Know Your Autism
September 8, 2006 by Kristina Chew, PhD
Filed under Health
As a coda to yesterday’s Top 10 Reasons Why Socrates May Have Been Autistic, here is is in the Greek for “Know thyself”:
Gnothi sauton.
The ancient Greek word for “yourself” here, sauton, is formed from the singular form of “you,” se, and auton (a form of autos—it is the word in the accusative case, for you grammarians, or former students of Latin or Greek). And autos, of course, is the ancient Greek word that is the root of “autism.”
If I may mis- or overinterpret the Greek phrase somewhat, I would add:
Know your autism.
i always tell my students “you have to know your own brain”, for anything from study skills to the advisbaility (or not) of moderate alcohol consumption.
I think I may borrow that phrase for my classroom at the appropriate moment, if I might.
sure, go ahead. (^_^)
and i’m glad to have an excuse to re-post, not only becos i miss-spelled “ad vis a bil i ty” but also becos i had meant to say that i wouldn’t have had that idea if not for my own brain functioning sometimes so differently from how i was told brains were supposed to function.
i always seem to leave the missing link out of ideas. it’s there, but invisible.
Fascinating. Autism, the experience of it, and the knowledge of it, can be very complex.