10,000 stories: The sickest generation of children

'What have you done about the epidemic of chronic disease?' Robert Kennedy to Senator Patty Murray

About 20 years ago I started monitoring how the media covers autism. Back then I used to write to reporters and editors who covered autism to alert them to the epidemic that was just getting started. As the mother of a son with autism and as a teacher, I could see something was really, really wrong. There were never kids like this filling our classrooms…