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My university project

Armitage2012

Hello my name is ella armitage

i work with the camden society where i support autistic children and adults. i also am studying Theatre Arts at Middlesex university and i am producing and performing a solo performance on autism where i am questioning the audience on whether they think autism is an ability or disability?this performance will be my last big performance of my thrid year.  i would appreciate it if you are able to help me in any way. i will also be using your organastion as a part of my reserach.

Ella

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  • May I add that the representation of autism is complex and savantism only concerns a minority. Most autistic individuals are not extra-special, we are simply normal human beings who happen to also have difficulties that can be disabling. Some of us also have talents, but are they really any different to the talents that people without ASD can have? True savantism - super-human abilities in maths or art - is very, very rare, but always occurs with severe disability. Other forms of so called giftedness can occur with autiism, but to reiterate, they can also occur in the non-autistic population too - many people are talented artists, composers etc, with or without autism.

    I have asperger's, have been to uni, got a degree, but so what!. I am no more intelligent than anyone else who has been academically successful, it just so happens that I also find other areas very difficult. I am concerned that we could get a distorted picture of what ASD is if savantism is taken to be the norm. Most of us are not  like Rainman.

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  • May I add that the representation of autism is complex and savantism only concerns a minority. Most autistic individuals are not extra-special, we are simply normal human beings who happen to also have difficulties that can be disabling. Some of us also have talents, but are they really any different to the talents that people without ASD can have? True savantism - super-human abilities in maths or art - is very, very rare, but always occurs with severe disability. Other forms of so called giftedness can occur with autiism, but to reiterate, they can also occur in the non-autistic population too - many people are talented artists, composers etc, with or without autism.

    I have asperger's, have been to uni, got a degree, but so what!. I am no more intelligent than anyone else who has been academically successful, it just so happens that I also find other areas very difficult. I am concerned that we could get a distorted picture of what ASD is if savantism is taken to be the norm. Most of us are not  like Rainman.

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