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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Heterogeneity of ASD |
| carlos55 |
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Posted: 16 Oct 2020, 5:48 am
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| What is the purpose of making such a point, though? Who is creating or trying to create organizations or movements that treat all autistic people the same? Well Neurodiversity movement & ASAN for a start. They use "we" alot in respect to anti cure & potential biological treatments... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The site "The Neurotypical". What do you think? |
| carlos55 |
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Posted: 15 Oct 2020, 2:15 pm
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Where does the internet get these hate names from Cassandra or Karen? why are they always middle class women`s names.
Why not a trailer park name or man`s name? |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Heterogeneity of ASD |
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Posted: 15 Oct 2020, 2:09 pm
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| I think what whale_tuune means is that you can’t put all autistic people on the same page in terms of needs which makes a one size fits all approach impossible. What is the purpose of making such a point, though? Who is creating or trying to create organizations or movements that treat all autistic... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Mum outraged autism being referred to as an acquired taste |
| carlos55 |
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Posted: 15 Oct 2020, 7:33 am
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I would be very suspicious of Julian Assange diagnosis.
Nothing against the man but he had no issues before, suddenly when he’s facing 100 years in prison he claims he’s autistic and vulnerable.
I don’t think it would be all that difficult for him to fake symptoms to a psychiatrist. |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Heterogeneity of ASD |
| carlos55 |
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Posted: 15 Oct 2020, 3:10 am
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| it will be practically impossible to organize any medical, philanthropic, or social movement to address "Autistic people's" problems. That's obviously false since such organizations currently exist. You may not know what you are talking about when you use the term "autistic people.&q... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: A Big Concern. |
| carlos55 |
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Posted: 14 Oct 2020, 7:22 am
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Unless your a danger to yourself or others they cannot force medication on you.
Having said that in the UK there have been cases of teenage autistic kids having meltdowns police are called, kids taken to mental health units and kept for years.
A kind of return to the old asylum system. |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Autism Prevention- closer than we may think? |
| carlos55 |
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Posted: 14 Oct 2020, 6:16 am
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Replies: 24
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| Was watching this YouTube video by Simon Baron Cohen, in regards to extreme male brain theory. He explains how science has struggled to find an autism gene in the majority of cases, leaving around 70% of ASD cases unexplained by just genetics alone. In it he provides very compelling evidence that “n... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What Is The Difference Between HFA and Aspergers? |
| carlos55 |
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Posted: 13 Oct 2020, 2:38 pm
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Replies: 28
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| I am unsure how you can state a diagnosis is overused, unless you have some real data on that. Perhaps we are simply finding people with these conditions. I guess I find the idea that there are too many people with a diagnosis is very dismissive of those being diagnosed. Over used by parents and so... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What Is The Difference Between HFA and Aspergers? |
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Posted: 13 Oct 2020, 6:33 am
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| Aspergers like anything is overused these days. One has to go back to the 40’s to see what Mr H.A was referring to when he was describing these children. Children who were invisible to casual observers until they talk in a way that autistic children are not. Children with a normal or high intelligen... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: If a cure was proposed, would you try it? |
| carlos55 |
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Posted: 09 Oct 2020, 4:36 am
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| The fact that I have had some good brain periods in my life even though few and far between, makes me confident that there is some biological way to make this happen all the time that doesn’t involve zoning out on sledgehammer drugs. They just need to unlock the secrets of our neuro / biological pat... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: A Severely Autistic Man Faces Deportation |
| carlos55 |
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Posted: 07 Oct 2020, 7:26 am
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Replies: 13
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| I’m surprised by this 5 years for steeling a phone! We have quite soft sentences in the UK compared to US. Unless violence is used it’s unlikely such a crime would get you anything over a suspended sentence or a few months jail time at most. I think there is more to it or miss reported. Dudley i... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: A Severely Autistic Man Faces Deportation |
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Posted: 06 Oct 2020, 7:32 am
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I’m surprised by this 5 years for steeling a phone!
We have quite soft sentences in the UK compared to US.
Unless violence is used it’s unlikely such a crime would get you anything over a suspended sentence or a few months jail time at most.
I think there is more to it or miss reported. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Aspie vs NT psychopath! |
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Posted: 04 Oct 2020, 4:21 pm
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| Real psychopaths there are two types I think I’ve met both (not just bullies) Violent types: have a kind of vortex Presence around them difficult to explain you just feel that person is Physically dangerous, prob includes gangsters, terrorists. Magnetic type: are very NT and most people are attracte... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: "Losing" Autism diagnoses/"Recovering" from autism |
| carlos55 |
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Posted: 03 Oct 2020, 8:53 am
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Replies: 34
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| For me a 27 year delay in getting a dx and competent psychiatric help and support(been receiving MH treatment since late 1973), has meant any hope of fulfilling any potential I might have had has been totally destroyed. It's now more about maintaining what for many of the high flying types here wou... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: "Losing" Autism diagnoses/"Recovering" from autism |
| carlos55 |
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Posted: 03 Oct 2020, 5:33 am
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Many kids diagnosed today are below boarderline ASD.
They fall just below the threshold but are labelled ASD anyway so they get the extra help, that may explain things too.
Autism in kids is a CARS score, 30 & above is autism, 37 & above is severe autism. |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Heterogeneity of ASD |
| carlos55 |
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Posted: 02 Oct 2020, 8:06 am
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Replies: 80
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| We have to distinguish between behaviors which are kinetic for which there is unconscious reactions for and just simple identity labels like black , gay etc... We can’t expect strangers to ignore behaviors any more than we can expect the woman to ignore the creepy guy following her or two men walkin... |
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