Comments on: Believe

By: A Christmas Once Missed, and a Christmas Gift For Always

A Christmas Once Missed, and a Christmas Gift For Always — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 07:33:20 +0000

[...] not the least because I want Charlie to know that we always, always believe in him, and that every day we spend with him is the best present there can be, this Christmas and for [...]

By: Last Week’s Top Posts

Last Week’s Top Posts — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:21:19 +0000

[...] Believe Charlie and I take a red eye flight home from San Francisco; I watch the Spiderwick Chronicles and a cat gets out of its bag. [...]

By: Mary (MPJ)

Mary (MPJ) — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:41:21 +0000

Kristina, I don’t comment here — I was going to say often, but I realized I should say “at all.” But this was just so lovely, I had to stop by and say so. It captured so much of how I feel about my son and how he has changed my view of the world. It’s different, but parallel to the ways in which coping with addiction in my family have changed the way I see the world and people in it.

Also wanted to say that it was fun to see you and Charlie on Good Morning America — my favorite part was when you said you don’t feel you are suffering. I was thinking the same thing about myself as you said it.

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:32:34 +0000

my emotional guy brings out all the emotions in me —–

By: Karen Carter

Karen Carter — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:17:47 +0000

Kristina, you’re one of the most eloquent writers I know. K.

By: Regan

Regan — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:24:34 +0000

Both stories beautiful–both yours, Kristina, and the one from allAfrica. Refreshing and welcome antidotes to the usual.
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On the flip side,
“masterpiece I read yesterday, autistics apparently also have “little sense of self”, “inability to experience pride””

If this guy is a forensic psychologist and director of a clinical practice, he might consider taking up a different line of work for the sake of his clients because he sounds like a poor observer to me, and not necessarily someone who would see, or help bring out the best in a client.

By: Synesthesia

Synesthesia — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:51:20 +0000

Urg. That’s about as annoying as this book I read called The Last Don (OT QUEEN!!!) which had an autistic character and some doctor in France was saying how they have no sense of time, no feelings, no emotions, can’t love. ARGS.
These folks go on and on about how autistic people have no empathy, then they can’t ever learn to see stuff through the eyes of people with autism instead of projecting.

it’s quite irratating.
Especially since there are so many things that are a lot worse… like psychosis…

By: Tara

Tara — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:18:58 +0000

@Synesthesia,

according to this masterpiece I read yesterday, autistics apparently also have “little sense of self”, “inability to experience pride” and, to summarize:

“No other psychiatric diagnosis has more profound negative implications than autism.”

Link:
http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/autism/article/10168/1147441

I stumbled onto article because someone on mental health support forum I read posted a link to psychosis/infections correlation article I wanted to read. Then I made the unfortunate mistake of going to the autism section of the site and run into this.

The author of the article claims to be “the director of a clinical practice and a forensic psychology consulting firm”. If someone with the background in forensic psychology cannot think of any psychiatric diagnosis with worse negative implications than autism then world must have become much better place while I wasn’t paying attention…

I’ll take what Mr Ojugbuna has to say over this “expert” any day.

By: Synesthesia

Synesthesia — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:58:34 +0000

Bernie’s about the size of a dachshund… A bit bigger.

And I don’t know how some folks can think autistic folks don’t have emotion. That never makes sense to me.

By: Emily

Emily — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:12:21 +0000

But you have to pay $100+ per pet (each way), they have to fit in a carrier that fits under the seat in front of you, and there are limits to the total number that can be on the plane at one time, so you have to be first or second in line or Fido can’t fly. We’ve flown a few times with our dachshund, so that’s how I know this.