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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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  • zem said:
    In terms of a "qualitative break", in the book of his that I've read Baron-Cohen does make it clear that a formal diagnosis requires both having the autistic traits and for them to be having a significant effect.

    Trouble is, the term significant (I think the word they use is "impairing") is subjective, and I do suspect some clinicians (and laymen) think it means obviously so.  In other words, if someone is passive and not acting out in anyway, but internalising tremendous anxiety and then home stimming and rocking, melting down or completing OCD rituals to externalise it in private, they wouldn't consider that impairing.  That is entirely wrong.  They are still autistic and autistic should equal diagnosis.  Or am I being literal here...Tongue Out

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  • zem said:
    In terms of a "qualitative break", in the book of his that I've read Baron-Cohen does make it clear that a formal diagnosis requires both having the autistic traits and for them to be having a significant effect.

    Trouble is, the term significant (I think the word they use is "impairing") is subjective, and I do suspect some clinicians (and laymen) think it means obviously so.  In other words, if someone is passive and not acting out in anyway, but internalising tremendous anxiety and then home stimming and rocking, melting down or completing OCD rituals to externalise it in private, they wouldn't consider that impairing.  That is entirely wrong.  They are still autistic and autistic should equal diagnosis.  Or am I being literal here...Tongue Out

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