If past is prologue very little awareness of the harsher realities of autism symptoms will be generated on this WAAD, April 2, 2013. Next year, in 2014, and for years thereafter, the streamlined DSM5 autism will also eliminate many on the very high functioning and low functioning ends of the
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Facing Autism Symptoms in New Brunswick: Canada’s World Autism Awareness Day Act: Great Preamble, Zero Action
On November 1, 2012 Canada passed An Act respecting World Autism Awareness Day an Act with a great preamble which provides for absolutely no action to ensure that effective evidence based early intervention for autism would be provided to all Canadian families affected by autism spectrum disorders. Talk, and rhetoric,
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Horrific Abuse of California Man With Severe Autism
CBSLA photo as Shown on the NY Daily News Shows Horrifying Abuse of Man with Severe Autism KCBS-TV Los Angeles “Mom Sickened” and the New York Daily News “Tantamount to Torture” report a story of horrific, torturous abuse by professional caregivers of a 31 year old autistic man with the reported
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: World Autism Awareness Day 2013 Should Include Some Autism Reality
April 2, 2013 will feature another World Autism Awareness Day around the world. Many blue lights will shine, politicians will pose and take credit for helping advance the cause of autistic persons and their families, countless media reports will talk about the gifts of autism and television series and movies
Continue readingFacing Autism Symptoms in New Brunswick: No Meaningful Inclusion, No Community Living for NB Youth and Adults With Severe Autism Challenges
Resigchouche Regional Hospital Centre As an Autism Society New Brunswick representative I attended a meeting held at the Restigouche Regional Hospital Centre a few years ago to
Continue readingFacing Autism Symptoms in New Brunswick: The Harsh Reality End of the Autism Spectrum
If you believe IACC Neurodiversity advocates present and past, Ari Ne’eman and Matthew Carey, autism is not something that should be cured. You won’t see much about the harsher aspects of life with autism disorders if you read their writings. In their view autism is nothing more than a
Continue readingFacing Autism Disorders in New Brunswick: Autism Awareness Day April 1, 2020
Autism Specifics Press Release, April 1, 2020: Autism Specifics President “Aristotle” Newman and ASAN President Dr. Jerry Dobson will be jointly reflecting today on important events in the autism world during the past year. 1. First anniversary of DSM5.13 This year marked the first year since the DSM5 that a
Continue readingFacing Autism Disorders in New Brunswick: Autism Is An Epidemic: Time To Stop Pretending Otherwise
Autism Speaks, commenting on and citing an article from the Boston Globe, reports that American Academy of Pediatrics President Elect James Perrin, M.D., F.A.A.P., has called autism an epidemic:
“James Perrin, M.D., F.A.A.P., president…
Continue readingFacing Autism Disorders in New Brunswick: Australian Familiy’s Harsh Autism Reality
The mainstream media, the blogosphere and Twitter are full of dreamy commentaries telling the world that autism is not really a disorder, it is a beautiful culture, a different way of thinking that is helping make the world a better place. Meanwhile parents of severely autistic children around the world
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Invisible Real Autistics Suffer While Self Promoters Peddle False View of Autism Disorder As An Alternative, Superior Way of Thinking
Some self promoting, self proclaimed “geeks” are pushing a distorted view of autism disorders as being the domain of different, even superior, thinkers. Historical geniuses long dead are often cited as examples of “suspected” autistic thinkers. Of course, the self promoting ideologues do not go so far as to embrace
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: AOL Huffington Post Blogger Zurcher Promotes Autism Disorder Denial
I love and accept my son unconditionally. I do not embrace the autism disorder that restricts his life. I will speak honestly about autism disorders. Ariane Zurcher is a jeweler, author and mother of a child with autism. Zurcher though is tired of people talking about autism as though it were a
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Conor’s Autism Reality: From Joy To Self Injurious Behavior In A Flash
I have never accepted, and have in fact been openly contemptuous of, the view that autism is a joy, an alternative, even superior way of thinking. My son’s autistic disorder diagnosis accurately describes autism as it really is … a disorder, one that impairs the lives of those, like
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Joy of Conor 2011
Just a tiny bit of the joy that Conor brought to his Mom and Dad every day in 2011.
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: FOX News Autism Experts Worry About DSM5 Impact on High Functioning Autistic Children, No Concern for Low Functioning Autistic Children
FOX News has published a report, Some Experts Worried Over Revised Autism Guidelines, in which two autism experts, Dr. Keith Ablow, a psychiatrist and Fox News contributor, and Dr. Thomas Frazier, who treats children with autism at the Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital, express their concerns about the possible impact of
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Autism Fluffy and Lite With Amy Harmon and The New York Times
Amy Harmon and the New York Times like their autism fluffy and lite, none of that yucky severe autistic disorder stuff You wouldn’t know it from reading NY Times columnist Amy Harmon, or from reading the NYT generally, but 70% of persons with Autistic Disorder suffer from intellectual disability. Approximately
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Autism Reality NB’s 2011 Christmas Wish for Autism’s Vast Majority
Conor Doherty, one of Autism’s Vast Majority of Invisible Autistics, brings joy to Mom and Dad in the Christmas season and throughout the Year. My 2011 Christmas wish is that Autism’s vast majority, the 70-80% with autistic disorder and intellectual disabilities, will lose their status as autism’s invisible autistics. It
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Real World Autism Functioning Levels and Conor’s Hospital Adventure
Dr.Everett Chalmers Hospital, Fredericton, New Brunswick One of the many controversies that mark discussions of autism disorders is the question of functioning levels. Some high functioning persons with autism and Aspergers object to the notions of low and high functioning autism. Those who claim that a reference to low functioning
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Autism Fiction Award 2011
Please visit the top space on the sidebar and vote for your favorite work(s) of autism fiction in the Autism Fiction Award 2011 poll. The nominees, as objectively selected by AutismRealityNB, are: a. LA Times Autism Series, Alan Zaremba b. Nature Journal Changing Perceptions: Power of Autism, Laurent Mottron c.
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Autism Parents: Take the Time, Make the Time
The photos that follow show my walk from my home to my office in beautiful Fredericton, New Brunswick a place I am happy to call home, a place that allows me to take the time I need and want for me and my children. The weather this morning was beautiful and
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: We Don’t Need Anymore Autism Ideological Extremism
In Colorado the prosecution has announced that it will not pursue charges against a woman who killed her child because she feared that her child was autistic. Unfortunately some in the ever controversial world of “autism awareness”, including Shannon Des Roches Rosa aka Squid Rosenberg of the ironically named Thinking
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