Comments on: Cognitive Deficits and Magical Thinking http://www.blisstree.com/articles/cognitive-deficits-and-magical-thinking/ Family, Health, Home and Lifestyles Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:55:46 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Correlations and Vaccines, and Common Sense http://www.blisstree.com/articles/cognitive-deficits-and-magical-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-547588 Correlations and Vaccines, and Common Sense Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:33:54 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/cognitive-deficits-and-magical-thinking/#comment-547588 [...] at all, Dr. Treffert, invoking common sense, concludes. Perhaps there’s more than a little magical thinking—-of associative thinking—about the causes of autism, going on. And the solutions [...] [...] at all, Dr. Treffert, invoking common sense, concludes. Perhaps there’s more than a little magical thinking—-of associative thinking—about the causes of autism, going on. And the solutions [...]

]]> By: Phil Schwarz http://www.blisstree.com/articles/cognitive-deficits-and-magical-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-534063 Phil Schwarz Sun, 29 Apr 2007 03:33:04 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/cognitive-deficits-and-magical-thinking/#comment-534063 Can't say that "Jabberwocky" describes our family's approach to autism at all :-) -- but you might get a chuckle or two from this: http://www76.pair.com/keithlim/jabberwocky/ Some of the translations and some of the parodies are hilarious. The Yiddish translation is a riot both for the convincing ease with which the invented words are assimilated into Yiddish sound and syntax, and for the cross-cultural cognitive dissonances. I think you'll get a kick out of the Latin and Greek translations and the (I kid you not) New Jersey parody. Can’t say that “Jabberwocky” describes our family’s approach to autism at all :-) — but you might get a chuckle or two from this:

http://www76.pair.com/keithlim/jabberwocky/

Some of the translations and some of the parodies are hilarious. The Yiddish translation is a riot both for the convincing ease with which the invented words are assimilated into Yiddish sound and syntax, and for the cross-cultural cognitive dissonances.

I think you’ll get a kick out of the Latin and Greek translations and the (I kid you not) New Jersey parody.

]]> By: Autism Vox » Riding the Trains, Reading the Signs http://www.blisstree.com/articles/cognitive-deficits-and-magical-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-533773 Autism Vox » Riding the Trains, Reading the Signs Thu, 26 Apr 2007 04:24:49 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/cognitive-deficits-and-magical-thinking/#comment-533773 [...] of an anxiety moment, often talks about the one thing that he most wants, as if for a moment of magical thinking there is the belief that thinking will make it [...] [...] of an anxiety moment, often talks about the one thing that he most wants, as if for a moment of magical thinking there is the belief that thinking will make it [...]

]]> By: Autism Vox » Here I Am http://www.blisstree.com/articles/cognitive-deficits-and-magical-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-528227 Autism Vox » Here I Am Mon, 28 Aug 2006 05:23:24 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/cognitive-deficits-and-magical-thinking/#comment-528227 [...] Though he has never said it, “here I am” is what Charlie is saying to us, wordlessly, each and every day, with every look flashed to us from his big brown eyes, with his delighted smile to be swimming in the ocean. It is remarkably hard for a parent to hear that “here I am,” and not only because (in Charlie’s case) words are not his best means of communication. Too often, we parents get stuck in some magical thinking and think, wish, that we can change our child into the child we believe we ought to have, and not the child who stands before us. [...] [...] Though he has never said it, “here I am” is what Charlie is saying to us, wordlessly, each and every day, with every look flashed to us from his big brown eyes, with his delighted smile to be swimming in the ocean. It is remarkably hard for a parent to hear that “here I am,” and not only because (in Charlie’s case) words are not his best means of communication. Too often, we parents get stuck in some magical thinking and think, wish, that we can change our child into the child we believe we ought to have, and not the child who stands before us. [...]

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