Time Magazine Tackles Autism
This week’s Time Magazine cover story is about Autism. Actually it’s the May 15, 2006 edition but it’s already online. If you’re not a subscriber you can still read the stories online, but first you’ll have to sit through a short advertisement before being able to read the full story. There’s a main cover story entitled Inside the Autistic Mind and two shorter pieces: A Tale of Two Schools and The Most Difficult Decision of My Life. The article barely mentions thimerosal, which I found a little odd since it’s at least the most controversial of the origin theories. But at least the mainstream media is acknowledging autism’s existence again, however briefly.
Newsweek did a story last year when the parent company owner’s grandchild was diagnosed with autism. Now this year Time is having a go at it. I’ll be interested to learn what Time’s reason was.
