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19 Aug 2008, 11:50 pm

philosopherBoi wrote:
People with autism are mute.


And conversely, people who are mute/don't talk, etc are (always) autistic is also a myth.
That's what got me labeled and treated in ways I should have not been treated.


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20 Aug 2008, 8:45 am

hadapurpura wrote:
Autistic (and more specifically, Aspie) people don't read fiction because The Curious Incident of the Dog at Midnight says so.


Aspies can't tell lies, because it says so in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

(I actually thought that was an okay book - the problem is that people think all Apies are the same, not that he wasn't realistic. Nearly everyone read it where I live and loads of people said "You're just like the main character! Do you have Asperger's?" because I am quite like him and I don't like yellow)



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20 Aug 2008, 8:49 am

That book is not a bad work of fiction but it has been badly researched and gives people the wrong idea of what AS is.



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20 Aug 2008, 11:18 pm

corroonb wrote:
That book is not a bad work of fiction but it has been badly researched and gives people the wrong idea of what AS is.


I think of it more as a good book about an specific person with Asperger's that can give a person an "idea" of how a person with Asperger's may be, but unfortunately people have taken it as the Asperger's Bible, so if Christopher doesn't like yellow and brown, no aspie can like yellow and brown (which would be like saying all blonds are exactly the same, or all people react exactly the same to the flu).