Asperger syndrome
A blog about Asperger’s syndrome / Asperger disorder.
5 May
Toxic aluminium link with autism and Alzheimer’s – latest research
Toxic aluminium link with autism and Alzheimer’s – latest research
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3 Mar
16 Feb
This Week in Health News: Printing Body Parts, Mental Health, and the ‘War’ over Junior Doctors’ Contracts
In the last few weeks, the NHS has been going through one of the most turbulent periods in its recent history. As you will probably have already seen, the struggles continued last week even as the crisis over junior doctors’ …
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9 Feb
This Week in Health News: Children’s Mental Health, and How Much do You Cost the NHS?
After weeks of debate and strikes, the NHS continues to dominate the news this week. For a start, junior doctors are due to strike again tomorrow (Wednesday 10th February), over the ongoing dispute about proposed changes to their contracts. A …
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8 Jun
Telling the medical wheat from the chaff
Ten days ago I had an exchange with Dr Janice Joneja which illustrated yet again the problems faced by conventional practitioners when dealing with little understood conditions such as autism. Dr Joneja had had an email from a dietitian who had …
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7 Feb
Sorry seems to be the hardest word
Playgroups are great places for mothers and their children. The mothers get to sit down for an hour or so, chat to other mothers, observe the toddler pecking order, and have a cup of tea and a biscuit. The kids …
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5 Dec
Goodbye, Asperger’s Syndrome
It might seem a little odd to say that I nearly jumped up and kissed the educational psychologist who diagnosed my son with Asperger’s Syndrome. But my relief at having a label – finally – was soon dissipated by the …
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29 Nov
Outside the box
Thinking outside the box is what my Asperger’s child does – all the time. It’s completely normal for him. What’s difficult is thinking inside the box, thinking like the rest of us ‘normal’ people do. As he gets older, he …
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15 Nov
My son has Asperger’s
I always thought parenthood would be like the images on Athena posters in the 1980’s (remember them?) – gorgeous men tenderly cradling perfect babies. But those babies didn’t have their own poo in their hairline or dribbles of carefully pureed …
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