Believe me, I DON'T know a lot about this. I merely know enough to know that there is a TON more information that SHOULD be out there, that is not. That's part of what the software I'm writing solves. It can be used for any of the PDD disorders, but is mostly geared towards Autistic, Asperger's, and Sensory Integration Dysfunction kids.

I can't go into too much more than that until it is done and ready for market.

I got into it because of my son and his friends, first. However, I also got into it, because I was disgusted with the lies of the NIH, who in a 6 MONTH study stated that thimerosal has absolutely NO relation to Autism; with the often conflicting information that is out there; with the studies done on 12 people that are cited as gold in the JAMA; with the way people were starting to blame the parents of these kids; with the inability of the vaunted medical community, who has supposedly been studying this stuff since the 1950's, to even come up with a CAUSE for Autism, let alone a cure. Do I sound bitter? upset? furious?

You bet I am!! I let these doctors EXPERIMENT on me from age 5 to age 10, because they were too dense to notice that Ritalin made me a zombie and figure out that my dosage needed to go down. That's 5 years of my childhood I'll never get back. I have watched my son go through 4 years of therapy and have to move overseas with my wife and other son (overseas being the Philippines) for two years. For the first three years it was 2X per week each for speech, occupational, and physical therapy. What kind of a childhood is that? I watched them give him tegritol, because they thought he was epileptic, only to make the seizures worse and almost kill him. I watched Autistic kids have to change therapists every 6 months because one of the best hospitals for kids in our state was unable to keep the therapists, because they wouldn't pay them or because some bureaucratic idiot decided the therapies were getting too expensive for their insurance company to authorize. AUTISTIC KIDS!! The ones who can't stand change of any kind. And then they wondered why there was never much progress with the kids. DUH!!!

Sorry for my rant, but there's a lot balled up inside after seeing and being a part of so much.

As for your comments, yes, I know exactly what you mean. I am completely self taught in programming and find myself constantly fighting boredom, as well as constantly processing things I read. I'll read something that interests me and be going over it for a week in my head, no matter what is going on around me (Ok, so I'm OCD too.). It drives my wife nuts. I feel like Walter Mitty sometimes.

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