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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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  • Yes I wrote that in Asperger United that we should not Sterotype Autistic people and NTS.

    I think Simon Baron Cohen would agree that we are all unique.

    I do not think we have mnd blindness in the same way that blind people cannot see.

     

    Your point about employment.

    The thing which  held me back when I was younger was not having English O Level as well as having Asperger Syndrome.  I have 6 O Levels and 2 A Levels. but I was turned down for many jobs because of English.

    Asperger Syndrome held me back as well.

    The Tax Office dismissed me for being too slow and the  unofficial reason was that I had odd habits.

    I remember watching a film when it was the father of the girl friend who landed in jail for fraud and the Autistic person did not land in jail although he had many out bursts.

    The Father was an accountant and so called NT.

    I wish we could do a film of a badly behaved person and say that person is so called NT.  We could also have a film of a well behaved person who is Autistic.

    David

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  • Yes I wrote that in Asperger United that we should not Sterotype Autistic people and NTS.

    I think Simon Baron Cohen would agree that we are all unique.

    I do not think we have mnd blindness in the same way that blind people cannot see.

     

    Your point about employment.

    The thing which  held me back when I was younger was not having English O Level as well as having Asperger Syndrome.  I have 6 O Levels and 2 A Levels. but I was turned down for many jobs because of English.

    Asperger Syndrome held me back as well.

    The Tax Office dismissed me for being too slow and the  unofficial reason was that I had odd habits.

    I remember watching a film when it was the father of the girl friend who landed in jail for fraud and the Autistic person did not land in jail although he had many out bursts.

    The Father was an accountant and so called NT.

    I wish we could do a film of a badly behaved person and say that person is so called NT.  We could also have a film of a well behaved person who is Autistic.

    David

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