Comments on: Study on Adults with Asperger’s in MN

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 05:11:37 +0000

@C.S. Wyatt, hope you are well, or better—would much like to know what you find out about this study.

By: C. S. Wyatt

C. S. Wyatt — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:55:06 +0000

I would want to see more about this study, definitely. I’ll see what I can do to contact the authors directly, since I have seen more issues at the college level.

I’ve been offline much of the last month, for medical reasons, and hope to be back to research work ASAP. MN is at least an interesting place to be for autism research.

By: Melody

Melody — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 15:33:05 +0000

Yeah, I really wish they would stop trying to divide us and pull us apart so much (autistic people). More often than not, it leads to appropriate and needed services being denied rather than distributed, and potentials being ignored, stereotypes perpetuated. I really hope that it is true that the DSM-V goes through with having a generic ASD category.

Also something that some people don’t expect, is that while I express the autistic traits a lot more strongly than my dad, and to the degree that I am disabled (whereas with time he wouldn’t be considered disabled), that I actually am attaininghigher schoolingthan my parents have, going to college to get a degree.

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 03:44:13 +0000

It gives me hope too though my son’s diagnosis is autism—–my son always gives me hope.

By: Cristina

Cristina — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 03:13:38 +0000

This isan interesting study. It certainly validates what I see in my own children as they mature. I wish it was true for all Aspergers cases though. But it certainly gives me hope.

By: Catana

Catana — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 02:39:37 +0000

Thanks for that link. I saw the article a while ago and wondered if the study was available online. We need more of that.