[dangerdoc]

About once a month, I see a teacher or a para injured by an autistic child. Usually bite wounds.

[dhs12345]

A woman that we knew killed her baby because she thought that it was autistic. Smothered it and when it didn't die the first time, smothered it more while it whimpered.

May she rot in Hell.

[Albion Wilde]

About once a month, I see a teacher or a para injured by an autistic child. Usually bite wounds.

Wow.

It's long; but this is one of the best articles about autism I have read in a long time. And altho it was written some years ago, it's still up at the top of google:

The Geek Syndrome Autism - and its milder cousin Asperger's syndrome - is surging among the children of Silicon Valley. Are math-and-tech genes to blame?

And for those really interested in autism, here's another from Wired magazine:

The Truth About Autism: Scientists Reconsider What They Think They Know