Tag: autism in children

From an early age, relatives and doctors alike had told me I was severely mentally ill. Naturally, I believed them.

If you don't realize that you are autistic, your intellectual, sensory, social, and emotional differences are a mystery, even to you.

New clinical case studies have found that many young children who spend too much screen time—on TV’s, video games, tablets and computers—have symptoms labeled as “autism.” When parents take away the screens for a few months the child’s symptoms disappear.

We first came under pressure to give our developmentally disabled and autistic daughter a psychiatric drug when she was in her mid-teens. She was attending a local school for autistic children but was unable to adapt to their program, and we were urged to consult a psychiatrist. What enabled us to resist the pressure to put our daughter on drugs?