autism Blog - Autism and aspergers are essentially the same « Left Brain/Right Brain. No! Really? Whodathunk.

Science-Based Medicine » Hostility Towards Scientists And Jenny McCarthy’s Latest Video

I’ve been fairly quiet about Jenny McCarthy’s campaign against childhood vaccinations, partly because Dr. David Gorski has covered the issue so thoroughly already, and partly because of my “do not engage” policy relating to the deeply irrational i.e. there’s no ( Read more... )

A neurotypical totalizing statement, but what the heck. It’s howard and goffman

I’m glad someone else said this. I’m tired of being told that I lack empathy…

HealthZone.ca - Mind & Mood - Asperger’s theory does about-face , Rather than ignoring others, researchers think spectrum sufferers care too much

A groundbreaking study suggests people with autism-spectrum disorders such as Asperger’s do not lack empathy - rather, they ( Read more... )

I found this on the Wrong Planet website: Missing Qld boy rides bike to Sydney

A 15-year-old Brisbane boy with Asperger’s syndrome who went missing for two weeks has been found in Sydney, after riding his bike more than 950km down the Pacific Highway….

He had as good a reason as any for the epic journey down the east coast on one of Australia’s ( Read more... )