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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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  • NAS11521 said:
    [quote]I worry that people will come away from the programme with a very one-sided view of what autism is, not helped when Uta said that Sarah's self-awareness of her own condition is 'rare' (maybe Uta would do well to come on this forum!). Many people with Asperger's are very self-aware, and this in itself can result in depression and high rates of anxiety. [/quote]

    awareness is rare? Many people who have not been diagnosed in childhood have had to learn to cope in the way Sarah has but the price of doing so is often stress, anxiety and depression.

    I think Uta might have meant more insight into the condition in oneself.  I agree with her that it is pretty rare, but I think many of us learn about ourselves and how our autism presents in ourselves along the way by reading about the experiences of others that match ours and explain things the same way as we experience them.  I test highly for alexithymia and knowing what I felt/did wasn't instinctive to me it was by doing a lot of reading and making sense of it.  So now I am more self-aware but it wasn't natural.  I think we are naturally good at knowing what stresses us and what we find difficult, but not necessarily the reasons for it, which I think is what Uta meant.

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  • NAS11521 said:
    [quote]I worry that people will come away from the programme with a very one-sided view of what autism is, not helped when Uta said that Sarah's self-awareness of her own condition is 'rare' (maybe Uta would do well to come on this forum!). Many people with Asperger's are very self-aware, and this in itself can result in depression and high rates of anxiety. [/quote]

    awareness is rare? Many people who have not been diagnosed in childhood have had to learn to cope in the way Sarah has but the price of doing so is often stress, anxiety and depression.

    I think Uta might have meant more insight into the condition in oneself.  I agree with her that it is pretty rare, but I think many of us learn about ourselves and how our autism presents in ourselves along the way by reading about the experiences of others that match ours and explain things the same way as we experience them.  I test highly for alexithymia and knowing what I felt/did wasn't instinctive to me it was by doing a lot of reading and making sense of it.  So now I am more self-aware but it wasn't natural.  I think we are naturally good at knowing what stresses us and what we find difficult, but not necessarily the reasons for it, which I think is what Uta meant.

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