In case you missed it:
Autism News headlines for March 2018
• Woman filmed dragging son along pavement in Liverpool: 'He has autism and drops like a sack of spuds, that's the only way I can move him'
• Please Stop Complaining About Your Autistic Children
• Mom feared autistic son would be a burden. So she tried to saw his head off, Maryland cops say
• 'I am absolutely furious,' says mother trying to renew disability tax credit
• THE SUICIDE EPIDEMIC AMONG HIGH FUNCTIONING PERSONS WITH AUTISM
• 5 former CNAs accused of having sex with patients
• Kids With Autism Are Less Likely to Be Vaccinated by Alice Park
• "My heart goes out to kids with autism. But no one told me they’d be leaving the house," - Doug
• Attention deficit disorder, autism share cognitive problems
• Woman pushes autistic son out of 9-storey window
• Suspect arrested in connection to assault of man with autism
• When You’re Autistic, Abuse Is Considered Love
• Scarborough businesses find people with autism can be great employees
• Facebook is a boon for autistic adults, can boost happiness
• Student with autism allegedly sexually assaulted on Suffolk school bus
• Canada-wide warrant issued for suspect in assault of man with autism
• Black And Latino Children Are Often Overlooked When It Comes To Autism
• UPDATE: Police Release New Info on Suspects Wanted in Beating of Autistic Man in Mississauga
• Salinas Union High School District bus driver arrested for raping disabled children
• Fiction, like life, tells disabled people their lives have less value
• Support worker gets year in jail for breaking autistic student’s leg
• N.Y. school, 911 employees on leave after student with autism wanders, drowns
• Adolescents with autism need access to better sex education
• Investigators Seeking Public’s Assistance in a Vicious Assault
• Three wanted after ‘vicious assault’ on autistic male
• Autism Shares Brain Signature with Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder
• PATIENTS WITH HIV SIX TIMES AS LIKELY TO HAVE SCHIZOPHRENIA
• Im autistic. I just turned 36 — the average age when people like me die.
• Peer partners help students with autism join playground fun
• Symptoms of Autism Not Listed in Diagnostic Literature
• Study: Autistic kids more likely to be gender non-conforming
• Schoolgirl with autism 'restrained by teachers and left bruised' as mum vows to sue council after charges dropped
• Doug Ford confronted by student with Asperger’s, refuses to apologize for autism remarks
• Report: Students With Disabilities Disciplined Twice As Often As Peers
"Attention deficit disorder, autism share cognitive problems" - this would explain why Adderall helps me a good deal, and it actually pretty much gets rid of my sensitivity to bright light and loud sounds.
Damn, there are a lot of people beating up autistic men...I have a theory on that though, and it's that male aggression thing that would make men a lot more likely to take something as rude that was just factual or blunt or the like.
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