One of the things I’ve gotten really good at over the years is listening when a parent says, “He’s just been off lately.” That can mean a hundred different things. Maybe he’s suddenly more hyper and silly. Maybe an old stim is back. Maybe he’s waking up in the middle of the night again, melting d...

Can we talk about something that has been bothering me for a while? Somewhere along the way, heavy metals became almost passé in the biomedical world. Twenty years ago, parents were talking about toxic exposures, mercury, lead, aluminum, chelation—and why some of our kids seemed unable to handle ...

If you had spent any amount of time around him when he was four, you would have heard plenty of talking. He could quote Mario. He could sing the entire Thomas the Tank Engine theme song. And thanks to Kipper the Dog, he could tell you in a perfect little British accent, “By the way, that’s a toad...

If you knew Andy Cutler, you probably just laughed at that subject line. Andy could be blunt. Okay, sometimes he could be spectacularly blunt. If you came into one of his groups terrified because someone on the internet said something scientifically ridiculous was going to happen to you, there wa...

I’ve been thinking about something lately. When I first entered the biomedical autism world, we talked about heavy metals. A lot. We talked about mercury. Lead. Aluminum. Arsenic. Hair tests. Porphyrins. Glutathione. Chelators. Environmental exposures. We argued about how to test for metals and, ...