{"id":154,"date":"2011-11-06T08:19:11","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T13:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/?p=154"},"modified":"2011-11-06T08:19:11","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T13:19:11","slug":"terrific-boston-globe-op-ed-on-autism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/2011\/11\/06\/terrific-boston-globe-op-ed-on-autism\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrific Boston Globe op-ed on Autism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <strong><a title=\"&quot;The Truth About Autism&quot;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/opinion\/2011\/11\/05\/the-truth-about-autism\/jf8sU1RBjK8B8CTU0KktCO\/story.html?s_campaign=sm_tw\" target=\"_blank\">Globe features a column<\/a><\/strong> that is a wonderful explanation of the recent work of\u00a0Dr. Laurent Mottron at the University of Montreal (which, thankfully, has gotten a lot of press in recent days; e.g. see <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2011\/11\/111102161045.htm\" target=\"_blank\">this mention in Science Daily of November 2<\/a><\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>The Globe columnist, Gareth Cook, writes to tell us &#8220;The truth about autism&#8221; and he does so with kindness and a rare appreciation and understanding. This column is a breath of fresh air, and will be greatly appreciated by the neurodiversity movement.<\/p>\n<p>His conclusion is &#8220;There is, of course, a strong ethical case for change. But there is also another way of thinking about it, which Americans, in particular, should understand: Tapping unusual minds provides a competitive advantage to companies &#8211; and to nations. Recognize the hidden strengths of our people, and we will all be the richer for it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But read the entire article; I found it quite compelling!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Globe features a column that is a wonderful explanation of the recent work of\u00a0Dr. Laurent Mottron at the University of Montreal (which, thankfully, has gotten a lot of press in recent days; e.g. see this mention in Science Daily of November 2). The Globe columnist, Gareth Cook, writes to tell us &#8220;The truth about &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/2011\/11\/06\/terrific-boston-globe-op-ed-on-autism\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}