2013 was a challenging year for Conor and Dad health wise. I spent a week in acute care with some respiratory issues and Conor spent 2 weeks in hospital, including a six day stay in the ICU recovering from a life threatening adverse reaction to his seizure medication. Overall though
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Facing Autism in New Brunswick: We Must Face Reality: Autism Disorders Can Be Harmful, Even Deadly
After discovering an arm, torso and legs Thursday, police continue the search for human remains along a rocky shoreline in Queens, Friday, Jan. 17, 2014. The remains belong to 14-year-old Avonte Oquendo, officials confirmed Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow) Neurodiversity cult members, including some autism professionals, academics and neuroscience students like
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Report: Families Face Staggering Autism Care Costs
The image above is the cover page for the report of the University of Calgary School of Public Policy: The Value of Caregiver Time: Costs of Support and Care for Individuals Living with Autism Spectrum Disorder. The report deals with the harsh realities that many involved with government, the media
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Waterhouse & Gillberg: Why Autism Must be Taken Apart
The belief that there is a single defining autism spectrum disorder brain dysfunction must be relinquished. – Waterhouse and Gillberg, Why Autism Must Be Taken Apart I am not going to offer too much comment on the article by Lynn Waterhouse and Christopher Gillberg itself which, as the title indicates,
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: They Just Don’t Give A Damn: 2007 Adult Autism Care and Treatment In New Brunswick Was Abysmal – 2014 Nothing Has Changed, Still Abysmal
Following this comment is a re-posting of a comment I posted on this site 7 years ago in 2007 about the abysmal state of autism youth and adult residential care and treatment in New Brunswick, Canada. 7 years later and nothing has changed. Well, one thing has changed, a very
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: SFARI Continues Misrepresenting High Functioning Autism Only Research As "Autism" Research
The Simon Foundation Autism Research Initiative, SFARI, continues to represent studies involving only high functioning autistic participants to the public as “autism” studies. In the Children with autism have trouble recalling memories article posted January 3, 2014 SFARI reports as an “autism” study a study which excluded as participants the
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: My New Years Wish to New Brunswick Government, Media re Adult Autism Residential Care:
Happy New Years Wish: Adult Autism Residential Care in New Brunswick Dear Honourable Premier Alward, Honourable Ministers, Members of the Legislature, Party Leaders, Civil Servants and Media: I am respectfully writing this letter to deliver a New Year’s wish for my son and other autistic adults in New Brunswick who
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Autism Parents Are Not Unbreakable
The allegedly UNBREAKABLE blade of my window ice scraper snapped off under the strain of several days of heavy ice scraping in this December’s cold and snowy Canadian winter weather. In fairness to the manufacturers and distributors of the “Unbreakable” ice scraper blade I have used it well past
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Autism Reality Check: Wandering and Tragedy
Some promote the view that autism disorders are “gifts” if only society could understand, change its ways and accept the gifts. The autism as a gift view, is irrational nonsense. It thrives by simply ignoring the evidence of challenges presented by autism disorders including those like wandering or elopement which
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: For Conor Control Can Make A Difference: HERSHEY"S KISSES Christmas Bells, Autism and Sensory Challenges
Conor would always react negatively when he heard the Hershey’s Kisses Christmas bells commercial. The sound of the bells, even the sight of the bells, almost invariably agitated him. Recently I recorded a couple of Frosty the Snowman shows for Conor using our television DVR system. The Hershey’s Kisses Christmas
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Intellectual Dishonesty: Autism Disorders Misrepresentation Via High Functioning Autism Only Research
In the picture above SFARI presents news of two “autism” studies which purport to find that brains of persons with “autism” are overly connected as compared to those in control groups. In fact both studies intentionally and expressly excluded persons with autism and intellectual disability, approximately 50% of those with
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Dad Scores A Goal … With A Big Assist From Tim Hortons, Eh!
I felt like a bit of a superstar on the Conor page this morning. Yesterday we took Conor to see “Frozen” in the mall theater and we got a few things done but tried to avoid going out on the roads with some of the frantic Christmas driving going on.
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Emily Willingham Uses SFARI Pulpit To Misrepresent Severe Autism Disorder And Intellectual Disability
Emily Willingham argues that persons like my son, with severe autism disorder and intellectual disability, should remain invisible with the focus on those with “pure” autism and no intellectual disability SFARI has done Emily Willingham a favor, allowing her to use their site as a platform to further her efforts
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Ontario Children Waiting Too Long For Access To Autism Programs – Ontario Auditor General Report 2013
News ReleaseFor Immediate Release December 10, 2013 CHILDREN WAITING TOO LONG FOR ACCESS TO AUTISM PROGRAMS, AUDITOR GENERAL SAYS (TORONTO)
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Oh Oh!! Authors of Report Concluding Aluminum Vaccine Ajuvants Are Contributing To Increasing Incidence of Autism Disorders Better DUCK!
Authors of a report published in the Comprehensive Guide to Autism 2014, pp 1585-1609 better duck fast! The article abstract reviews the highly toxic nature of aluminum and conclude that research data suggest that vaccines containing aluminum adjuvants may be a contributing etiological factor in the increasing incidence of autism. Such an assertion
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Detached Children With Autism Theory Faces Serious Challenge
Emotional Reactions of children with Autism, Ms Heather Nuske Olga Tennsion Autism Research Centre, Latrobe University For years the autism professional community accepted the non evidence based speculation that autism disorders were caused by detached, cold mothers. The professions’ embrace of this fantasy caused serious harm to many families. The
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Gene-Environment Autism Disorder Research CHARGEs Ahead With New Air Pollution Study
The belief that autism is 100% genetics has always seemed to me to be nothing more than that … a belief … a non-evidence based … unscientific belief. But what do I know? I’m not a scientist, just a parent with a keen interest in autism disorders. I was privileged
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: THIS Is Autism, Conor’s Autism Reality, Self Injurious Behavior
Suzanne Wright’s recent honest and courageous statements in support of a National Autism Plan in the United States has attracted the wrath of Neurodiversity cult members and they will not relent. All the usual suspects have been voicing their irrational outrage Emily Willingham, Shannon des Roches Rosa, John Robison etc.
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: 2013: The Year Of Autism’s Grand Error, The DSM5 Autism Spectrum Disorder
Photo by Harold L Doherty Edward Ritvo-Susan Swedo Shootout at the IMFAR Corral, Sheraton, Toronto, May 18, 2012 The year 2013 will be remembered as the year the simplified DSM-5 Autism Spectrum Disorder definition was imposed on a very complex and diverse group of disorders and/or symptoms. Catherine Lord, Susan Swedo and other
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Autism Media Rarity: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Autism Series Includes Severe Autism And Family Impact
Julia Rendleman/Post-Gazette Jeffrey Maloney, 19, is comforted by his mother, Lisa, during a family outing at the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium. In a rarity in the mainstream media the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published an honest, informed article by Mark Roth and Julia Rendleman on the challenges faced by a family with two children on the autism
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