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 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Aspergers, ASD and Social and Criminal Sanctioning

Piran
Posted: 24 Feb 2009, 2:30 am 

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Thanks for your comments so far.

I am travelling at the moment and will respond when I return home.

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Aspergers, ASD and Social and Criminal Sanctioning

Piran
Posted: 23 Feb 2009, 9:46 am 

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ToughDiamond wrote:
Piran wrote:
Have you been reading my thesis. :) :oops:

You mean you agree with me? 8O


Yes.

I am working on a dterministic approach to response to deviancy.

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Aspergers, ASD and Social and Criminal Sanctioning

Piran
Posted: 23 Feb 2009, 8:11 am 

Replies: 19
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I think the problem is that the courts are still obsessed with finding out whether a person did a thing "knowingly and with malice aforethought" or not. That's fine for clear-cut cases, but much of the time it's not possible to know quite what was going on in the head of the accused. Even the accus...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Aspergers, ASD and Social and Criminal Sanctioning

Piran
 Post subject: Re: No way
Posted: 23 Feb 2009, 6:41 am 

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Autism maybe, but Asperger's doesn't make people stupid. We have I.Q.'s in the normal range which means we know right from wrong and legal from illegal. Being unable to read body language and not having empathy will give us a lifetime of awkward moments, but awkward isn't criminal. If people are us...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Do Aspies have a different Theory of Mind?

Piran
Posted: 23 Feb 2009, 3:23 am 

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Supposedly, we don't have a theory of mind when we're young. The term "theory of mind" refers to the understanding that other people have minds that are different from our own. We don't have a very good one when we're young. We develop a theory of mind as we get older, but we process it in a differ...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Aspergers, ASD and Social and Criminal Sanctioning

Piran
Posted: 23 Feb 2009, 3:17 am 

Replies: 19
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I am currently working on a presentation on societal reaction to criminality and sub-criminal rule breaking in society. This covers all classes of people whether neurotypical, mentally disordered, Aspergers, ASD, culturally differentiated etc. I am particularly interested in borderline cases. Societ...
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