ASPIE STRATEGY: The Hidden Autistics - Asperger's in Adults Recently I encountered a problem while collaborating with a group therapist with whom I share a patient. My patient has progressed quickly in therapy, as do many adults on the spectrum. However he did not start off as stereotypically autistic. It took a few sessions to realize this fine gentleman suffered mightly with the symtoms of Asperger Syndrome, which he kept well managed and thoroughly hidden. In fact, "Joe", as we'll call him, socialized quite well. Diagnosing this man was problematic. Partners of people on the spectrum are drawn to what they can sense is inside their partner. So what was the problem I ran into with the collaborating therapist? One person remains unconvinced. I'd like to write more about this "hidden autistic" phenomena.
The Aspergian Mythos and Ethos posted September 06, 2008 02:23 PM A forgotten civilisation We call this land Aspergia. We pronounce it so because no one knows what its real name was, or the tongue spoken by its people. Aspergia; a land surrounded by oceans, as far as the eye can see. A land of sea-gazing people, Aspergians, who venture into the great waters for fishing, but never the great distances required to find others, although they fiercely believe they exist.. Many, Many eons in the past, this new civilisation was founded, building great towers and dwellings, and thriving in a social structure, very different to that which we observe today. Despite being surrounded by oceans and no knowledge of another land, far or near, the Aspergians strongly held that there are others beyond the great waters. There were ancient stories told of encounters with other peoples from beyond the sea, who landed on Aspergia and even took some of its residents with them.
Autistic Culture Definition Autistic culture is culture built around the ways of speaking, thinking, and acting that come naturally to autistic people, or which have been created in Autistic communities. Description Autistic culture is the culture created by and for autistics. Much of it has been developed in the Autistic community, while other parts of it have developed as a result of interactions outside of it. Autistic culture has been studied by cultural anthropologists. Autistic culture has developed its own customs, traditions, and approaches to expression and social interaction. -List of related media/links -List of concrete examples Case example: At Autreat, attendees wear color-coded badges to indicate whether or not they want people to talk to them. See Also Autreat
using vulcan I don't care for the sound of ASS BURGERS, either, and I cannot understand the insistence on adding a superfluous S to the end of a word that already ends with an S, it seems stupid and unwieldy and only adds to the ASS BURGERS sound, so I never use it. Of course, if you're saying it correctly, it should sound as Ahz-pair-gur Syndrome anyway, but few ever pronounce it properly. That said, I don't really find your proposed syllables any better. I'm glad they sound nice to you, but they sound liquid and gurgly to me, like something made up by a preschooler. Even if they have some scientific meaning (and I don't see it if they do), I think you'll have a hard time getting the entirety of Scientific Academia and the Autistic Community to switch at this point. But good luck with that.
the politics of asperger's (via pvidyasagar dot wordpress dot com) don't need this noun. the ego is a matter of boundaries drawn, some of them more permeable than others. it is possible to "sit back" & watch things happen, even in the innermost citadel; to disown one's voice. then what remains? the habit of description. cliches of conceptuality. the old binary pairs, starting with "inside" & "outside". we know that perception occurs, in the beings that live & whose lives depend on being elusive. sometimes our instruments correlate, such as photometers, to the point where we can declare that "light" is something both "internal" & "external". to the instruments: photons. to the mind: brightness. but what explanations are good for, lies elsewhere. we can perfect a machine that turns light into data; we can sharpen our senses, too. what kind of story could we tell, that would make the brightness collapse into one thing, light?
the only wise to begin with Loud Hands Unlike a good, large number of people in the autism community, I had never heard the phrase "quiet hands" until fairly recently, when I read this article by Julia Bascom, which so eloquently describes the abusive side of Applied Behavioral Analysis—commonly touted as the most common "evidence-based" intervention or therapy for autism. I almost cried. "When I was six years old, people who were much bigger than me with loud echoing voices held my hands down in textures that hurt worse than my broken wrist while I cried and begged and pleaded and screamed."— Julia Bascom Quiet hands. It is a quick, easy way to silence Autistic people. Having quiet hands means giving in to systemic ableism and letting external standards of "normality" and "acceptability" dictate one's behavior at all times. I don't want to have quiet hands. And that's why I'm writing about the Loud Hands Project. Julia has described the next three benchmarks for future funds: This is why the Loud Hands Project is important.