Random Thoughts

Don't get too excited but 200 activists are going to jump off Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. These aren't the usual pesky environmentalists, these are hang-gliding global activists, which really…

"These behaviors can be irritating for family members." --on stimming in autistic children My children stim. I stim--come on, for Pete's sake--every one of us--autistic or not-- STIMS. We all…

Between physicists - there's an Easter bunny! Last Friday I went to Oslo, you know, the capital of Norway and home of the Vikings, to meet experimental physicist Tommaso Dorigo. Tommaso, who writes A…

To take a statement with 'a grain of salt' or 'a pinch of salt' means to accept it but to maintain a degree of skepticism about its truth. --The Phrase Finder We use idioms with little thought. We…

As I had announced in my blog, I spent four days in Oslo before Easter, visiting museums with my kids and my fiancee, and enjoying the place -new to all of us. Oslo is a relatively un-interesting…

As almost every parent of an autistic child knows, there is no shortage of books out there on autism, but true gems are rare. Eileen Riley-Hall’s new book Parenting Girls on the Autism Spectrum…

Today I am leaving to Norway, for a visit of few days. If you happen to have suggestions for things to see and do there, please drop me a line in the comments thread below; I will be traveling with…

Autism Speaks wants us to go blue. I sit here in my 2011 WAAD tee, all in blue, from hair to shoes. I am blue. Blue to celebrate today. Celebrate seems a weird word, doesn't it--what are we…

The Autism Blogs Directory has approximately 1,000 blogs, websites, and forums representing autistic bloggers, family members, professionals, and other disability-related bloggers. It's…

I got a private message from Gerhard Adam which went "I'm getting used to being called a moron, etc. but why do they have to pick on the cowboy hat?" Why indeed?  Hats used to be cool but they…