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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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  • David said:

    Why does everyone disagree with Simon Baron Cohen.?

    I have told the NAS that one can have severe communication problems without beng

    Autistic.  For example being deaf or blind can affect communication.  That is in connection with the Leaflet What is Asperger Syndrome.   That leaflet makes it out to be them and us.  There really is not that much difference between someone with Asperger Syndrome and a so called NT.

    The NAS believe that by exagerating the difference they explain Asperger Syndrome to those who have not got it.

    David

    David

    they dont, i think the man knows what hes talking about

    but i disagree with you on your view theres really no difference, thats not what he is saying either, hes saying there is a difference but its not a new difference, as i said before, its heightened

    if you feel nas are exagerating a difference maybe you need to explain why, because autism itself kinda disagrees as the symptoms are there, they arent exagerated, and those are what we all have to live with

    nas are not saying there is no non autistic problems, they are saying that autistic problems have specific issues, you cant lump all problems together just because they have somilar symptoms

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  • David said:

    Why does everyone disagree with Simon Baron Cohen.?

    I have told the NAS that one can have severe communication problems without beng

    Autistic.  For example being deaf or blind can affect communication.  That is in connection with the Leaflet What is Asperger Syndrome.   That leaflet makes it out to be them and us.  There really is not that much difference between someone with Asperger Syndrome and a so called NT.

    The NAS believe that by exagerating the difference they explain Asperger Syndrome to those who have not got it.

    David

    David

    they dont, i think the man knows what hes talking about

    but i disagree with you on your view theres really no difference, thats not what he is saying either, hes saying there is a difference but its not a new difference, as i said before, its heightened

    if you feel nas are exagerating a difference maybe you need to explain why, because autism itself kinda disagrees as the symptoms are there, they arent exagerated, and those are what we all have to live with

    nas are not saying there is no non autistic problems, they are saying that autistic problems have specific issues, you cant lump all problems together just because they have somilar symptoms

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