The local paper isn’t usually the place one expects riveting news but I was this week it was. Read the rest of this entry »

Our friend and wonderfully sharp, witty, blogger, Chris Borthwick, wrote an interesting entry about Phillip Ruddock’s foot-in-mouth episode regarding the illegal detention of David Hicks. Read the rest of this entry »

The room was noisy and a chicken coup. People mingled, glasses in hand, smiley, interested heads bobbing. My husband Chris and I hugged our chairs in a quiet, rather solitary space outside of the hub-bub. A waitress came around with canapes. It sounds like canned apes, but no, in fact its little hors d’oeuvres – kind of said, ‘horses doovers’ – consisting of mini pastry things with artistically stuffed contents, and pretty much all but one shaslik containing dairy and or gluten. No snackos for me then. Read the rest of this entry »

I have an art exhibition coming up in Melbourne

April 11th-May 2nd,
Gallery 15,
15 William St, Melbourne.

open Monday-Friday 9am-6pm.
info@peakevents.com.au

It’s a wonderful inner city gallery involved with a program called Art for a Cause in which artists can use their work to raise awareness or funds for a cause they support.

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Some people in the non-USA world view America as a whole as having money as its God.

If the president is the largest power in people’s lives next to God
and if they give him the power of life and death as they believe God has
then what do we make of the fact that George Bush got into power as a result of a record 100 million dollar election campaign, the most expensive in world history….. Read the rest of this entry »

I received a letter from a reader, convinced that autism was a state of torture, of being one of the living dead, unable to feel anything for anyone or anything in the external world. Read the rest of this entry »

I went for an updated eye test at the opticians today and had a most interesting discussion. Read the rest of this entry »

Reading an article on emotional incest I came across some interesting inter-generational dynamics. Emotional incest was more prevalent in parents with their own challenges and the impact on their children seemed to have some interesting implications for social-emotional interaction patterns in their children. Could parents of kids diagnosed with ASD be more at risk of emotional incest which in turn exacerbates issues commonly identified with adults with Asperger’s? Read the rest of this entry »

With the new government proposal to phase out incandescent light bulbs, what about those on the autism spectrum with the visual perceptual processing challenge of Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome who struggle to concentrate, read and learn under fluorescent lighting? Read the rest of this entry »

More and more books are now looking at Catatonic episodes in those on the autistic spectrum. Read the rest of this entry »