Three baby goats at a North Carolina petting zoo tested positive for rabies, sparking a statewide effort to track down everyone who interacted with them.

Hello, and welcome back to The Autistic Writer. Over the years, there have been many theories and many diagnostic models that have claimed to explain or define autism. Many have been wrong, as in the refrigerator mother theory, for example. Some are works in progress. None has yet had the final word. But one theory that is currently gaining a lot of traction is the monotropism theory. But does it actually deserve the credit it is widely receiving as a theory of autism? My Story As an undiagnosed and unidentified autistic child in the early 1970s, I had a pretty awful time at school.

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Dr Judith Brown is Head of Autism Knowledge and Expertise at the National Autistic Society. In this blog, she shares the latest evidence and research about autism to challenge misinformation in the ne...

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