How far we still have to go. I just read a press release from the United Nations on a ' World Autism Day Resolution '; Member States...

Here's a really good story for once. The new Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology (CCRCB) in Belfast is officially opened today....

My brother and his girlfriend got engaged last week, so we had them over for Sunday lunch to celebrate. We had a good day together, and 5 y...

We're just back from our traditional Tuesday swim. Thomas can now swim 5 or 6 strokes on the surface. I give him a few tips now and then...

Bloody hell. This is my latest comment ; Please be advised that this copyrighted document referred here to as "Melnychuk" that you...

'Read it.' 'Belfast.' 'Read it.' 'Wellington Mews.' 'Read it.' 'Texaco.' That's what I h...

We went to an indoor play centre yesterday early in the afternoon. The only other children there were aged 2 to 5, since most of the older c...

I had another look at the NAS Think differently site, and the section on ' insights into autism .' It's still dominated by stor...

I read a post yesterday on Gimpy's Blog , about a homeopath called John D. Melnychuk and his claim to have cured autism, and other nam...

The NAS is running a new campaign to highlight the need for support, understanding and accommodations to help autistic people and those car...

We've been making decorations for Halloween. I'm not quite sure what they all want to happen tomorrow in honour of the day. We won...

Duncan enjoys the PC game Dogz 4. He has adopted, named and changed the appearance of loads of virtual dogs. I have to 'cull' a few ...

So from one Noble , who may have been underestimated due to her model looks, but who has displayed depth of character and intelligence and l...

There was actually a pleasant autism story in some of the newspapers yesterday. Emma Noble, talks in the Daily Mail , about her autistic 7 y...

We went with my brother and his girlfriend to a Thai restaurant on Friday night and had a lovely meal and loads of crack too. On Saturday, w...

Last year we heard about what had been done to a little girl in the US. She was known as Ashley X, and she had been subjected to numerous ex...