Methane Oceans

I was reading Age of Autism and I noticed they linked to this HuffPo article. It’s a response to the Newsweek article that takes on Oprah. Admittedly, I have only read excerpts from Newsweek but that’s irrelevant in this case. See, something caught my eye in the HuffPo article (emphasis mine).

A number of prominent neurologists now believe it helps to look at the brain, especially to rule out seizure disorder, which can often produce autistic symptoms, and which is treatable. (That’s what McCarthy found, among other things, by the way, when she decided to trust her instincts instead of conventional wisdom.)

I noticed that they didn’t say autism, but autistic symptoms. This is rather telling to me when I had previously read this at Left Brain/Right Brain. To summarize what he says is that, according to some articles he’s read, it’s possible that Jenny McCarthy’s son never had autism. Keep in mind that this is not a diagnosis, but a hypothesis based on available information.  Still, it’s rather telling.