One of my favorite MLK lines. Bravo!

Excellent article fully laying out a lot of details. I'm not much of a soda person, don't own the product and never would. However, as a progressive, and I thought I was pretty well informed, I didn't know the story behind this company, although I have seen it's placement in Target. I suspect I'm like a lot of…

I'm not sure how much they make, but Tony Fadell said they were profitable and sold tens of thousands of its smoke detectors in its first nine days. It wouldn't matter how many countries you are sold in if you don't make money. I imagine with Nest being sold in Home Depots and Lowes stores that they became …

Nest probably makes money, Moto doesn't.

When its a matter of life and death of a child, broader questions don't really matter to a parent. Those broader questions are a luxury us parents would rather not pay for with our child's life.

Some people have more money than time or interest. For them, it's best to purchase.

The elderly with Alzhiemers are already covered by federal programs for these devices. The devices themselves aren't mandatory. Parents can decide if their child needs it. If they are poor and can't afford it, there will be a small subsidy to cover the cost.

These aren't embedded chips, they are bracelets or belt hanger devices.

I can understand your perspective, and I would probably feel the same way if I were in your situation.

Autism isn't a disability? Perhaps your type of "autism" isn't. What would you call this type of autism, you know, the classic kind before the DSM was enlarged to include quirky folks?

Chaos, you know what's interesting? Conservative Republicans, and I mean really right wing Republicans, not mainstream, are some of the best allies of the autistic community. Why? Because these Republicans, and its a small number, have someone in their family with autism. Often, when you directly experience…

Don't Mourn for US isn't the one I was going to reference. Here is the one dealing with first person language, which I wanted to share with you.

Organized, here is another way to think of this. The severely autistic children and adults have a broken mind, much like a person or child that may have legs that don't work or are paralyzed. What do we do in the case of those children? We subsidize wheel chairs for the poor. Now, should we say no one gets a wheel…

Once it comes to subsidizing costs, I would have to see some more concrete numbers before I could make a decision on it.

I would agree every child is equally important and I'd be for every child having one of these. However, that isn't a good argument to say "unless every child gets one" no one else can get one. Society should address acute needs first. I don't think there is a parent of a child with autism that wouldn't support…

Are you familiar with Jim Sinclair?

Their parents. Take the neurodiversity crap and move on.

On this I agree with Adam. Autistic is the proper word. Autism isn't like a shirt that can be taken off. We don't refer to catholics as "persons with catholicism". I understand person first language, but in this case, autism is more than a choice, more than a trait. It colors everything in the autistics life. …

The closest I can think of to describe it is that it feels like we're being treated as commodity, something that can be quantified and watched at every turn, like it or not. Again, like cattle.

Government can help though with the power of negotiating prices for parents without the means. Government wouldn't mandate, just set up a situation where the size of the government can be used to negotiate cheaper prices, which is all Schumer's bill would do, along with a means test to help with subsidizing the cost.…