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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Treatment of autistics in the UK vs. the US. |
| carlos55 |
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Posted: 25 Feb 2020, 4:01 pm
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| I have read English musicians discussing this. They say as soon as you are successful British audiences are looking to take you down while America is hard to break into but once they are into you it is for life. Yes that's true too, the media here build people up then knock them down. Its part of U... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Media/pop culture Autism attitudes vs lived experience |
| carlos55 |
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Posted: 25 Feb 2020, 3:28 pm
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Replies: 41
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| I know what you are saying and I agree as we have already seen its effects. Where they ignore the more severe case of ASD because it's easier to work with the less severe, and they just treat them like they dont have problems in comparison. Everything becomes twisted because of it. I had many argum... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Media/pop culture Autism attitudes vs lived experience |
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Posted: 25 Feb 2020, 11:31 am
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| I never said or I implied there was a pure benevolent autism?? I ont understand your post. Shats wrong with seeking enough acocommodations that a kind happy child isnt treated like an animal for example as mine has been .. for convenience of supposed educators and since he is non verbal he cant com... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Treatment of autistics in the UK vs. the US. |
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Posted: 24 Feb 2020, 2:16 pm
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| You expanded upon my mention of austerities effects. As for comparing ABA’s results between the two countries I would think you would have to wait 20 or 30 years to see how people are in adulthood. There are hundreds if not thousands of peer reviewed studies saying that ABA “works” in mitigating un... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Media/pop culture Autism attitudes vs lived experience |
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Posted: 24 Feb 2020, 1:49 pm
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| Ok thanks Like how there Is an overlap of things eg like more epilepsy or hypotonia or EDS in asd than non asd, but that doesnt mean they sre one and the same thing, they sre separate conditions thst overlap perhaps due to similar causes. Is what That might be. Like epilepsy obv has to be managed w... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Treatment of autistics in the UK vs. the US. |
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Posted: 24 Feb 2020, 9:13 am
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| Im from the UK and ABA does not exist here, outside the odd few private practices of which theres not many. In fact a simple way to measure autism outcomes after ABA would be to maybe to compare UK and US kids? We have a national health service which is free which is great and i wouldnt change that,... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Media/pop culture Autism attitudes vs lived experience |
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Posted: 23 Feb 2020, 1:50 pm
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| The problem is many particularly advocates want to over complicate things, it’s really not that hard to navigate the issue. Autism is a medical disorder, not an identity / different way of being or type of left handedness as I heard somewhere. Autism is a whole body disorder that originates from the... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Improvement of Autism with age |
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Posted: 20 Feb 2020, 4:53 am
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Replies: 50
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| I went through a stable patch 25-40 then steadily got worse. Being older social opportunities outside normal workday become less as old friends go their seperate ways. Like a muscle that doesnt get used as often social skills start to get weaker and masking skills become less. I understand those wit... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Media/pop culture Autism attitudes vs lived experience |
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Posted: 19 Feb 2020, 3:53 pm
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| It's called virtue signaling. Very true, NT`s use this for popularity boosting. You can see this throughout the celebrity world, not just ND obviously but everything, racism, global warming, anti trump, LGBT, feminist issues etc... Celebrities need popularity to survive and make a living. Unpopular... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: For the Aspies who can work and/or are highly educated |
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Posted: 19 Feb 2020, 1:46 pm
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Replies: 80
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| I find many non customer facing white collar jobs have roles that work a bit like a computer program i.e if this happens do this, if it states A go to B then tick C and so on. Making detailed quality notes when training really goes a long way. In fact managers have commented how good mine are and us... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: For the Aspies who can work and/or are highly educated |
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Posted: 19 Feb 2020, 11:11 am
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| As an aspie who works as an office clerk The single most vital trait needed for employment is probably executive function. The ability to see a task through from beginning to end in a timley manner without making mistakes. No employer would hire someone who cannot do that as a minimum. Ive seen thos... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Gut Bacteria and Autism Development |
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Posted: 18 Feb 2020, 8:59 am
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Replies: 4
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Ive read this before, not sure the truth of this but does need more investigation.
This video goes into this. Not saying i agree with everything as i simply dont know but liked thd detailed explanation and graphics presented:-
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C6RxH4qQ4cw |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you find innocence to be the most lovable quality |
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Posted: 18 Feb 2020, 8:52 am
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| Innocence tends to be attractive in women alot of the time for straight men. But a big turn off romantically for women in men unfortunatly. All the research shows women prefer a man that can take care of himself, which is why we autistics have such a harder time dating in general. Unfortunatly ASD d... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Neurodiversity and Psychiatric Validity |
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Posted: 17 Feb 2020, 9:13 am
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Replies: 11
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| Most advocates of the neurodiversity paradigm don't totally reject the medical model for every aspect of mental/neurological disability. Only the most extreme doctrinaire ones go that far. Alas, this extreme position has been all too commonly used as a straw man to attack the neurodiversity idea in... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: At times I dislike being Autistic |
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Posted: 14 Feb 2020, 8:54 am
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Replies: 6
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| Someone made an interesting post on here about eye contact, cant remember who it was its on my comments. Basically he started to wear dark sunglasses glasses and found he was able to relax more in speaking to people, it reduced alot of the stress associated with face to face contact. He found NTs st... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Disabled or different..??? |
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Posted: 13 Feb 2020, 10:13 pm
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Replies: 43
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| ASD is a spectrum disorder where outcome ranges from invisible "normal life" to catastrophic. Everyone with ASD falls somewhere in the range, some are extreamly disabled some are bardly distinguishable from NT. I wouldnt be too concerned with words like "different" or "speci... |
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