A New Toxic Avenger

When I was pregnant with my little son, I tried to do all the right things. I didn’t eat tuna or any high-mercury fish. When I painted a room in our new home, I went to great lengths and paid double for the paint that had no dangerous fumes. I didn’t clean the oven. Heck, [...]

Autism Yesterday

“Autism is reversible.” I remember in the early days of Josiah’s diagnosis coming across this statement on a Google internet search. It was such a different declaration than what so many books and websites said. I kept seeing things like, “Autism is a pervasive, life-long disorder with no known cure and no known cause.” What [...]

Autism? That’s Rainman, Right?

When my son was diagnosed with autism back in December, I was talking with a friend I hadn’t seen in a while. I told her that we’d been having a tough time because our son has autism. She blurted out, “Now what’s that again–that’s Rainman right?” With everything in me I wanted to defend my [...]

Vaccines, vaccines, and more vaccines–Part Two

There’s been a lot of talk about autism in the news lately, given the case of Hanna Poling and her family where the court conceded that vaccines may have brought on her autism. See the Time article: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1721109,00.html. Here’s a similar occurance over in the UK: http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/sundaysun/news/tm_headline=court-links-mmr-to-autism%26method=full%26objectid=20587416%26page=2%26siteid=50081-name_page.html But, the CDC is quick to say there’s no [...]

Vaccines, vaccines, and more vaccines

I find myself becoming a bit of conspiracy theorist these days. I was even recently bold enough to print out information about vaccines and give them to four of my co-workers who just have had or are set to have babies. I also called the White House and my congressman this week, as actress Jenny [...]