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more about #aspergerssyndrome more comments → GuyBitchy: Do not take the vaccines. Just saying. more » pepelicious: I hate to see autism portrayed as it is on the cover of Time - A cherubic autistic child trapped in an elegant world of beauty, much like the beauty t... more » CherriSpryte: I prefer the "We hate your kids" of Gawker's heyday to this new "Problems that affect you and your kids" thing. more » search.scientist: I think that I'm the only parent of a child with Autism to comment so far so here it goes...... Autism is far from being understood in full. In the br... more » Seeräuber Jenny: The worry now: Are we all perhaps a bit autistic? The worry now: Are we all perhaps a bit depressed? The worry now: Are we all perhaps a bit OCD? The ... more » Seeräuber Jenny: It's a timely obsession. Just as polio captured the Cold War's feeling of paralysis.... Not really. Polio was a public health problem long before The... more » happymisanthrope: Wow way to nitpick on an analogy. I think Owen may be right about something. Many people today seem to be ill at ease with what used to be regular con... more » JohnQPublic: I have a theory that's unpopular but so be it. I think autism is linked to the rising age of parenting. We were not meant to breed at age 35 or 40. We... more » Carol Gardens: Uh, no. more » Hydroceph: The consensus seems to be that we're seeing more autism cases because we're more primed to look for its symptoms. In other words, we see autism everyw... more » sample032: If only I could turn this disease into a musical... more » SubarnaCaiti: I'd never given autism a second thought, until my oldest son was diagnosed. He's not midly autistic, but severely affected by the disorder. I can't ke... more » Cheap Shot: My cousin is autistic and trust me, it took alot of hard work by his parents to help make him handle himself among other people and if it weren't diag... more » billybobnyc: For goodness sake. People use the (: to make sure that the person on the other end of the message is clear that they are joking, or whatever, because ... more » Beautiful Stranger: I still think Jett had Kawasaki Syndrome which is caused by eating raw sushi while cleaning your carpetting. It is okay to eat raw sushi before or aft... more » -
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Autism, the Disease of the Internet Era
Every age, it seems, gives rise to its own medical hysteria rooted in our collective fears. Could the Internet's dehumanizing effect be driving us to fixate on autism?
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