by rickcolosimo on January 16, 2019
We all know about the placebo effect, but we don’t really know how it works. It does seem, however, that there’s some mental element to the placebo effect, even to the point that recent studies show that if patients know they are getting a placebo (no double-blind there!), they still exhibit a placebo effect.
A question that occurred to me recently as an interesting angle: do children and adults with varying presentations of autism experience the placebo effect in the same way – meaning under the same circumstances and to the same degree – as folks with NT brains?
by rickcolosimo on July 17, 2017
What does creating employment for ASD adults look like?
This short film, Employing the Full Spectrum tells the story of a family in Florida that built a car wash business around their adult son with autism. Most of the employees, in fact, are on the spectrum. The young men working there talk about what it means to them, and the father running the operation comments on the favorable qualities of the employees and makes it clear that this isn’t a charity.
What business would you build for adults on the spectrum? I personally think about hydroponic or aeroponic or organic farms, where clean and safe living conditions, hard work, and self-sufficiency can help ensure sustainability that government programs cannot promise.