Support of Gary McKinnon

Gary McKinnon

Gary McKinnon faces the latest in a long series of court hearings on 25 and 26 May – three weeks after the UK general election.  Protest activity in different forms continues across the United Kingdom in support of Gary. Gary has Asperger’s syndrome – and he faces extradition to the US after admitting to hacking [...]

Aspergers diagnosis DSMV

DSM 5

Publication of the fifth edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V) is still three years away in May 2013 – but the proposed draft revisions were released for public comment on Friday.  It has hardly been a well-kept secret that the 600-or-so reviewers from around the globe would propose that Asperger’s syndrome be eliminated as [...]

Scott James wins over Manchester

Scott James is an inspiration.  At 22 years of age, he has barely left his home for the past seven years. His social isolation is due to Asperger’s Syndrome.  Scott’s passion during that time has been singing – and he is now a contestant on Britain’s talent show “The X Factor”. 

Gary McKinnon

Anyone with even a passing interest in Twitter would be aware of the massive groundswell of support there for Gary McKinnon.  In a rough count over the past few hours, twitter posts with the hashtag #freegary have averaged around one every 90 seconds.  And the Free Gary McKinnon Facebook group has 8,291 members.  That adds [...]

Movies depicting Asperger’s and Autism – good, bad & ugly.

There is mixed opinion regarding movies that depict conditions on the autistic sprectrum – and there is a spate of new releases coming up.  Here are some of them:

Update MyFriendQuest

Thank you to everyone who has enquired on where we are at with MyFriendQuest.  The last three months have been particularly busy – and launch of MyFriendQuest is now very close.  In the three months since the BrightMind LABS project’s success at the Global Social Venture Competition in San Francisco,