Freeing the next generation from neurological harm
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Jason Arday said he couldn't speak until he was 11 and couldn't read until he was 18. Just twenty years later, he was a professor at Cambridge. This post argues that autism provided the perfect cloak for the lies.
France was supposed to be different. Instead, its autism rates are now rising sharply, mirroring patterns seen across the rest of the west. What happened, and what questions are researchers still reluctant to ask?
The founders of the National Autistic Society used a jigsaw puzzle piece to highlight their quest for answers to the mystery of autism. Today, that puzzle piece has been dismissed as outdated and offensive. It has fallen victim to a normalisation campaign. This article argues that the old autism puzzle piece reflected a determination to find answers that we still need today.
More than a century ago, doctors carefully documented the histories and symptoms of children who developed normally before suffering devastating developmental regression. Today, those histories have largely disappeared and are lost in the broader categorisation of autism. This post asks what we have lost by forgetting regression, why it matters and what can be done about it.
With 1 in 16 children diagnosed and hundreds of millions spent on poorly scrutinised assessments, are we witnessing better recognition or a system losing control? This post examines the data, the arguments, and the risks of a diagnostic process that may be making things worse.
Profound autism is being erased by definitional drift — and the consequences show up in medicine, services, and preventable deaths.
Are we turning every school into a special needs school? In his new book, Dave Clements argues that the surge in special educational needs, associated bureaucracy and 'neuro-mainstreaming' are reshaping classrooms — often without any evidence that it helps.
A growing number of children with severe autism need specialist education and full-time support—yet they are largely absent from public debate. The most vulnerable have become the least visible.
How birth, feeding and antibiotics have reshaped the infant microbiome — and damaged the health of the next generation
The number of children diagnosed with autism continues to rise along with the relentless denial. Even in Autism Awareness Month we are not able to face up to the truth.
