washington post article mentions wrong planet

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an article on the front page of the washington post tomorrow will mention wrongplanet. here's an online copy:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 01785.html

digg it: http://digg.com/health/Gifted_Autistic_Or_Just_Quirky

netscape it: http://health.netscape.com/story/2007/0 ... ust-quirky

Last edited by alex on 27 Feb 2007, 8:52 am, edited 1 time in total.

Way to go!! !

Tim

thanks. hopefully this will spread the word even more!

Is the Washington Post fairly mainstream? It's a really good article. I especially appreciated Siedel's contribution.

Silly reporter. It's not just for teens. And what about the other founder?

Very good article.

So awesome Alex.

Ok, I read the article, 'cause Alex will give me hell if I don't. And I didin't like it. I am sick to death of lables. They are not useful. The more I think about it, the more I think Asperger was wrong. I mean, a couple of researchers just decided the Freud was wrong about repression, which has broad implications across the whole field of psychiatry. So why can't Asperger have been wrong? Because that would screw up everything, all our neat labels and categories, and drugs, and someone might just have to take a long hard look at this disorder and figure out something scientific, and before anyone thinks I'm saying cure, let me make it very clear that I'm not! I don't think there is anything to cure, except maybe society at large.

I'm just sick of all the experts. I think they're way off base.

Beentheredonethat

Labels don't lead to medications nor cures in my household. They do lead to a more defined explanation of our traits and how to teach people who have trouble learning like NTs.
Like is said in the article, it's not the label itself that does any damage but what people do with those labels.

The only thing I like better than labels is drugs and labels.

interesting

No, it's just some underground, radical hippie newsrag that nobody reads except people who are mad at their parents.

Non-sarcastic reply: It's as mainstream as you'll get with a newspaper.

I found the article to be disorganized, vague, and basically uninformative. Also, the author didn't bother to research as well as she/he could have, e.g., Wrong Planet is not a "teen site," although there are specific areas just for teens. It appears as if the author was spouting conjecture willy-nilly, with no clear objective.

I usually enjoy The Washington Post, but they failed miserably with this shoddy attempt at "informing the public." I mean, what exactly was the point here?

he isn't a teen anymore.

if you want you can digg it or netscape it:

http://digg.com/health/Gifted_Autistic_Or_Just_Quirky

http://health.netscape.com/story/2007/0 ... ust-quirky

It's very mainstream. For us Dino Aspies, it's the newspaper that broke the Watergate Scandal in the 1970's that brought down Richard Nixon's presidency. That is what the newspaper is best known for in the general public.

Washington Post is the paper I grew up on... It's certainly the most well-respected United States newspaper, although some may argue the New York Times is...