Australia is crazy-conservative especially when it comes to...

Australia is crazy-conservative especially when it comes to health care. I have a child with autistic spectrum disorder and in australia the accepted therapies pushed by professionals is speech and ot. In us and europe the evidence has proven something called applied behavioural analysis therapy ABA is the most effective treatment particulary if started early. Here it's an alternative therapy, few professionals recommend or sometimes even mention it. We've done ALL the therapies and ABA his the only one that has made any difference, and it has been dramatic.

There is a point where conservative risk averse approaches are counterproductive. It's no surprise that we are last to embrace medical breakthroughs.

To the fellow who's father took his life, my deepest sympathy. Sometimes life seems so dark that rational thought leaves too. I was nearly at that point not long ago. Pain and suffering blinds us sometimes to the love in our lives and our loved ones.