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December 16, 2006

Please Share: What Do You Love Best About the Autistic Person in Your Life? http://autism.about.com/b/a/257684.htm My son Tom may not play soccer or have any real friends outside of his immediate family. Sure, these things matter (not so much the soccer as the friendships). But on the other hand... Tommy is the one who notices the red tailed hawk as it swoops over our house -- and he knows the difference between a hawk and a falcon. He's the kid who WANTS to go to the art museum and has memorized the route through 1001 galleries to the halls of Asian art and his favorite statues of Shiva and Ganesh. And he's the one who awes adults with his in-depth knowledge of bats and lizards. Everyone has challenges. And everyone has talents,

interests, or just plain amazing personal qualities. I thought it might be a nice idea to start putting together a collection of some of our autistic loved ones' greatest talents, traits, actions and ideas. With a little design work, it could become a wonderful gift -- to ourselves and our autistic loved ones. Just as importantly, it could be a great reminder of what ability really is -- for those folks out there who can't see how gifted our loved ones really are. So... what do you love best about the autistic person in your life? Please share your stories! Saturday December 2, 2006 | comments (58)"(Whatever situation we examine), the conclusion is in every case the same: that vaccination is a gigantic delusion;

that it has never saved a single life; but that it has been the cause of so much disease, so many deaths, such a vast amount of utterly needless and altogether undeserved suffering, that it will be classed by the coming generation among the greatest errors of an ignorant and prejudiced age, and its penal enforcement the foulest blot on the generally beneficent course of legislation during our century."-----Alfred Russel Wallace [book 1898] Vaccination A Delusion.