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Patent US5304211A for Electroshock Backpack to Punish Autistic Patients

December 17, 2019December 17, 2019 Aspergers Autism News 4 Comments

It is scary that this is even a modern patent. The patent US5304211A filed by the Behavior Research Institute in

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Positive Traits of Autism
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Positive Traits of People on the Autism Spectrum

December 17, 2019December 17, 2019 Aspergers Autism News 0 Comments

There are many wonderful, positive traits which often come with being on the autism spectrum. Let us highlight just a

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Shock Therapy and Autism
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Autistic Patients Remotely Electrocuted as Punishment

December 16, 2019December 17, 2019 Aspergers Autism News 2 Comments

I’ve been writing about the horrific punishments used to “train” autistic patients in the 1950s and 1960s. I honestly thought

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Autistic Patient
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Facility with Intellectually Disabled Clients Performing Unauthorized Experiments

December 16, 2019December 16, 2019 Aspergers Autism News 0 Comments

Do some googling of the Glenwood Resource Center in Glenwood, Iowa. This state-run facility, overseen by the Iowa Department of

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Treat People With Kindness
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Treat People With Kindness

December 13, 2019December 13, 2019 Aspergers Autism News 0 Comments

It seems almost like a cliche statement. We should treat people with kindness. Who even thinks like that any more?

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Greta Thunberg Time Person of the Year – Milestone for Aspergers and Autism

December 12, 2019December 12, 2019 Aspergers Autism News 0 Comments

Back in 1927, Time Magazine decided that it should feature a “Man of the Year” each year. Scarily, it wasn’t

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Neurotypical vs Neurodiverse
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Neurotypical vs Neurodiverse Brain

December 9, 2019December 9, 2019 Aspergers Autism News 0 Comments

Terminology can get confusing when you’re talking about the brain. In the Autism Spectrum Disorders world, along with many other

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Autism Spectrum
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Is Autism a Spectrum? A Scale? A Sphere?

December 6, 2019December 6, 2019 Aspergers Autism News 0 Comments

The way we refer to things matter. When we name something, we define it and quantify it. We affect how

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Autism and Aspergers
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You’re Not Autistic? Are You?

December 6, 2019December 7, 2019 Aspergers Autism News 0 Comments

It’s bad enough that sometimes when you tell someone you’re on the autism spectrum that they say things like, “You

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Autism and Aspergers Perceptions
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… But You Don’t Look Autistic?

December 6, 2019December 6, 2019 Aspergers Autism News 0 Comments

Living on the autism spectrum has a variety of benefits and challenges. One challenge is dealing with a society which

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