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2) Let me be me
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When the Westphal family learned that their six-year-old Kyle was on the Autism spectrum, they feared they might never develop a real connection to their child. Withdrawn and constantly wrapping himself in fabric and blankets, Kyle was retreating from the world around him. Determined to find a way to connect, his parents embarked on an intense and radical journey that involved compassionately joining Kyle in his unique behaviors. Twenty years later,...
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"When Rupert Isaacson's son, Rowan was diagnosed with Autism, he decided to learn everything he could about the condition. Prior to the family's journey to Mongolia, which is documented in Rupert's bestselling book and movie "The Horse Boy", he went to Fort Collins, Colorado to meet with Dr. Temple Grandin to try to understand how Autism feels from the inside. Temple Grandin, an adult autist herself is also one of the world's leading authorities on...
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From the 1950s through the early 1970s, the American medical establishment thought it had found the cause of autism: poor mothering. Doctors presumed that the bizarre behaviors of autistic children - rigid rituals, difficulty with speech, extreme self-isolation - stemmed from their mothers' emotional frigidity. We now know that autism is a brain disorder, not the result of poor parenting. But for a whole generation of women branded as cold "refrigerator...