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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 what simon baron cohen might have meant is that autism isnt so much this new thing, its a biological adaptation of something that exists

    i think its not that he means autism is less what it is , or nts are more autistic than they are, its that its like a heightned version of 'normal' 

    that most people do show some similar signs, ie need for routines, we all have that, the difference is in autism it can really affect the person to a life changing degree

    funnily enough his comment issomething my partner, our family and me have all said

    im only a bit way through his book on empathy but its fascianting 

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  • i think what simon baron cohen might have meant is that autism isnt so much this new thing, its a biological adaptation of something that exists

    i think its not that he means autism is less what it is , or nts are more autistic than they are, its that its like a heightned version of 'normal' 

    that most people do show some similar signs, ie need for routines, we all have that, the difference is in autism it can really affect the person to a life changing degree

    funnily enough his comment issomething my partner, our family and me have all said

    im only a bit way through his book on empathy but its fascianting 

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