Aspie Dad

I have a daily Google alert that fishes for “Asperger’s” and sends me an email. I was really surprised to read this:

She took him to the University of California Dental School for a checkup, and a dentist discovered he had little or no enamel on his teeth, a symptom of Asperger’s Syndrome that causes extreme pain. (full article) [emphasis added --ed.]

I had never heard of this association of tooth enamel and Asperger’s before. A wider Google net was cast, but I thought it was pretty inconclusive.

Does this association/correlation between thin tooth enamel and Asperger’s resonate with anyone? Perhaps I am just even more narrowly read on Asperger’s than I thought…

I just wonder about this because both my [late] Father and I have teeth with thin, fragile enamel. I don’t wish to speak for him, but I think he was probably on the spectrum too.

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We will be out of town for a bit so Aspie Mom can attend a scientific get together and all do some needed recreating. One thing we plan on doing is driving parts of the ‘Mother Road,’ Route 66. We should be back on the 2nd or 3rd of July.

It may well be that I will be able to update from the hotel, but I don’t want to count on it and we couldn’t get a straight answer. We’ve been disappointed before.

One thing I fail to understand is why a geeky conference in a fairly geeky town would book their accomodatiions in a hotel with non-existent (or expensive, like $10/day) net connectivity. All you have to advertise is ‘wireless included with the room’ and a substantial demographic will seek your lodgings out. At least, it seem that way to me.

But then, I’m autistic, so I am not a very good judge of what the vast majority of people might do.

Besides Father’s Day, this year 18 June is Autistic Pride Day. Aspies for Freedom sent this out earlier:

We would like to wish all our members a happy autistic pride day. If you are not taking part in an event please feel free to come to the AFF chatroom and join our online gathering.

http://www.aspiesforfreedom.org/apd.swf

Like Ballastexistenz, I really enjoyed reading Conuly’s observations and comments as well. Which is to say, I agree…

Conuly watched the Autism Speaks video, and posted a detailed reaction to it called In Which I Watch the Video. This is my very short post in which I say that I liked reading her reaction. [Ballastexistenz]

I’d linkback to both posts is I could…

Mike McCarron concludes his comment to a post on Autism Vox with:

When I see the lead in line “I don’t approve of murder; but…” I just have to buckle my seat belt because I know, here it comes. The advocate goes on to virtually admit it is OK, or understandable because Katie had autism. If these people are “advocates” for people with autism I can’t imagine what the “opponents” must be like.

Exactly.

Mr. McCarron was responding to a comment by Stephen Drake. Stephen’s comment is well worth reading too.