Jenny McCarthy's New Book about Autism

(Note: Jenny's book will be out in Sept 2007. I was watching her on "The View" this morning where she was guest hosting & she mentioned her new book. As a Mom of a son with autism, I am looking forward to this book being released. My kudos to Jenny!)

Jenny McCarthy's newest book to show she's still kind of crazy, just in a different way now
by J.D. Griffioen

The last time I thought about Jenny McCarthy was 1994. I was a junior in high school and mesmerized by her heaving. . .locks of golden blond hair as she bounced around the stage of MTV's queue-based dating show Singled Out. But as happens to the best of us, she has since become a parent. The assets that allowed her to grace the cover of Playboy became sources of ample nourishment. And apparently she has brains as well as boobs, because she has already written three parenting books and she has just announced that she is publishing a fourth about the supernatural qualities of her autistic son.

Apparently, as Kristin noted a while back McCarthy has created this hippie-dippy new-agey website about Indigo Children: "a special group of gifted enlightened old souls who have been born unto this planet to help transform the consciousness of this world, and to guide us all towards a higher level of evolution. They are the "System Busters", the "Spiritual Warriors", here to break down all of the old traditional paradigm systems within our educational, political, religious, medical, nutritional, technological, family and all fear-based belief systems." Uh, okay.

Her new book, about her 4-year-old son, Evan, is to be called Louder than Words: A Mother's Journey In Healing Autism. "It's a heartbreaking story about a serious health issue," Jenny told In Touch magazine. McCarthy says she has made it her life's mission to change the education system to make it better for kids like Evan. "I want our children to start each day in silent meditation," she says. "I want organic cafeterias, outdoor class sessions, getting rid of rote memorization. I want it all." Wow, I guess that's parenthood for you. One day you are sticking your tongue out and shaking your tatas for millions of teenage oglers, then next thing you know your mission in life is getting the school cafeteria to stock organic blueberries and convincing the principal to end the tyranny of spelling tests.