If I had only one message to get out in "Autism Awareness Month" it's this: Almost everything you can find to read about autism is wrong. Put another way: Autism - it's not like you think. Now that's very sad, because it means that there is a whole lot of bad information out there; and that means that autistic people are suffering b…[more]

I submitted this article to Wrongplanet.net after Alex Plank asked me to write something that might be helpful to parents of autistic kids. This version is slightly different than the one on Wrongplanet.net. ------------------------ I am a parent. I have Asperger's syndrome. I have two grown children, one of whom is on the auti…[more]

I graduated in 2006 from UC Davis (at the age of 46) with a degree in psychology, biopsychology emphasis. My special interest is autism spectrum disorders and the brain. I sit on a "task force" devoted to discussions of autism prevalence and epidemiology at the UC Davis MIND Institute. I am a blogger, or rather, I sort of am an …[more]

I was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome when I was .... uhm... 43 years old I think. I'm 48 now. One of the problems I deal with with my personal version of autism spectrum disorder is that I have a hard time remembering numerals and I have a hard time placing things in the stream of time. It's sort of the opposite of what most people think of as t…[more]