Category: aspergers

The Fluoride Deception (Interview With Christopher Bryson)http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7319752042352089988&pl=true
Learn about Edward Bernays, nephew of the very Sigmund Freud, and pioneer of a scientific technique for manipulating public opinion called - “engineering of consent“.  Sounds like something me and my family have already encountered from some doctors. And not exactly with our best intentions at heart either. More for their expediency and convenience, [...]

http://www.answers.com/topic/diagnostic-and-statistical-manual-of-mental-disorders 
The DSM has seen criticisms through the years. A Columbia University team headed by Robert Spitzer, an editor of the DSM, acknowledges a concern about the DSM in their annual report of 2001, “Problems with the current DSM-IV categorical (present vs. absent) approach to the classification of personality disorders have long been recognized by clinicians [...]

Philosophy is a walk on the slippery rocks
Religion is a light in the fog
I’m not aware of too many things
I know what I know, if you know what I meanWhat I am is what I am
Are you what you are or what?- Edie Brickell and New Bohemians
Have you heard of the book, and now the DVD, [...]

I’ve heard of Bill Gate’s rocking behavior before, but this is the first time I’ve seen it.
Hope you enjoy! And also learn a bit about a much misunderstood aspect of autism.

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Found on Autism Diva’s blog – just posting this quick for now before I have to dash out and run. God – I love what Amanda said !
http://autismdiva.blogspot.com/2007/02/more-amanda-baggs-on-cnn.html
… generally, what I tell parents is not to believe most of what they read, particularly the stuff that says we have no understanding, and no connection to [...]

WrongPlanet.net – my birthday is for everyone else. http://www.wrongplanet.net/article350.html
The person making the post, and many of the people commenting, are ranting about not being party animals. Hate to break the news to these guys, but I don’t think it’s exclusively an aspie problem. Wonder if they even are aspie, considering all the parties they’re being invited to that they don’t want to [...]