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‘I don’t like to be touched’: Video shows 10-year-old autistic boy getting arrested at school
John Benjamin Haygood was slouched in a chair with his hand over his eyes, a video shows. A school resource officer at Okeechobee Achievement Academy in Florida stood over the 10-year-old boy as his mother asked: “Does he have the same rights as an adult?” Then, the officer reached for the young boy’s wrists. “I don’t want to be touched,” John Benjamin said, throwing his hands in the air. “I don’t like to be touched.”
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Off-duty security instructor pepper-sprayed autistic man for eating free cookies, charges say
He was the training director of one of St. Paul’s largest security companies — a man certified on when and how to use Mace. Which left police mystified as to why Timothy Knutsen would pepper spray an autistic man in the face for eating a cookie from a Cub Foods sampler tray. Knutsen, 53, of St. Paul, has been charged with two counts of fifth-degree assault and disorderly conduct for an incident in Roseville last month.
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He won an essay contest and a trip. But then he was disqualified — for being autistic, his family says
On paper, the Odd Fellows, a national fraternal organization, loved Niko Boskovic. The Portland, Oregon, teen’s essay on the history of Ukraine was thoughtful and well-written, his letters of recommendation praised him, and his interviews with local lodge members went well. Boskovic was the “clear winner” of the local Portland lodge’s essay contest, which meant he had earned a trip to visit the United Nations, according to The Oregonian.
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Learn how to succeed in IT without social skills
The tech industry is full of introverts and other people who'd rather talk to a computer than another human being. But even brilliant, cubicle-dwelling introverts do have to talk to humans once in a while. Herein: how to get out of your own head and how a boss can help drag you out.
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Why America Keeps Criminalizing Autistic Children
When non-white autistic students get in trouble, schools have a track record of escalating tensions and treating it as a criminal matter. Two recent cases in Orange County, Florida, help illustrate the problem.
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Boy with autism 'astonished' at appeal response
A boy with autism celebrated his 11th birthday with cards sent from all over the world after his mum made an appeal on social media. Lisa Jackson from Southsea, asked people to send a card to her son Ben because no-one came to a previous birthday party. Dedicated trolleys were set up at Portsmouth sorting office to handle the tens of thousands of cards
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Study finds parallels between unresponsive honey bees, autism in humans
Honey bees that consistently fail to respond to obvious social cues share something fundamental with autistic humans, researchers report in a new study. Genes most closely associated with autism spectrum disorders in humans are regulated differently in unresponsive honey bees than in their more responsive nest mates, the study found.
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UK's first nationwide 'quiet hour' for autistic shoppers to be held this October
The UK’s first “quiet hour” is to be launched across multiple retailers nationwide to create a more autism-friendly shopping experience. In a major boost to the National Autistic Society’s awareness campaign, shopping centre owner Intu has partnered with the charity to hold an autism-friendly hour across its 14 centres this October.
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DEEJ Trailer
A nonspeaking young man dreams of autistic civil rights. The documentary film DEEJ with its insider view of autism, challenges us all to live inclusion.
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A gene linked to autism influences how neurons connect and communicate with each other in the brain.
Rodents that lack the gene form too many connections between brain neurons and have difficulty learning.
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Social phobia linked to autism and schizophrenia
New Swinburne research shows that people who find social situations difficult tend to have similar brain responses to those with schizophrenia or autism. The research, published in Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, found the areas of the brain that show increased response when exposed to unexpected speech sounds or ‘phonemes’ are associated with the processing of social information and linked with spectrum conditions such as autism or schizophrenia.
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Autism therapy: Social behavior restored via brain stimulation
Scientists are examining the feasibility of treating autistic children with neuromodulation after a new study showed social impairments can be corrected by brain stimulation. The research from the O’Donnell Brain Institute provides the first evidence that a specific part of the cerebellum, a region near the brain stem that has long been thought to only have roles in coordinating movement, is critical for autistic behaviors.
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The Prevalence of Autism in the U.S. Appears Steady
New data suggest the rate hovers between two and three percent
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'France is 50 years behind': the 'state scandal' of French autism treatment
Like thousands of French children whose parents believe they have autism, Rachel’s six-year-old son had been placed by the state in a psychiatric hospital day unit. The team there, of the school of post-Freudian psychoanalysis, did not give a clear-cut diagnosis.
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Autism’s social deficits are reversed by an anti-cancer drug
Of all the challenges that come with a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), the social difficulties are among the most devastating. Currently, there is no treatment for this primary symptom of ASD. New research at the University at Buffalo reveals the first evidence that it may be possible to use a single compound to alleviate the behavioral symptoms by targeting sets of genes involved in the disease.
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Missing boy with autism presumed dead; father arrested for killing him: Authorities
Tennessee authorities have arrested a father for allegedly killing his 5-year-old son, who had autism and was non-verbal. The boy was reported missing earlier this week.
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When the Way You Love Things Is “Too Much”; or: Why I Went to Portmeirion
The author on her love for ‘The Prisoner,’ her pilgrimage to the town where it was filmed, and the pressure she felt as an autistic person to downplay the intensity of her interests. By Sarah Kurchak.
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Dogs cannot get ‘autism’, British Veterinary Association warns after ‘anti-vaxx’ movement spread to pets
Dogs cannot get ‘autism’, the British Veterinary Association has warned, after the ‘anti-vaccine’ movement spread to pets. 'Anti-vaxxers' believe that immunisations have harmful side effects and may be the cause of autism in children - beliefs widely debunked by the medical community. This theory is increasingly being applied to pets, particularly in the US, and there are fears it is spreading to the UK and could cause already low vaccination rates to fall.
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Dogs cannot get ‘autism’, British Veterinary Association warns after ‘anti-vaxx’ movement spread to pets
Dogs cannot get ‘autism’, the British Veterinary Association has warned, after the ‘anti-vaccine’ movement spread to pets.
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The CDC Says Autism Rates Are Rising in U.S. Children. No, It's Not Because of Vaccines.
A new CDC autism report finds that rates of autism are rising among U.S. children. Given the fraught history of the (consistently debunked) allegations that vaccines are tied to autism spectrum disorders, there may be an impulse in certain corners to bring up vaccinations as a potential root for this rise in diagnoses. The scientific consensus still resoundingly rejects that argument.
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