SO frustrating to make the same points over and over, but since I’ve yet to read anything as disconnected from reality as Madeleine Ryan’s piece in the NYT, I had to respond:
How turning Asperger syndrome into #ASD intensified the war in the autism community. Here I speak to one of the psychiatrists behind the controversial move: https://t.co/KUj2U0dswh
The side of #autism rarely shown in the media. 😢
"I was in extreme, intense pain. I had to snap out of it immediately to get control of him in this pain and not realizing he had also cut my face open..I started getting sick to the point of vomiting..."
https://t.co/AOsO3pzX9i
A Celebrated Brit's Memoir Flings the Doors Wide Open on Life with Severe Autism—Dame Stephanie Shirley fled Nazi horror and pioneered a successful IT business, but her son’s #autism was her life’s greatest challenge https://t.co/1UZokMwmcT