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Autism Votes is encouraging everyone to phone Speaker Pelosi and their representatives in regards to insurance coverage for autism. Click here to read more.
I made the mistake of cramming all of my kids’ check-ups into one week. What a bad idea! So on a lighter note, a new study on children and healthcare…
Study: Most Children Strongly Opposed To Children’s Healthcare
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The Pentagon — A Voice of Reason on Vaccines and Autism?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/the-pentagon—a-voice-of_b_148490.html
If you haven’t seen this already, you should read it. Department of Defense is taking some interesting stances on autism and vaccines. Also – the occurence of autism in military families is 1 in 88. So is someone playing with the numbers at CDC (1 in 150) or is there really a higher rate among military families?
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Apparently if you want to sell a book, movie or radio show, you should pick on a group that can’t stand up to you. Once again, someone has decided to pick on kids with autism. This time around it is Denis Leary who apparently can’t sell books on his own so he decided to do it by writing off autism as…
“There is a huge boom in autism right now because inattentive mothers and competitive dads want an explanation for why their dumb-ass kids can’t compete academically, so they throw money into the happy laps of shrinks . . . to get back diagnoses that help explain away the deficiencies of their junior morons. I don’t give a [bleep] what these crackerjack whack jobs tell you – yer kid is NOT autistic. He’s just stupid. Or lazy. Or both.”
Leary’s delightful book is called Why We Suck: a Feel-Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid. I can’t believe this guy actually does charity work on behalf of fire fighters… Some hero he is.
From the LA Times: “In Vanity Fair, Leary mentions the autism chapter as his “favorite” and hopes that autism activist Jenny McCarthy will picket his book tour. “That would be really good for me,” Leary told VF interviewer George Wayne. “It will help sell more books.”
What a really classy guy. I occassionally watch Rescue Me… guess I won’t be doing that any longer.
- Claudine