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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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  • I think the reason is girls are less noticed than boys because they are less agressive with their parents and at school.

    I have been thinking that for years.

    I remember an incident in a shop nearly twenty years ago that was about the time I first heard of Asperger.

    A girl was belching with her mouth.

    Her Mum said stop it or you will have to go to bed.

    She did stop.

    Many boys would not have stopped as they constantly fight their parents.

    If you are not agressive you can still be Autistic but you might not be noticed by the Doctors.

    When I was nine I partly went to the Maudsley as I made a tantrum in my Doctors surgery about having to wait too long to see the Doctor.  The Maudsley recommended an Autistic School I did not go to.

    I would like to have a film of a badly behaved child or adult and say that person is NOT Autistic.

    David

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  • I think the reason is girls are less noticed than boys because they are less agressive with their parents and at school.

    I have been thinking that for years.

    I remember an incident in a shop nearly twenty years ago that was about the time I first heard of Asperger.

    A girl was belching with her mouth.

    Her Mum said stop it or you will have to go to bed.

    She did stop.

    Many boys would not have stopped as they constantly fight their parents.

    If you are not agressive you can still be Autistic but you might not be noticed by the Doctors.

    When I was nine I partly went to the Maudsley as I made a tantrum in my Doctors surgery about having to wait too long to see the Doctor.  The Maudsley recommended an Autistic School I did not go to.

    I would like to have a film of a badly behaved child or adult and say that person is NOT Autistic.

    David

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