Autism: fear and maladaptive behaviors
What would happen if fear became your predominant mood? For many autistic individuals fear is an ever-present state of mind. Patients with autism live in fear that “nothing is what […]
What would happen if fear became your predominant mood? For many autistic individuals fear is an ever-present state of mind. Patients with autism live in fear that “nothing is what […]
I recently wrote an editorial about comorbidities in autism which was published in Frontiers in Psychiatry on November 2020. One of the reasons for writing the editorial was to honor […]
My first experience with a group of autistic individuals in a social setting came in the very early 1990’s. A group of friends had come together to discuss the possibility […]
I have written in previous blogs about an autistic personality. These are the combination of behaviors and emotional patterns that persist over time with some variations being accrued due to […]
Incidents in life disturb us to different degrees according to our personality. Some people may experience changes in daily routines by taking them in stride, while others may feel mortified. […]
Durante mucho tiempo he estado interesado en el uso de extractos de plantas de cannabis como una forma de tratamiento para las convulsiones, ansiedad y conductas inadaptadas observadas en los […]
Foster care is a temporary placement within the United States for children who cannot live with their families. In a policy article on Spectrum (https://www.spectrumnews.org/opinion/viewpoint/many-children-autism-end-foster-care/) it was reported that children […]
I finished reading The Autistic Buddha by Thomas Clements. It is a short book (204 pages) published by Your Stories Matter in England. The paperback edition can be bought from […]
‘‘Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when […]
Modern medicine is an atavism. Our way of thinking hasn’t changed much since the ancient Greeks, only the ways of implementing cures have made any progress. Several centuries before Christ […]
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