Robert Kennedy (RFK Jr) has been a parasite on the autism community for decades. In that time he has failed to impress on scientific acumen and integrity. Recent news articles have shown Mr… Read More

NPR reports Trump campaign staff had altercation with official at Arlington National Cemetery. Apparently, members of Mr. Trump’s team chose to disrespect on of America’s most sa… Read More

I’ve been watching Robert Kennedy (RFK Jr.) for nearly 20 years now. Watching him closely. As I recently wrote: I’m an autism parent. No way I will vote for Robert Kennedy Jr.. H… Read More

Fred C. Trump III has an article in Time Magazine out: “My Uncle Donald Trump Told Me Disabled Americans Like My Son ‘Should Just Die’” The article is an excerpt from… Read More

Donald Trump was be very bad for America and very bad for the autism communities in specific and would be worse in a second term. Robert Kennedy would be very bad for America and very bad fo… Read More

I recently wrote about how Robert Kennedy Jr. is gutless (I’m an autism parent. No way I will vote for Robert Kennedy Jr.. He’s gutless).  Over the past few decades, Mr. Ken… Read More

It’s four years since Santa Clara County (SCC) ordered shelter-in-place to limit the spread of COVD-19. This was the first such order in the country when they did this on March 16, 202… Read More

As an example, I will discuss one particularly egregious “therapy” that was used on autistic children, the so-called “Lupron protocol”. Mr. Kennedy was in a perfect… Read More

There’s the ghost of a girl I’ll never beBefore I go, let go of the ghostJust let her disappearAnd then maybe you’ll see meWhile I’m still hereI’m still here… Read More

I happened to run across this study from last year: Maternal Influenza A(H1N1) Immunization During Pregnancy and Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder in Offspring : A Cohort Study and thought i… Read More

I am very fortunate that my state classified parents of high risk disabled kids (young adults, in my case) as “health care workers” and granted us access to the COVID-19 vaccine… Read More

California is opening access to COVID vaccines to more people. As part of this they have issued “Updated COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation Guidelines” which includes guidance on vaccin… Read More

California Department of Developmental Services (CDDS or California DDS) has deemed that “family members of certain people are “health care workers” and are “prioriti… Read More

15 years ago I went online to find out information about autism. Like many parents, I didn’t know much before my kid was diagnosed. And like many parents, I’m still learning.Wit… Read More

Xavier Becerra, the news is reporting that you will be nominated to be the new head of the Department of Health and Human Services. Congratulations. You will have a lot to do when you get… Read More

Let’s put this another way. Masks don’t work if you wear them “all the time” but not when you are in the most risky situations. Imagine sitting down to drinks with yo… Read More

Over the past four years many extremist and conspiracy theorist groups have been connecting and even forming alliances. The pandemic and the shelter in place orders have probably increased t… Read More

You took credit for it, but it is meaningless if it isn’t implemented. You are short changing people with disabilities. Mr. Trump, a year ago you signed the Autism Cares Act into law… Read More

Biden is a stutterer. He’s learned how to communicate clearly but that involves focus. There’s a great story in The Atlantic on this: John Hendrickson’s What Joe Biden Can… Read More

There’s a reason why Trump isn’t talking GDP growth these days. It’s because he failed by that measure. Four years ago Donald Trump was able to sell America that the econom… Read More

I still can not fathom how parents of disabled kids, of autistic kids, would support Trump. But this election, I’m not going to remain quiet. I have no illusions that my voice will mak… Read More

There is/was a blog called “autism investigated”. If you are unaware of it, consider yourself lucky. It is/was a cesspool. Take one of the worst of the anti-vaccine bloggers (s… Read More

When people claim that shelter in place orders didn’t save people, they are just wrong. When people say we didn’t “bend the curve”, they are just wrong. And this so… Read More

The U.S. has a committee called the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee. It’s mandated by law, a law that has been periodically renewed. Most recently as the Autism CARES Act of… Read More

In 2016 the anti vaccine community was very excited to have a candidate who lent them credibility. They always crave credibility and will latch on to anyone who does so. Think Robert Kenne… Read More

Del Bigtree was a mediocrity who found he could gather a following (and make money) by joining the anti-vaccine bandwagon. He was a minor producer for the daytime TV show “The Doctors… Read More

It looks like Genertion Rescue has shut it’s doors. If so, make no mistake, this is a very good thing for autistic people and the autism communities. Their website down. GenerationResc… Read More

Mel Baggs has passed on. Many may remember the name Amanda Baggs, same person. There is so much one could write about the impact that Mel had on the autism communities and the disability com… Read More

Let me put this more direct: Everyone is stressed right now. If you think you are at your own limits, find someone to take over. Call family. Call social services. Call someone. Please… Read More

Both houses of Congress are working furiously on bills to stimulate the economy following the COVID-19 slowdown. Which is a good thing. But, politicians are politicians and they can’t… Read More

We hear a lot about “flattening the curve” these days. Here’s what this means to me (click to enlarge): If hospitals are overwhelmed, my kid will not be high priority. M… Read More

I just finished writing my previous article a few minutes ago and I thought I’d check out my go-to site for bad information about health and autism:the age of autism blog. Here’s… Read More

Allow me to start with a litmus test, if you will. Many, perhaps most, of you who call yourselves “vaccine skeptics”, or “vaccine risk aware”, or “vaccine safe… Read More

One school and one school only uses electric shocks as a main part of their program. This is the Judge Rotenberg Center and the students are largely autistic. Up until now. The FDA has ba… Read More

Lydia X. Z. Brown has an opinion piece in the Washington Post which, in my humble opinion, is well worth reading: Autistic young people deserve serious respect and attention — not dism… Read More

I do believe sadly it’s going to take some diseases coming back to realize that we need to change and develop vaccines that are safe. If the vaccine companies are not listening to us… Read More

Shanon Des Rosa Roche, parent of an awesome young man and one of the people behind The Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism, has a piece in the Washington Post: How listening to autistic… Read More

There is a charity called “Children with Autism Deserve Education“. C.A.D.E or CADE for short. I ran across them a few years ago and saw some expenses in their tax forms that I f… Read More

The Autism CARES Act (Autism Collaboration, Accountability, Research, Education, and Support Act of 2019) has been introduced in the House of Representatives and the Senate. The existing Au… Read More

A few years back the Age of Autism converted from a business to a nonprofit. That means we get some information on their financial status. As a nonprofit, their tax forms become public. Nonp… Read More

When Donald Trump was running for president (has he ever stopped running for president and started governing?) the anti-vaccine community threw full support behind him. They were excited bec… Read More

The essay is structured as “you were pregnant. You had hopes and dreams. Then you got a shock–your kid wasn’t what you hoped for.” Why do we keep telling parents th… Read More

Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Joseph P. Kennedy II, Meave Kennedy McKean: thank you. We in the disability community owe much to the Kennedy family. We don’t forget the gains in special e… Read More

With less than a half-dozen full-time activists, annual budgets of six figures or less, and umpteen thousand courageous, undaunted, and selfless volunteer parents, our community, held togeth… Read More

When I first started looking online for autism information I was constantly hit with people using public data from California to try to convince me that vaccines cause autism. David Kirby wa… Read More

I accept that people are different. I accept that different doesn’t greater or less. Just different. I accept that all people need support in life. I accept that some people need more… Read More

Kim Rossi runs the blog “the Age of Autism”. She’s a parent of three autistic kids. In the past, AoA was managed by someone without any real connection to the autism comm… Read More

As the parent of an autistic child, let me start by saying “Thank You, Amazon, for removing books with harmful fake autism treatments from your offerings.” Seriously. One great… Read More

This is a big piece of what the “vaccines-cause-autism” idea is built on. Really bad analyses. Another study shows up showing that vaccines don’t cause autism. People im… Read More

What if I told you that there are a lot more autistics born in the 1980’s than 1 in 10,000. And this isn’t me saying “it’s almost certainly true”. This is fac… Read More