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All Humans have Autistic traits

David

This Morning I heard Simon Baron  Cohen  say that we all have Autistic traits just that Autsitic people have it more than others.

It is wrong to make out that Autistic people all the time cannot read other peoples minds and people who do not have Autism can always do so.

Especially people at the top end of the Spectrum can sometimes read peoples minds better than so called NTS.

They were discussing the book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night by Mark Haddon which is going to be on at the National Theatre as a play.

This is a play about a boy who was supposed to be Autistic.

What  I like about that play is that it is the father who was the criminal shooting the dog.

David

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  • Simon Baron Cohen has made a good living as an autism expert and unfortunately everything he says is taken as gospel because of his reputation.  For example, extreme male brain and 'autistics lack empathy' are total rubbish and perpetuate a myth that cause us problems with people in our everyday lives.

    The book was 'ok', but that's it.  The author is NT and not autistic.
     

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  • Simon Baron Cohen has made a good living as an autism expert and unfortunately everything he says is taken as gospel because of his reputation.  For example, extreme male brain and 'autistics lack empathy' are total rubbish and perpetuate a myth that cause us problems with people in our everyday lives.

    The book was 'ok', but that's it.  The author is NT and not autistic.
     

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