AUTISM, HOMEOPATHY & A WEB-SERIES THAT MADE ME THINK How a Fictional Doctor Changed My Real-World Research Plans I have never examined an autistic child in my college OPD. Truth be told, my institute hardly gets any paediatric cases, let alone special-needs children. So my only “clinical exposure” to Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) came through binge-watching the medical web-series “Miracle” (yes, the one with Dr. Ali Wefa). The show-runners did something rare: they cast an ASD boy as a main character, not a sympathy prop. I found myself pausing episodes, scribbling notes on his sensory meltdowns, his echolalia, his photographic memory of drug doses. This made me to search through PubMed, then to Cochrane, and finally to the question: “ Where does homoeopathy stand in this spectrum? ” Here is the article that grew out of those midnight screens with lots of curiosity. “They don’...