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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Who hijacked the neurodiversity definition and why? |
| carlos55 |
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Posted: 22 Feb 2021, 7:51 am
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Replies: 67
Views: 2,884
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| I'm getting increasingly irritated by people that misunderstand what neurodiversity was originally meant to be, and that have hijacked the terms so that neurodiversity today seems to be anything that differs from the NT norm, rather than the traits related to the broader autistic phenotype and rela... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: ‘Music’ film with nonverbal autistic lead, directed by Sia |
| carlos55 |
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Posted: 21 Feb 2021, 9:01 am
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Replies: 134
Views: 19,730
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| I don't have a personal definition. It is a simple question. What is exclusionary in the ND movement? Nothing I have read shows it is. I have, however, seen a great deal of misrepresentation of the movement, and, oddly enough, from inside the community. But that tends to be based in anecdote and op... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: ‘Music’ film with nonverbal autistic lead, directed by Sia |
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Posted: 19 Feb 2021, 5:15 am
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Replies: 134
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| She's been blasted by the Australian media for casting an NT as a non-verbal autistic girl. Funny nobody had a problem with casting NTs for "Temple", "The Accountant" and an NT to play the "Good Doctor" where all three characters were depicted by NTs playing characters... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What causes autism |
| carlos55 |
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Posted: 18 Feb 2021, 3:33 pm
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Replies: 28
Views: 965
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| There are probably many types of autism. The brain has a limited no of ways to express that something is not working properly, so that`s possibly why there`s the overlap in symptoms. |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: BBC Documentary on celebrity autism family life |
| carlos55 |
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Posted: 18 Feb 2021, 3:50 am
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Replies: 4
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| Most people in the UK know of these two celebs he hosts the one of the most popular tv shows “Top Gear” and his wife hosts a well known daytime show called “loose women” aimed at homemaking women who for whatever reason don’t choose to work. Together they probably bring in a large chunk of the UK vi... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Problems with "cure" idea from the scientists' POV |
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Posted: 14 Feb 2021, 1:27 pm
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Replies: 35
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| The mRNA vaccines are a new technology that does not use the traditional method of introducing a dead or harmless part of a virus to create immunity so it’s not so easy to say this is just another vaccine like all the others. No human has taken an mRNA vaccine until recently so again long-term affec... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Problems with "cure" idea from the scientists' POV |
| carlos55 |
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Posted: 13 Feb 2021, 8:21 pm
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Replies: 35
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| I’m not anti vax or against the vaccine altogether. If someone has serious health issues or is elderly the benefit/ risk ratio is such that taking the vaccine is probably the best choice. But you still haven’t answered the question why would those who are vaccinated and “protected” be concerned abou... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Problems with "cure" idea from the scientists' POV |
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Posted: 13 Feb 2021, 3:32 pm
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Replies: 35
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| If I was an ND advocate I would be more interested in the drift to the idea of mandatory vaccines and the loss of sovereignty over health choices. Something im very much against, not because im anti vax but the idea of forcing people to take anything is wrong. Even if not accepting the treatment pu... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: ‘Music’ film with nonverbal autistic lead, directed by Sia |
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Posted: 12 Feb 2021, 3:39 pm
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Replies: 134
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| Regardless of the controversy, the movie has been panned. A bit of drama with wooden dialogue and a bunch of music videos thrown in. It seems neither fish nor fowl. I guess it will not join Shawshank Redemption as a blockbuster debut. Do musicals ever do well at the box office? I think they are rea... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: "The Autisms" |
| carlos55 |
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Posted: 09 Feb 2021, 3:01 am
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Replies: 9
Views: 613
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| To understand how autism entered the medical books you have to understand two things: 1. When Autism was first identified in the 1940’s the world was a different place. Computers were limited crude number crunchers and the size of a room, planes had propellers and you had steam trains. Biological Br... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: The “Autism Industrial Complex" |
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Posted: 08 Feb 2021, 3:14 pm
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Replies: 4
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| I'm not sure autism is any more an industry than medicine is in general It’s all based on problem / solution dynamics However, one criticism at big pharma is they prefer creating "customers" rather than curing anyone. The opioid scandal comes to mind I think in the US the 3rd biggest kill... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Problems with "cure" idea from the scientists' POV |
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Posted: 31 Jan 2021, 3:17 pm
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Replies: 35
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| The following article is somewhat old news, but contains a good summary of why -- from the viewpoint of the relevant scientists -- there is now much less of a focus on searching for a "cure" than there was a decade or two ago. Why the focus of autism research is shifting away from searchi... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: What's your opinion on Simon Baron-Cohen and his ideas? |
| carlos55 |
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Posted: 29 Jan 2021, 3:22 pm
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Replies: 29
Views: 1,508
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| but my main issue with the diagnostic process is that as long as autism is defined by deficits (theory of mind, empathy etc...) people are going to be missed. Any positive autism traits also exist in the NT population. Its the deficits that cause it to be a disorder. Otherwise the world wouldn`t ha... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: ‘Music’ film with nonverbal autistic lead, directed by Sia |
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Posted: 27 Jan 2021, 4:09 am
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Replies: 134
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| Well, this is not a very kind review: Sia's film Music misrepresents Autistic people. It could also do us damage : This article again typifies the ableism among those in Neurodiversity. She hides her real reasons for disliking it behind against stereotyping autistic people by showing severe autism,... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Can Autism Be The Cause Of Ones Sexual Preferences? |
| carlos55 |
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Posted: 26 Jan 2021, 8:33 am
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Replies: 49
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| I suppose there is another aspect to this question, how many autistic men actually have had romantic/ sexual experiences? Many of us die virgins But onto your main point in the UK they aired on tv a documentary called “my gay dog” a couple of years back where they explored homosexuality in the anima... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: What's your opinion on Simon Baron-Cohen and his ideas? |
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Posted: 17 Jan 2021, 3:04 pm
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Replies: 29
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| Simon Baron Cohen is not a scientist but a psychologist (Psychology is not classed as a hard science by the way). So, his ideas of extreme male brain theory are psychological in nature, rather than neuroscience. |
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