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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. 

Parents

  • I heard the program too. It did seem very unbalanced in its agaenda - it certainly shone a great deal of doubt on the diagnosis of Aspergers.

    It seemed a pretty poor quality program. I think they just interviewed people that suited their agenda. The problem is that listeners may not question the validity and integrity of the program.

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  • I heard the program too. It did seem very unbalanced in its agaenda - it certainly shone a great deal of doubt on the diagnosis of Aspergers.

    It seemed a pretty poor quality program. I think they just interviewed people that suited their agenda. The problem is that listeners may not question the validity and integrity of the program.

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