I don't think I would want to live on an island with people of only one neurological configuration, no matter what it was. - Amanda Baggs

The other day I watched an interesting segment from Dr. Sanji Gupta on CNN about Amanda Baggs, a 26-year-old woman with low-functioning autism who has received a lot of attention lately as a result of some videos she posted on YouTube. Often these types of medical feature stories strike me as exploitative, but by the end of this story it became clear that Amanda is no medical oddity or against-all-odds success story; Amanda is a witty and intelligent woman with a message for all of us.  read more »