If You Happen to Be Near a TV on Tuesday morning around 8am…..
June 9, 2008 by Kristina Chew, PhD
Filed under Health
Thanks to everyone who tuned in to Good Morning America this morning—-the segment on neurodiversity has been pushed to tomorrow, Tuesday, June 10th, sometime around 8 AM to 8:30 am. Speaking in it will be Ari Ne’eman, president of the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network (ASAN); Dr. Tom Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), and me.
Cool, I’ll be home at that time!
Whew! Glad I was not cracking up. Too bad I fast forwarded through my recording twice thinking I surely missed it the first time around. I will record it again tomorrow.
Is this live? You might want to ask Dr. Insel if he’s got data on the number of autistic adults who wear diapers.
I watched it this morning and noted that it wasn’t on today. Too bad; I’ll just have to remember to not stay up too late tonight and wake up in time for tomorrow.
That’s great though that they’ll be bringing you guys and this important topic to so many viewers!
i watched it, missed the segment. hopefully it will be on tomorrow. I just wish they would allow those of us who have suffered from this horrible disability and wish it could be cured and regard neurodiversity as a simplistic quick fix could be allowed equal time, but i guess that is not going to happen.
jonathan, it would be interesting if they did a segment on the effects of low self esteem caused by bullying, lack of opportunity and exclusion and how that can lead to a sense of powerlessness.
you might ask Dr, Insel what happens when you mix lead or mercury with chlorine, and if it good for your health.
CS- I agree with you
It’s not live—-Ari and I were interviewed last Monday in Jersey City at my office building, and Dr. Insel was interviewed later in the week. A live discussion would certainly be interesting.
I hope I’ll be able to catch this!
Hey! I was right!
I forgot to turn on the TV today until about the last 10 minutes of GMA. I watched kids doing ballroom dancing. I figured maybe I had missed the piece on autism. I’ll try again for tomorrow.
Yes I was remembering your comment today!
Hey Jonathan, what have you done for my autistic kid lately?
Neurodiversity is making the world a safer place for my autistic kid by trying to contradict that hateful and toxic descriptions of autism that pervade the media (some of which Tom Insel produces from time to time from his ivory tower of cluelessness).
What does wanting a cure for future autistic kids do for my kid?
Not a thing.
So how do you get to gripe about the unrealistic goals of neurodiversity when you do nothing to contribute to the betterment of my child’s future, while Ari Ne’eman does.
your dreaming if you think Ari is doing anything to contribute to the betterment of your child’s future. I never said that doing scientific research on autistic children would necessarily do anything for your child. There are no easy answers. Neurodiversity is certainly no answer, and the simplistic solutions of easily changing society will never happen and are even less likely than a cure being found.
As far as hateful and toxic behavior and rhetoric, this seems to come at least as much if not more from neurodiversity adherents than it does from the other side. The nasty abortion cartoon on autistics.org, the autism bitch from hell claiming that autism speaks is trying to commit genocide. They are all hateful nasty comments. As well as some of your comments saying that certain people who want to help their seriously disabled son are “spoiled hollywood types” and things like that. Just remember, Ms. Clark, hate begets hate, it is something that I think most neurodiversity adherents can’t seem to grasp.
I had very few friends and no girlfriends long before I had even heard of autism let alone when people were calling autism a “toxic waste dump” as you claim. No, neurodiversity is not the answer for your child or anyone else, no matter how much you and the rest of the ND crowd cry your tears for toasted snow.
I whole-heartedly agree with Ms Clark. Gosh, Jonathan, it would be nice if you could perhaps mentor or tutor an ASD Angeleno youth. I am very thankful to Ari for contributing to the betterment of my child’s future.
Bummer, I have to work this morning, but hopefully they’ll have it on their site later today. If not maybe someone will youtube it?
actually long-time poster I would be more interested in working with an autistic adult than a youth. Though i would be open to doing something with a youth as well. Autistic adults are a forgotten part of the population and this needs attention and i might be interested in doing this especially if i could make a little money which i am not making now but no one wants someone with no experience with people withdevelopemental disabilities. if you know of an opportunity where i could do something like that please email me from the link i provide in this comment board.
Kristina,
I just saw the segment on the GMA website.
Thank you. Very much.
Matt
I watched GMA and all ti told me is like they say that the water is fine, and ever one should try it. I was hopeing is was going to be more informative then just giving AUTISM a new name. Now you don”t need to say that you have AUTISM you are just neuroniversty.
@donald savitz, though I don’t know if it would go into the DSM…..
@Matt, thank you!