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Uta Frith on Radio 3 (Autism Awareness Day)

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Just found out that the development psychologist with views on autism and dyslexia, Professor Uta Frith, is being interviewed every morning this week, at about 10.30 am, on BBC Radio 3, with her choices of music. Its a kind of up-market Desert Island Discs.

Don't know how many if any are regular Radio 3 listeners, but it is interesting that BBC have made the gesture around Autism Awareness Day 2nd April, of bringing on a psychologist interested in autism.

Its an opportunity to get some insight into one of the psychologists who profess to know all about us.

But also maybe NAS ought to have spotted this gesture being made.

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  • I fundamentally disagree with Cohen's assertion that the only difference between people with autism and those without the condition is the number of autism traits, and that we are all on the same continuum. I do think there is a 'qualitatitive break', as opposed to a simple 'matter of degree'. It is true that the traits of autism can occur in the wider public, but they are not necessarily there because of the same reasons or causes. A cough can be a symptom of a cold, influenza, or cancer, the same symptom but caused by a very different agent. I am not a Scientist, and of course I do not have the study resources that Cohen has at his disposal, but I am concerned that the continuum idea could trivialise and relativise what is a serious and often disabling condition.

    I understand that autism is a spectrum, and that the non  autistic autistic brothers and sisters of those affected can show early markers of the condition in brain scans, yet not go on to develop the full blown condition. Autism is clearly genetic, and more research needs to be done on the differences between those with the full blown condition and those who are sub threshold and do not warrant a diagnosis.

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  • I fundamentally disagree with Cohen's assertion that the only difference between people with autism and those without the condition is the number of autism traits, and that we are all on the same continuum. I do think there is a 'qualitatitive break', as opposed to a simple 'matter of degree'. It is true that the traits of autism can occur in the wider public, but they are not necessarily there because of the same reasons or causes. A cough can be a symptom of a cold, influenza, or cancer, the same symptom but caused by a very different agent. I am not a Scientist, and of course I do not have the study resources that Cohen has at his disposal, but I am concerned that the continuum idea could trivialise and relativise what is a serious and often disabling condition.

    I understand that autism is a spectrum, and that the non  autistic autistic brothers and sisters of those affected can show early markers of the condition in brain scans, yet not go on to develop the full blown condition. Autism is clearly genetic, and more research needs to be done on the differences between those with the full blown condition and those who are sub threshold and do not warrant a diagnosis.

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