One week to go. All the neighborhood kids are getting their last ya-yas out before they are put back on lockdown until the winter holidays. These last couple of days have seen nearly every neighborhood kid playing in one big, mostly happy, group....

Chris at A Free Man has written one of the few posts that you should definitely read!) about the causes behind autism that balances technical information with plain English. I usually have a hard time digesting scientific information - it makes my...

image from It's a Blog Eat Blog World Club - noun 1.a heavy stick Gus seems to have a fondness for clubs or otherwise large sticks. If he'd lived during Medieval times, he'd have been right at home with the quarter staff. But he is not Friar Tuck...

Sugar was a problem, so we cut out as much of it as we could. Milk was bad because it has casein, which has a sort of doping effect (reportedly) so we cut it out almost completely. But cutting out milk means that we have to give Gus calcium...

I can't recall a day in the past year, maybe longer, when I haven't read or heard about the word ‘vaccine' in relation to autism at least once a day. I tend not to dwell on the issue because both my kids have had their full complement of...