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It's been such a huge distraction, likely diverting energy and funds from the research that could detect autism's true causes, and has led to many kids' needlessly coming down with a disease that should be entirely preventable.

Autism/vaccine link: Another nail in the coffin Jennifer LaRue Huget 2011

I wonder, though, if the idea that autism's "strange behavior" is otherworldly is actually so unique to autism.

The Fantasies of Asperger Fiction 2009

On the other hand, Dr. Collins may end up being more in agreement with these parents than other leading medical figures in the country, who still insist - despite mountains of evidence to the contrary - that the answers to autism's mysteries lie almost exclusively in the human genome.

David Kirby: NIH Director Francis Collins Blames Resignation Of Top Health Official From Autism Panel On "Tension And Lack Of Trust" 2009

But I do hope he will "step up" to convince scientists that the search for answers to autism's "mysteries" is to be conducted as much in our modern environment than in our DNA.

David Kirby: NIH Director Francis Collins Blames Resignation Of Top Health Official From Autism Panel On "Tension And Lack Of Trust" 2009

A child with autism's wild tantrums were driving his parents apart.

CNN Transcript Apr 25, 2009 2009

This agenda is not dissimilar from those advanced by women's rights, civil rights, physical-disability rights, and gay rights activists in years prior, and Ari Ne'eman's the closest thing autism's got to Rosa Parks.

William Stillman: Autism: The Last Human Rights Movement 2009

There, they will travel across the countryside on horseback to meet shamans in remote areas, in hopes that these spiritual healers can find a way to unleash Rowan from autism's hold.

Marshall Fine: Movie review: The Horse Boy 2009

Cowen spends a great deal of time dispelling autism's societal stigma, arguing that mainstream society is reaping benefits from mimicking autistic cognitive strengths.

Nobody Tell Tyler Cowen, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Ever since psychiatrist Leo Kanner identified a neurological condition he called autism in 1943, parents whose children have been diagnosed with the most severe form of the illness -- usually in the toddler stage, before age 3 -- have found themselves desperately searching for some way not to lose their children to autism's closed-off world.

Charlatans to the Rescue Linda Seebach 2008

With the number of autistic children growing, researchers are targeting new technologies to help detect the disorder at ever-younger ages in hopes of reversing some of autism's worst symptoms.

New Ways to Diagnose Autism Earlier 2008