Entries from September 2007

September 23, 2007

Jenny McCarthy, People Magazine and Autism

I think the cat is out of the bag. Even people who don’t know a lot about autism are hearing the word “recovery” and wondering about mercury, vaccines and biomedical therapy. Today my husband brought home the latest People magazine with Jenny McCarthy and her son, Evan, on the cover. I hadn’t read but three [...]

September 19, 2007

The beginning of awareness..

For me, that officially started almost three years ago. My son’s pediatrician said he thought our son was PDD, or “somewhere on the autism spectrum, but I wouldn’t call it outright autism.” He sent us to a neurologist, where I went aloneĀ  — a lot of husbands aren’t on-board initially — where the neurologist did [...]