Action For Autism

Parents in The Netherlands who have tried to bring the subject of autism to the attention of the government receive either no, or a kind of general answer.
Even though the attention for autism is growing, it's still minimal.
In the UK government asks people to give their advice how to improve life for adult autists....

Whereas the American and English media spend a lot of attention on autism awarenss month, the attention in the Dutch media was short lived. At the end of the month the Mexican Flu completely pushed the whole subject aside.
Thanks to the enormous amount of tweets and blogposts, mainly in the english language, we got a lot of questions during autism awareness month....

He's angry.
Because he wants to learn to cook, and I welcome the idea of boys being able to make something for themselves, he helped me making dinner the past three days.
One day he got me a package of spinach from the freezer.

Now there's so much publicized about autism I meet many people who know it all.
Even the media embrace without criticism people who claim their son or daughter suffers from autism, and especially those who claim to have found a cure get a place in the centre, right in front of the camera of microphone....