A Match Made in Hell

On her Twitter feed, Michelle Dawson picks up on the troubling circumstances autistic kids face on a daily basis:

"There is a puzzle piece missing in their brain"--one way typical children (10yrs) now describe atypical children http://t.co/1ElTk7XD8x
— Michelle Dawson (@autismcrisis) June 15, 2013

In parsing that sentence, I notice that the first half (“There is a puzzle piece”) is supplied by the advocacy of groups such as Autism Speaks, and the second half (“missing in their brain”) is harnessed from the shibboleths of neuroscience. Talk about a nasty double team.