The publish date on this article describing this video is September 2017. I haven’t been able to bring myself to watch it until now, August 2019. It was a bad idea. I made it 45 seconds in, about 1...

Today is World Autism Awareness day. My Facebook profile picture is my 8yo son Dylan, showing you, and me, what he thinks of autism. I imagine it’s something along the lines of “I just want to do w...

I wrote this back in August 2012. It needed to sit a while to take the edge off. I couldn’t even read it to edit it. -Rick Recognizing it: I just watched the Seattle Children’s Hospital “Stronger” ...

We’re all afraid of things. Some real – heart attacks; some distant – terrorists; some vague – the lizard brain’s resistance to change; some too real and terrible to ever really be acknowledged. Th...

When discussing the recent presidential campaign with two professors I know, one asked me who was more “favorable” when it came to autism. He assumed that I would probably support the Democrats bec...

I will not claim to speak for any parents other than me, not even my ex-wife. There is little doubt that part of the quick rejection of vaccine causation for Dylan’s regressive ASD onset was my ex’...

Dylan was on CBS’s The Early Show last Thursday. Some additions: when he was in a home program, the total cost was $2k a week; now it’s $2k a month on top of what he gets at school. Dylan attends R...

We’re running a logo contest on crowdSPRING for a social network-based site serving the ASD (autistic spectrum disorder) community. Besides wanting to see a greater variety of designs from differen...

NYC Area — Our friend and fellow REED parent Shelly Milstein will be on the Nightly News with Chuck Scarborough on NYC Nonstop tonight, LIVE at 7 PM Eastern. Oh, and Suzanne Wright of Autism Speaks...