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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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  • This is exactly how I feel Muckworm. I also detest with all my heart the assumption that people with AS  'suffer from' the condition. If someone with AS says 'I suffer from AS', then this to my mind is rather different because they are referring to themselves, and they might have a very hard life and define themselves as 'suffering' (even though I would disagree with the need to categorise yourself in such a negative manner). But what I think is offensive and unacceptable is when people say 'sufferers of AS' or 'people who suffer from AS'. This stereotypes and tars with one brush ALL people with AS. Personally, despite my problems, disabilities and anxieties (and far from optimal mental health), I do not 'suffer', I 'experience'. I experience mental distress from time to time, but all in all my life is not a bad one, and I enjoy life - I just wish I could enjoy it more, but I am battling my anxieties and I don't want to be defeatist. We change all the time. I had a great childhood, and was blithely ignorant of my differences until around the age of 14 - I did not 'suffer' at all up until this time. It is true that after the age of 14 my anxieties and OCD symptoms got worse, and eventually I had to seek help. But I am now gradually overcoming my anxieties. I don't think I will ever be anxiety free, and of course my AS will always be with me, but I don't 'suffer' on a continual basis. People without AS might 'suffer' from time to time too, but we don't define them as 'suffering'!!!

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  • This is exactly how I feel Muckworm. I also detest with all my heart the assumption that people with AS  'suffer from' the condition. If someone with AS says 'I suffer from AS', then this to my mind is rather different because they are referring to themselves, and they might have a very hard life and define themselves as 'suffering' (even though I would disagree with the need to categorise yourself in such a negative manner). But what I think is offensive and unacceptable is when people say 'sufferers of AS' or 'people who suffer from AS'. This stereotypes and tars with one brush ALL people with AS. Personally, despite my problems, disabilities and anxieties (and far from optimal mental health), I do not 'suffer', I 'experience'. I experience mental distress from time to time, but all in all my life is not a bad one, and I enjoy life - I just wish I could enjoy it more, but I am battling my anxieties and I don't want to be defeatist. We change all the time. I had a great childhood, and was blithely ignorant of my differences until around the age of 14 - I did not 'suffer' at all up until this time. It is true that after the age of 14 my anxieties and OCD symptoms got worse, and eventually I had to seek help. But I am now gradually overcoming my anxieties. I don't think I will ever be anxiety free, and of course my AS will always be with me, but I don't 'suffer' on a continual basis. People without AS might 'suffer' from time to time too, but we don't define them as 'suffering'!!!

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