Did you see ABC’s 20/20 on Friday night? It was a fascinating story about a family, The Wendrows, whose daughter, Aislinn, had a severe case of autism and how they found what is known as “facilitated communication”.

Facilitated communication is when a trained facilitator holds the hand of an autistic person and supposedly “helps” them communicate via a keyboard. As the story unfolds, it becomes clear that facilitated communication is sham.

However, Aislinn, supposedly typed through the aid of a new facilitator how her father was molesting her causing things to spiral out of control for the Wendrow family.

Aislinn and her brother were immediately taken away from their parents, and Aislinn’s father, Julian, was arrested and locked up in solitary confinement for 80 days and faced 75 years in prison, if convicted.

The story is riveting, but most of all: sad. Julian Wendrow went through hell and back on something that had no scientific basis. While the case was eventually dropped, Julian showed true and sincere emotions, and I absolutely believe he is innocent without question. I believe Julian is honest.

Hello…I was hoping to get back to the blog tomorrow, but bad luck has just struck. My computer hard drive has failed for the 3rd time — my 4th failure on two exact HP models that my family owns in three years. This is insane. I complained to HP when my parents hard drive failed — get this –just a couple of weeks ago and they agreed to do the repair out of warranty and told me they would do no other. My parents will get their computer back fixed, and now I am hung again. This is flat out unacceptable. I wrote the HP corporate manager…I wonder what she’ll say…it doesn’t look good. I’ll likely be computer shopping next week… That’s bad luck, wouldn’t you say? Stay tuned.