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  • Autism a disorder, not contageous

    Tim Tepas|Updated Apr 14, 2014

    April is National Autism Awareness month, which raises the question – what is autism? First, understand the misconceptions about autism. People with autism do not have a disease, and they aren’t broken, so they don’t need to be fixed. There is no way to protect your child from it and no diet or vaccine that will prevent it. Kids can’t catch autism at a play date, and no racial, social or economic class is safe from autism. There is no medical test for autism, and there isn’t a “cure,” despite what a celebrity talking head...