Posted on 02/10/2010 1:37:39 PM PST by GOP_Raider
Nor am trying to be insensitive, I just believe people that aren't bright enough to know when they are too ignorant to speak intelligently should keep quiet.
To me that kind of spouting off is the sign of someone that missed a needed spanking.
Your tagline says it all!
I don't believe in just beating kids for not conforming - I guess I'm not smart.
Net too wide?
When a disorder goes from affecting 1 in 10,000 to 1 in < 200,
you cannot cast the net too wide.
That order of magnitude is not explicable by increased awareness and reporting, or people just making things up.
For all of the people here, that award themselves a recognition of intelligence for merely not being liberal,there is an overwhelming lack of flat out common sense.
Yes. You must be very smart.
One was a device overblown by burnt out yuppies, (who presumably had the cognizance to go that route)....the former is a burden on children too young to have even fully developed self awareness
When the bar is set so low that almost anyone can qualify, then words start to lose meaning. But then again that was always the goal of the liberals.
It’s a stupid decision on the part of the DSM. It’s like folding in nearsightedness, farsightedness, single eye blindness, colorblindness, night blindness et al into the label of “Blind” or “vision impaired”. A nearsighted person isn’t “blind”, but rather, simply nearsighted and needs to adjust their vision, much like how people with AS need to adjust their social settings. I’ve learned never to go to bars, clubs or anything of the sort and to try to live alone or with other people with AS who can understand me.
A lot of people with Autism just have a touch of the disorder and others are barely stopping themselves from drooling. A good example would be my personal life. In any lab, I’m usually the quickest person once I get to know what I’m doing and how to do it, provided it’s explained to me in a black and white, formula filled way and not because I’m just “told” to do something. That’s how I learned how to fix a bicycle, fix a computer and to A person with classic autism wouldn’t be able to do either.
This is going to get reworked soon because other spectrum disorders have certain terms for certian ends of the spectrum. A good example is the schizophrenia spectrum with Schizoid PD, Schizotypical PD and Schizophrenia. It’s not all Schizophrenia.
I probably see it as this, all under the blanket of “Autism”. They can’t fold in Autism without folding in Schizophrenia (Which, IMHO, will be the next big thing to explain why Johnny is a bit odd).
PDD: A lack of ability to pick up on nonverbal communication with no significant intellectual delay.
AS: Same as above, except it includes significant lack of eye contact, ritual thinking and little to no intellectual delay, but social skill delay. May show savantlike abilities in a few narrow subjects.
Kanner’s Syndrome: Profound intellectual delay as well as social and communication delay.
They will revise this.
Temple Grandin. Fascinating woman. She was the keynote speaker at my professional convention two years ago. I didn't doubt her Asperger's diagnosis for a moment! If she's capitalizing on her disability, I say more power to her. I have a disabled brother; would that he could profit from his blindness. It would sure beat the heck out of his unemployment.
Good for you for coming out o’ the closet. Embrace the spectrum, Raider! ;)
Obviously, there are a few here who don’t buy into it; maybe they know far better than I do. I mean, I’ve only spent my entire professional career in the field of special education. Never mind that I work with kiddos with autism, PDD, and Asperger’s every day of the week. What do I know?
Oh, come now. You’re obviously a TEACHER. Perhaps you’re even in a horrid Teacher’s UNION. Plus you sound like you must have specialized education, which makes you an ELITIST.
How can we possibly take anything you say seriously? You’re obviously a LIEBIRAL STOOGE and TROLL!/sarc
People like that made it hell for me growing up. Thankfully there were enough people that saw the potential in me and instead nurtured me growing up. I’ll never be “cured” but have been able to be a almost normal functioning member of society who has actually done very well for himself.
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