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18 Jun 2015, 11:17 am



http://wrongplanet.net/video/steve-silb ... ry-autism/


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18 Jun 2015, 11:34 am

This was really interesting, thanks for sharing Alex. :D



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18 Jun 2015, 11:47 am

iliketrees wrote:
This was really interesting, thanks for sharing Alex. :D


his book should be amazing:
http://www.amazon.com/NeuroTribes-Legac ... 158333467X


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18 Jun 2015, 11:53 am

Is it the same book from autism talk TV 6 and 7 that he was only just starting in 2010? :P



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18 Jun 2015, 12:24 pm

Glad his research confirmed the impotence of Rain Man in the the history of Autism. The movie and the particularly the Rain Man stereotype are largely disliked/seen as a hindrance/something to distance ourselves from today. It was what it was.


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18 Jun 2015, 1:40 pm

ASPartOfMe wrote:
Glad his research confirmed the impotence of Rain Man in the the history of Autism. The movie and the particularly the Rain Man stereotype are largely disliked/seen as a hindrance/something to distance ourselves from today. It was what it was.

I see it as sort of a stepping stone along the path to better understanding. It was an important step for progress at the time, but you don't want to be stuck there. Sort of like a lot of comical, stereotyped depictions of homosexuals in sitcoms during the late 90's. They did a lot for exposing a lot of people to the idea of gays as real people in their lives, but it's good that (most) depictions have moved past it now. What was progressive at the time is now outdated. This is progress. Both the adoption and the abandonment of these depictions were good things.



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18 Jun 2015, 2:50 pm

I was just watching the speech and reading the article and references on Facebook last night. There's a lot of truth to the many things that were talked about in the speech, articles and references.


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18 Jun 2015, 7:58 pm

gamerdad wrote:
ASPartOfMe wrote:
Glad his research confirmed the impotence of Rain Man in the the history of Autism. The movie and the particularly the Rain Man stereotype are largely disliked/seen as a hindrance/something to distance ourselves from today. It was what it was.

I see it as sort of a stepping stone along the path to better understanding. It was an important step for progress at the time, but you don't want to be stuck there. Sort of like a lot of comical, stereotyped depictions of homosexuals in sitcoms during the late 90's. They did a lot for exposing a lot of people to the idea of gays as real people in their lives, but it's good that (most) depictions have moved past it now. What was progressive at the time is now outdated. This is progress. Both the adoption and the abandonment of these depictions were good things.


I think we have gone backwards in Autism portrayal in many ways since Rain Man's message of acceptance. Now it is the burden/disease or variation of the savant/genius Rain Main stereotype. And unlike Rain Man in most cases it is deemed unsaleable to mention they are Autistic apparently. An in the late 80's and the 90's when mass shootings stared becoming a thing the first thought of Autistics was not will this be linked to ASD. More knowledge and variation yes, progress no.


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