“What is the scam? If you have a child who has a behavioral problem, or if your child is a slow learner,… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share Image
“If you are an autistic synesthete, you may be held in higher esteem by some than if you do not have it.… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share Image
“The DSM V (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth edition) effectively eliminates the need to ask the question “What is… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share Image
“Bolstering the idea that many names for autism have come and gone is the fact that in 2013 the DSM V eliminated… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share Image
“As in the matter of cures, treatments are usually argued against using patient's rights or civil rights as a defense. What makes… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share Image
“Yet the Bible also talks about diseases, both of the body and mind, and Jesus heals these diseased people. Ergo, while it… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, by this time it didn't matter. Self-diagnosed autistics and fakers were asking diagnosed autistics whether or not they had a diagnosis, and if… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share
“Be that as it may, some of those that would no longer be diagnosed “autistic” today were diagnosed on the autism spectrum and accepted… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share
“This hardly needs to be stated, but if a faith healer tries to “heal” an autistic person, the implied message is that the “healer”… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share
“Whom a person in the autism community is friends with is very important. Alliances are forged against people who have certain friends, and these… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share
“The person generally agreed upon by many to be the founder of Applied Behavior Analysis, Dr. O. Ivar Lovaas, described autistics as “Little Monsters”… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share
“It seems as though autism is being portrayed in literature less as a diagnosis, and more as a minority lifestyle. Sometimes it is even… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share
“Recently, Temple Grandin's mother, Eustacia Cutler, wrote and article that tried to explain why some autistic men seem to have a sexual preoccupation with… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share
“The problem with this theory is that ◦ Thimerosal is not mercury itself, but a mercury compound ◦ Thimerosal is not the… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share
“Hypersensitivities occur when sensitivities are strongly heightened, many times uncomfortably so. Hypo-sensitivities occur when there is a lesser reaction to a sensation than one… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share
“Because “cold” mothers exhibit traits (possibly as the result of genetic makeup) similar to those displayed by autistic children, it was at one time… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share
“An additional problem occurs when people may infer they have synesthesia when they really do not, or they may pretend to have it when… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share
“It has happened that a group of autistics, who were considered radical by many, attempted to petition the United Nations to recognize autistics as… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share
“To call oneself a journalist when one has no established qualifications is “bad”, but to tack the “autistic” qualifier onto title is worse in… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share
“The amount of bickering that most autistics engage in over politics is probably no greater than the bickering seen between people who do not… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share
“Assuming aliens do exist, the only problem with scientifically proving the genetic connection between autism and aliens is that no alien DNA has been… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share
