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February 29, 2016 It seems every time I turn around, whether I’m watching TV, the news, or online, there is a commercial or TV show or blogger that is trying to convince me that suffering is beautiful and having a … Continue reading
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February 26, 2016 While doing research for an upcoming blog on the changing representation of “anti-vaxxers” in the media, I revisited some of last year’s media coverage of the recent measles outbreak at Disneyland. In the wake of that outbreak, … Continue reading
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February 22, 2016 As parents, we hope that people look at our children with kindness, understanding and admiration. Being stared at by strangers (and sometimes even by people you know) and judged for what they perceive as bad parenting is … Continue reading
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February 18, 2016 My son Dan was officially diagnosed with autism when he was three. Before that, life was so good. My husband and I lived in Manhattan. I was an attorney, and he was a law professor. We spent … Continue reading
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September 23, 2013 On this blog I’m known as Trinity, which is the name of the main character in one of the stories I’m writing, not my real name. As I type this, I am sitting next to five Thinking … Continue reading
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February 11, 2016 Last May at the AutismOne conference in Chicago, TMR met David Stephan. We’re pretty good judges of character, and David immediately struck us as a wonderful human being and a loving and caring father — which made … Continue reading
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February 9, 2016 Girl, dafuq? So you crack a joke about wanting to trade each of your troublesome teens for “triplets with autism.” Then you get all prickly when the joke bombs. At first, I think, Oh bless her heart. … Continue reading
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February 9, 2016 We’re off to a great start in 2016. We were in lots of planning meetings in January, following which we thought we’d recap on CDC’s parenting policies new and old going into the new year: Women – … Continue reading
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February 8, 2016 Gloria Steinem, 81-year-old feminist icon and co-founder of Ms. Magazine, appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher to discuss her new book and, during the course of the interview, stated that younger millenial women are more enthusiastic about … Continue reading
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February 3, 2016 Screaming, red-faced with panic in her eyes, like a wild animal caged and in fear of losing its life if it didn’t escape. This is what my daughter looked like as she tried to jump out of … Continue reading
