I have been away from blogging to deal with some family matters, and I honestly don’t have much to add to the autism community at this time. One of the questions that I’ve received a few times during the month, “Will you review NeuroTribes?” Although I consider Steve Silberman‘s work…
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I was recently asked whatever happened to my planned update to Spectrum of Relationships. The simple answer: I have been distracted by more interesting (to me) things and didn’t really push to get the book updated. I’m not nearly as involved in autism advocacy in Pennsylvania as I was in…
At the start of every semester, I suffer from extreme anxiety. I dislike learning how new classes will function. I also have a general distaste for classes that seem to repeat the same basic themes and topics. As a graduate student in any given field, the primary figures in the…
We are in the process of moving, which is overwhelming for most people. In my case, it’s physically and emotionally debilitating this week. I am exhausted just thinking about all the productivity lost during the last year… and now I will lose at least another year. Worse, I know this…
Thursday I was fortunate enough to attend a Minnesota Public Radio forum on autism with Prof. Roy Richard Grinker, one of America’s leading anthropologists and the grandson of one of our greatest psychiatric minds. I won’t pitch Grinker’s book Unstrange Minds, beyond writing that anyone interested in autism and the…