Updates: Blogger on autism hit with subpoena **
Posted by Sandy on 5th April 2008
**Updates at the end of this post.
Earlier this week I wrote a post about the possibility that parents were being disregarded by the medical and scientific community with regard to the alleged role of vaccines in the onset of autism. Now, we have a related story that New Hampshire blogger Kathleen Seidel has been served with a subpoena regarding her scrutiny of a particular law suit against the vaccine maker Bayer.
For those who do not know of Seidel, she has a weblog called “neurodiversity.com,” a view of autism that is very different from the norm. My understanding is that neurodiversity advocates would prefer that people stop discussing autism in negative terms. Instead, as the term neuro-diversity suggests, people with autism should be seen simply as thinking, perceiving and processing differently than average people — who are referred to as neuro-typicals. While I can agree with that description for individuals who are high functioning, it has not been my personal or professional experience.
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