Comments on: How To Deal With Your Mild Autism(?): Wired Wiki http://www.blisstree.com/articles/how-to-deal-with-your-mild-autism-wired-wiki/ Family, Health, Home and Lifestyles Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:59:21 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Navidad http://www.blisstree.com/articles/how-to-deal-with-your-mild-autism-wired-wiki/comment-page-1/#comment-555408 Navidad Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:06:50 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/how-to-deal-with-your-mild-autism-wired-wiki/#comment-555408 hmmm... I'm glad we don't just base it on Kanner's. because based on Kanner's my nonverbal, very autistic son would not be autistic... hmmm… I’m glad we don’t just base it on Kanner’s. because based on Kanner’s my nonverbal, very autistic son would not be autistic…

]]> By: Paula http://www.blisstree.com/articles/how-to-deal-with-your-mild-autism-wired-wiki/comment-page-1/#comment-562756 Paula Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:34:47 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/how-to-deal-with-your-mild-autism-wired-wiki/#comment-562756 Actually, I dislike this article. It trivializes things that really &are& difficult. It's like it's saying, "Just don't act like an Aspie; it's just the Asperger's." As though it were all about socially acceptable behavior. That's just a little part of "mild autism." Someone touches you and it feels like a belt sander ripping through your skin? It's just the Asperger's.... Cant' remember what someone you just met looks like? Have trouble tripping over things? It's the AS. Not a big deal... Ick. Actually, I dislike this article. It trivializes things that really &are& difficult. It’s like it’s saying, “Just don’t act like an Aspie; it’s just the Asperger’s.” As though it were all about socially acceptable behavior. That’s just a little part of “mild autism.” Someone touches you and it feels like a belt sander ripping through your skin? It’s just the Asperger’s…. Cant’ remember what someone you just met looks like? Have trouble tripping over things? It’s the AS. Not a big deal… Ick.

]]> By: RAJ http://www.blisstree.com/articles/how-to-deal-with-your-mild-autism-wired-wiki/comment-page-1/#comment-549318 RAJ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:36:59 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/how-to-deal-with-your-mild-autism-wired-wiki/#comment-549318 "You know sommat Raj, with the number of genes they are turning up don’t think you’ll escape some in your mixture, they are everywhere". There are no autism specific genes that have ever been identified. Name one and I'll be glad to show you where you are wrong. “You know sommat Raj, with the number of genes they are turning up don’t think you’ll escape some in your mixture, they are everywhere”.

There are no autism specific genes that have ever been identified. Name one and I’ll be glad to show you where you are wrong.

]]> By: There’s a Poem At the End of This http://www.blisstree.com/articles/how-to-deal-with-your-mild-autism-wired-wiki/comment-page-1/#comment-561744 There’s a Poem At the End of This Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:56:50 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/how-to-deal-with-your-mild-autism-wired-wiki/#comment-561744 [...] on whether the term “mild autism” is still in use and Larry on the “pop psychology typical of wired [...] [...] on whether the term “mild autism” is still in use and Larry on the “pop psychology typical of wired [...]

]]> By: laurentius-rex http://www.blisstree.com/articles/how-to-deal-with-your-mild-autism-wired-wiki/comment-page-1/#comment-550033 laurentius-rex Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:11:17 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/how-to-deal-with-your-mild-autism-wired-wiki/#comment-550033 I would agree at least with Raj that the article is trivial, though it is not the worst I have read, just bad that is all. However I would not let RAJ run anything on the railways other than a steam engine. Kanners "science" was soft too, if you fossilise science in the 1940's as you would if you took Kanner at face value, we would not be using much technology today, because it would be unconcievable under the rules of that fossilised science. We long ago got over notions of relying on Galen, and Hippocrates for our ailments, (except for the irrational homeopaths) time to stop relying on old definitions just because you like it that way and cannot deal with the cognitive dissonance generated by a progressive and ever moving target. You know sommat Raj, with the number of genes they are turning up don't think you'll escape some in your mixture, they are everywhere. I would agree at least with Raj that the article is trivial, though it is not the worst I have read, just bad that is all.

However I would not let RAJ run anything on the railways other than a steam engine.

Kanners “science” was soft too, if you fossilise science in the 1940’s as you would if you took Kanner at face value, we would not be using much technology today, because it would be unconcievable under the rules of that fossilised science.

We long ago got over notions of relying on Galen, and Hippocrates for our ailments, (except for the irrational homeopaths) time to stop relying on old definitions just because you like it that way and cannot deal with the cognitive dissonance generated by a progressive and ever moving target.

You know sommat Raj, with the number of genes they are turning up don’t think you’ll escape some in your mixture, they are everywhere.

]]> By: M http://www.blisstree.com/articles/how-to-deal-with-your-mild-autism-wired-wiki/comment-page-1/#comment-560192 M Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:49:22 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/how-to-deal-with-your-mild-autism-wired-wiki/#comment-560192 "It is over generalised and insufficiently specific, and that is only the start." The alternative is to have a "correct" or "specific" list...which would probably come off as pedantic and off-putting. I'd much rather see flawed attempts at humor than "accurate"...and therefore boring...descriptions. I don't know. There's got to be some way to make this sort of thing inclusive, open, less serious. Not always, but at least sometimes. “It is over generalised and insufficiently specific, and that is only the start.”

The alternative is to have a “correct” or “specific” list…which would probably come off as pedantic and off-putting. I’d much rather see flawed attempts at humor than “accurate”…and therefore boring…descriptions. I don’t know. There’s got to be some way to make this sort of thing inclusive, open, less serious. Not always, but at least sometimes.

]]> By: RAJ http://www.blisstree.com/articles/how-to-deal-with-your-mild-autism-wired-wiki/comment-page-1/#comment-562491 RAJ Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:57:49 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/how-to-deal-with-your-mild-autism-wired-wiki/#comment-562491 The true believers in Behavioral Genetics have trivialized a profound developmental disorder who for the majority of cases face a lifelong disability. Behavioral Genetics is a soft science that rejects Kanner's definition (Kanner's definition has been completly removed from diagnostic criteria in 1994 by DSM-IV, ICD-10 and all the Gold Standard diagnostic tools such as ADI-R, ADOS-R, ADOS-G). The true believers, using questionnaires, now report that 10% of the entire general population are afflicted with 'autistic-like traits' with the top 5% highest scoring being escribed as havig 'extreme autistic-like traits': http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17003666? Prevelance rates are now headed towards 1 in 10 of the general population. The true believers in Behavioral Genetics have trivialized a profound developmental disorder who for the majority of cases face a lifelong disability. Behavioral Genetics is a soft science that rejects Kanner’s definition (Kanner’s definition has been completly removed from diagnostic criteria in 1994 by DSM-IV, ICD-10 and all the Gold Standard diagnostic tools such as ADI-R, ADOS-R, ADOS-G).

The true believers, using questionnaires, now report that 10% of the entire general population are afflicted with ‘autistic-like traits’ with the top 5% highest scoring being escribed as havig ‘extreme autistic-like traits’:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17003666?

Prevelance rates are now headed towards 1 in 10 of the general population.

]]> By: laurentius-rex http://www.blisstree.com/articles/how-to-deal-with-your-mild-autism-wired-wiki/comment-page-1/#comment-562488 laurentius-rex Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:56:42 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/how-to-deal-with-your-mild-autism-wired-wiki/#comment-562488 Is this for serious or patronising bull. It is a comtemptible attempt at shallow understanding and pop psychology typical of wired. It is over generalised and insufficiently specific, and that is only the start. Is this for serious or patronising bull.

It is a comtemptible attempt at shallow understanding and pop psychology typical of wired.

It is over generalised and insufficiently specific, and that is only the start.

]]> By: Norah http://www.blisstree.com/articles/how-to-deal-with-your-mild-autism-wired-wiki/comment-page-1/#comment-561554 Norah Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:33:20 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/how-to-deal-with-your-mild-autism-wired-wiki/#comment-561554 Mild autism? That's still in use? Mild autism? That’s still in use?

]]> By: Shawn3k http://www.blisstree.com/articles/how-to-deal-with-your-mild-autism-wired-wiki/comment-page-1/#comment-556442 Shawn3k Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:37:45 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/how-to-deal-with-your-mild-autism-wired-wiki/#comment-556442 It certainly would if I knew of how to go about teaching him latin. I have an English B.A. from Syracuse, but my concentration was Victorian Lit. His fascination pretty much focuses on the military, when it comes to medieval topics. It certainly would if I knew of how to go about teaching him latin. I have an English B.A. from Syracuse, but my concentration was Victorian Lit. His fascination pretty much focuses on the military, when it comes to medieval topics.

]]>