I'm really glad that some very smart people are writing articles explaining that autistic people aren't crazed killers who lack empathy.

I debated writing an article like that, but I couldn't do it. It was too personal and too emotional. How could any rational person believe that my son or his friends could ever be capable of that? Is there really that much ignorance and bigotry out there? Ugh. I just had to walk away from all that. 

Emily Willingham and Priscilla Gilman did a fabulous job informing people of the scientific facts without desolving to blubbering incoherence, which is what I would have done.