3-minute read If you think a TSA checkpoint is stressful, imagine how anxiety-producing it can be for a child with autism. With spring break season upon us, it’s a problem facing many families in New Jersey, the state with the highest rate of autism in the country. The Nutley-based Phoenix Center, a school for kids …
It can be hard to find “your people” when you’re autistic. For us spectrum jockeys—avoidant, overwhelmed, and overstimulated as we are—community can be as slippery as the spectrum itself: something you surf along until you’ve slid straight through whatever you thought the end point was, before arriving back where you’ve always been, alone with your …
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently appeared on Bill Maher’s Club Random podcast, following his appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast. However, both Rogan and Maher failed to challenge Kennedy on his unsupported claims about vaccines. During the podcast, Kennedy stated that there are “over 100 studies” supporting the claim that vaccines cause autism, which …