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Radio 4 Out of the Ordinary

DaisyGirl

I have just heard this programme on BBC iplayer. It was broadcast on Monday 3rd march 2014 at 11am.

I can't belive what I was hearing. According to the presenter, who seems to have absolutely no understanding of Asperger's/autism, we can be "trained" out of our Asperger's behaviour and then just not be Aspie anymore. We're all just introverted and selfish.

He doesn't seem to realise that those of us with a diagnosis of Asperger's meet the diagnostic criteria for autism, we just didn't have language delay (and some with the Aspie diagnosis did have language delay).

Awful.

Just to add, he also doesn;t understand that Asperger's is not and has never been a mental illness, it is a developmental disorder, but because of the way medicine is organised there is no other branch to deal with the diagnoses than psychiatry. 

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  • And I agree completely DaisyGirl. Ignorant members of the public may well get the wrong idea from this programme and assume that Asperger's is not a disabling condition that negatively affects a person's life-chances, but simply an extreme form of introversion. They might think that it mainly or only occurs in men, and that it is simply because more pressure is put on men these days to perform emotionally. And it is really not helpful for a programme to uncritically suggest that Hitler, Darwin etc. had Asperger's, when there is no evidence to suggest this. I don't think you could call Dawin or Hitler disabled, although Darwin was certainly obsessive and prone to health anxiety, while Hitler was a psychologically disturbed psychopath.

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  • And I agree completely DaisyGirl. Ignorant members of the public may well get the wrong idea from this programme and assume that Asperger's is not a disabling condition that negatively affects a person's life-chances, but simply an extreme form of introversion. They might think that it mainly or only occurs in men, and that it is simply because more pressure is put on men these days to perform emotionally. And it is really not helpful for a programme to uncritically suggest that Hitler, Darwin etc. had Asperger's, when there is no evidence to suggest this. I don't think you could call Dawin or Hitler disabled, although Darwin was certainly obsessive and prone to health anxiety, while Hitler was a psychologically disturbed psychopath.

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