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April 2, 2012
Should You Worry About New York's Rising Autism Rate?
Today is World Autism Awareness Day, which happens to come shortly the Centers for Disease Control announced that 1/88 children nationwide has an autism spectrum disorder -- a 23 percent increase since the last report was released in 2009. Long term, this represents a 78 percent increase from data g ... More >>
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January 13, 2012
No Gays In The Dolly Parton/Latifah Film!
In the script, that is. Let me first say that Joyful Noise -- with rival chantoozies Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton warring over how to run their small-town choir -- is corny and formulaic, but a kind of fun guilty pleasure for January.
Blogs
September 6, 2011
Unfunny Tea Party Comedian Writes For Andrew Breitbart's Sites
We could only make it about a minute into this thing, but perhaps you'll have better luck? The Tea Party apparently has comedians now, including this guy Eric Golub. Sample quote: "The left should love Sarah Palin. She has a beautiful, adorable special needs child... For that reason alone, the lef ... More >>
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April 29, 2011
Surprise! 1 in 4 Diagnosed Adults Fake ADHD
Throughout college, everyone these days knows a handful of young adults who have told their doctors they feel a bit impatient or restless (the "impatience" in this scenario being a laziness and the "restlessness" being code for, "Hey, let me push this during finals week so I can make an easy ... More >>
Film
March 30, 2011
Wretches & Jabberers: An Info Packet on Autism
Throughout college, everyone these days knows a handful of young adults who have told their doctors they feel a bit impatient or restless (the "impatience" in this scenario being a laziness and the "restlessness" being code for, "Hey, let me push this during finals week so I can make an easy ... More >>
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March 2, 2011
The iPad 2 Will Change The Way You Spend $500
Will It Have Number Munchers?Steve Jobs surprised the crowd and received a standing ovation at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco today. It was thought Apple COO Tim Cook would fill in for the reportedly ailing Jobs, but the Turtlenecked One was there to announce the release ... More >>
Voice Choices
December 29, 2010
The English Beat
Will It Have Number Munchers?Steve Jobs surprised the crowd and received a standing ovation at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco today. It was thought Apple COO Tim Cook would fill in for the reportedly ailing Jobs, but the Turtlenecked One was there to announce the release ... More >>
Film
November 17, 2010
Me, Too: Living With Down Syndrome, Romantic Foibles and All
Will It Have Number Munchers?Steve Jobs surprised the crowd and received a standing ovation at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco today. It was thought Apple COO Tim Cook would fill in for the reportedly ailing Jobs, but the Turtlenecked One was there to announce the release ... More >>
Blogs
September 17, 2010
Whooping Cough, There It Is: 2010's Big Epidemic.
While "Whooping Cough" sounds like something you catch on The Oregon Trail right before your oxen die of dysentery from trying to cross the river, it's actually a deadly cold that's currently killing babies in California right now at a rate not seen since 1955. Why's this happening, and how d ... More >>
Voice Choices
August 25, 2010
The Do
While "Whooping Cough" sounds like something you catch on The Oregon Trail right before your oxen die of dysentery from trying to cross the river, it's actually a deadly cold that's currently killing babies in California right now at a rate not seen since 1955. Why's this happening, and how d ... More >>
Voice Choices
May 18, 2010
HOW BIZARRE
Crispin Glover trips us out
Voice Choices
March 24, 2010
BETWEEN THE LINES
A legendary cartoonist draws his own story
Blogs
February 19, 2010
Andrea Fay Friedman, Family Guy Down Syndrome Actress, Says Sarah Palin Carries Trig "Like a Loaf of French Bread"
An actress with Down Syndrome who did the voiceover for a cartoon character that spurred Sarah Palin's latest accusation of unfairness toward herself and her family has chided the former Governor of Alaska for her humorless response. Andrea Fay Friedman, 39, a veteran actress with Down Syndr ... More >>
Voice Choices
December 29, 2009
The Disco Biscuits
An actress with Down Syndrome who did the voiceover for a cartoon character that spurred Sarah Palin's latest accusation of unfairness toward herself and her family has chided the former Governor of Alaska for her humorless response. Andrea Fay Friedman, 39, a veteran actress with Down Syndr ... More >>
Blogs
December 5, 2009
Brooklyn mother of four tries to get rid of her husband's other baby
Keisha Jones of Brooklyn got hold of a prescription pad and found a pharmacy which doesn't focus too hard on discussing possible complications to dispense an ulcer medicine which can cause abortion, uterine rupture or birth defects to the woman carrying her husband's child.
Blogs
November 24, 2009
Kid Rides Subways for 11 Days; Asperger's Blamed
Forget the 9-year-old whose Mom lets him ride the subway alone: On October 15, 13-year-old Francisco Hernandez, Jr. left a classroom where he'd gotten into trouble and hung out in the subways for 11 days. It sounds like a more extreme version of a familiar runaway story, but the Times explai ... More >>
Voice Choices
October 20, 2009
URBAN LEGEND
Staten Island sure is scary
Blogs
August 3, 2009
Bar Drunk Calls Me Autistic!
Remember my blog about ditching that control freak who tried to micromanage where we should go, what I should say, and how he could put me down? Well, a few months ago, I updated that with a post about how we'd had a nice reconciliation and became friends again, but now that's all evaporated like th ... More >>
Voice Choices
June 17, 2009
Christina Courtin
Remember my blog about ditching that control freak who tried to micromanage where we should go, what I should say, and how he could put me down? Well, a few months ago, I updated that with a post about how we'd had a nice reconciliation and became friends again, but now that's all evaporated like th ... More >>
Blogs
June 10, 2009
Times Reveals Ambition, Dyslexia of Ari Emanuel, Brother of Rahm and Charlie Rose
The Times' front page story on actual liberal Hollywood elite Ari Emanuel -- super agent to the stars, brother to Rahm (and black sheep/bioethicist Ezekiel), and nothing to do with Obama we swear middle America -- is laudable for its omission of the words "Entourage," "Jeremy," and "Piven." Too bad ... More >>
Voice Choices
March 11, 2009
Ladyhawke
The Times' front page story on actual liberal Hollywood elite Ari Emanuel -- super agent to the stars, brother to Rahm (and black sheep/bioethicist Ezekiel), and nothing to do with Obama we swear middle America -- is laudable for its omission of the words "Entourage," "Jeremy," and "Piven." Too bad ... More >>
Voice Choices
February 11, 2009
WILD CHILD
Elizabeth Swados and Erin Courtney musicalize the story of Kaspar Hauser
Voice Choices
January 28, 2009
STAYING FOCUSED
Cynthia Nixon has your ADD prescription
Film
January 7, 2009
Yonkers Joe Tries to Save His Son and His Two-Bit Role
Cynthia Nixon has your ADD prescription
Film
December 3, 2008
Elissa Down's The Black Balloon
This auspicious Oz import is a sign of bright, young filmmaking in Australia
Blogs
November 19, 2008
What People's Sex-Ad Descriptions Really Mean
This auspicious Oz import is a sign of bright, young filmmaking in Australia
Blogs
October 31, 2008
Activists Accept Denis Leary's Autism Apology, Publish Offensive Material
This auspicious Oz import is a sign of bright, young filmmaking in Australia
Voice Choices
October 22, 2008
Dog of the Month: Cecily Brown
This auspicious Oz import is a sign of bright, young filmmaking in Australia
Blogs
October 13, 2008
Is Sarah Palin a Fashion Icon?
This auspicious Oz import is a sign of bright, young filmmaking in Australia
News
April 22, 2008
Meet the Harlem Artist With Good Promotion, Sales— and Down Syndrome
This auspicious Oz import is a sign of bright, young filmmaking in Australia
News
May 15, 2007
Shocking Behavior
Parents lobby lawmakers to have their kids zapped
Film
April 17, 2007
'Snow Cake'
Parents lobby lawmakers to have their kids zapped
Film
March 27, 2007
'Ping Pong'
Parents lobby lawmakers to have their kids zapped
Film
March 6, 2007
'My Brother'
Parents lobby lawmakers to have their kids zapped
NYC Life
February 6, 2007
Something in the Way He Moves
Larry Seiler has cerebral palsy. But he doesn’t want your pity—he wants your love.
Theater
June 13, 2006
Prognosis: Negative
Troubled teen, caretakers stuck in development hell
News
May 30, 2006
Test Pattern
City wants fewer entry points to its program for developmentally disabled children
Theater
January 17, 2006
Head Cases
An autism opera, an aphasia comedy, a Tourette's musical
Books
January 25, 2005
Range Life
How the autistic brain explains the interior life of animals
Books
December 21, 2004
Abridge This!
Audioshave: What sort of book could be cut in half without losing a certain something?
News
December 2, 2003
Neil Finally Makes It
Dubya's Struggling Brother Is Back in Court
Books
July 22, 2003
Auto Focus
Strange Ways, Here We Come
News
February 16, 1999
Tough Love
Strange Ways, Here We Come

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