I wrote something about weighted blankets and a Deep Pressure vest over at the Huffington Post. Check it out here. It coincidentally sits beneath their big story in the Living section, which is about a New York magazine article on autism activism.

Not unlike those in the Mad Pride movement (which the HuffPost also references), some activists who have autism/Asperger's Syndrome want to promote their identity as a strength. The activism became especially pointed after those horrible, horrible ads (pictured) put out by the Child Study Center at NYU, which apparently has a completely inept communications department. (As a former communications manager for a nonprofit organization, I sympathize with the need to get attention for a cause that people don't invest in. But, I mean, please.)

To read the original NY mag story, go here. To read the HuffPost story about the story, go here. To read the blog post about the post about the story about the article ... oh, forget it. I don't know what I'm saying anymore.