here’s a video interview from my appearance on KRNV TV in Nevada this November 2008. Read the rest of this entry »

  In a crumbling world economy, it won’t matter if you have 2000 online friends if you can’t leave your room, Read the rest of this entry »

  Of my nine published books, my fourth text book, The Jumbled Jigsaw, recently came out in Japanese under the title NO JIHEISHO NO YUTAKANA SEKAI with publishing house, Akashi Shoten.  I invited Yumi Yamaoka of Akashi Shoten to ask me some questions about the book for his Japanese readers: Read the rest of this entry »

  I was asked for a paragraph about my vision of the future of autism.  Here’s what I wrote: Read the rest of this entry »

  Each month I send out a challenge for people to send me a 1-2 word topic they’d like me to write a poem to and I must write all the poems in the challenge within 48 hours. People CAN’T send names (yes, everyone wants one named after their child but they can send other 1-2 word titles. Each sender only gets me writing one poem per poetry challenge and the more surreal the challenge, the better. Read the rest of this entry »

  So you feel sorry for the shopkeepers this Christmas if you don’t buy an A-Z of consumables.  But what you may not realise is Read the rest of this entry »

  Another day, another gimick.  We’re gripped by a global recession, people are losing their jobs and homes everywhere, Americans on or hoping for benefits and services are worried will they lose them when foreign countries foreclose on their bankrupt country already trillions in dept.  But in the email, those in the autism world are told there is hope for just $240 Read the rest of this entry »

I had a letter from a parent asking me about cure and where I stand.  Here’s my reply. Read the rest of this entry »

  When I was about 3, one of the names used for me was ‘spook’ because I often had this blank expression and ‘blind eyes’ which stared through things and I’d tend to aimlessly wander into rooms and hover on the peripheries. Read the rest of this entry »

My parents were underclass party people in the 60s and 70s, a criminal family with colorful friends: armed robbers, gun dealers, celebrities and entertainers and crooked cops. Bravado, power, endangerment, sadism, mockery, and at the very least laughing things off, came as standard. Read the rest of this entry »