Almost everyone had something to say about Autism: The Musical which can still be seen on HBO’s website. I’m wondering when someone will make Autism: The Comedy—enough already about “the tragedy of autism”!

Drinking While Pregnant Linked to Autism
Dr Maggie Watts, vice chairman on alcohol for the Scottish Association of Alcohol and Drug Action Teams, suggests that moderate drinking during pregnancy could be “the hidden cause” of autism, attention deficity hyperactive disorder (ADHD), and other neurodevelopmental disorders in children.
Race, Diagnosis and Identity
It’s not only categories like “race” that are not simply “black-and-white,” but also notions like “normal” and “typical”: What does …read more

A mother writes about getting a call from the Centers for Disease Control about her daughter’s vaccinations. Her response leads to a pause at the other end of the line: What did she say……some strongly worded statement about a link between vaccines and autism?
What this mother—-who is writer Peggy Orenstein in the March 23rd New York Times magazine—-says to the CDC researcher is this:
“Caucasian and Asian”
It’s Orenstein’s daughter being biracial that stumps the CDC researcher. The title of Orenstein’s essay is Mixed Messenger; her essay is about Barack Obama who, while he has “increasingly positioned himself as a black man,” …read more