And while we are on the subject of medication you always need to look at risk versus benefit.

In the 50s and 60s, kids were taught how to shake hands. They were taught how to have manners. There needs to be a lot more of that kind of stuff because the autistic mind doesn't pick up social things and subtle cues.

Who do you think made the first stone spears? The Asperger guy. If you were to get rid of all the autism genetics, there would be no more Silicon Valley.

You have to use food motivation whereas a dog will do things for you just for social motivation, praise and petting. Also with any animal you want to stroke it. Don't pat it, stroke it. Most don't like patting.

The autistic brain tends to be a specialist brain, good at one thing, bad at something else.

Animals make us Human.

I am also a believer in an integrated treatment approach to autism.