Autistics need intellectual stimulation not love and nuture

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I had lots of learning disabilies as a kid but perhaps I may not have been ready yet to learn those things or needed to be taught in a diffrent way and with my learning style and actualy be taught to learn, not taught to pass a test.

I guess i'm going to have to go with the research on this one. Organisations that offer active reward and recognition programs and encourage respect and appreciation experience higher engagement scores and greater staff and customer satisfaction scores too. Essentially, they perform better, and it's the 'little' things that count.

Whether any attempt to offer love, nuture and appreciation is seen as 'fake' or perceived as pointless or condescending really is subjective and the opinion of the individual. If they, or a parent, feels they can be motivated better in a different way, then by all means have that conversation. I try to at least give respect for the fact they are trying to be loving, nuturing and show appreciation. It must hurt when it gets thrown back in their face.

I hated being in special ed, I was definitely higher functioning than most kids there. Some of them could not dress themselves. I have nothing against those kids, but I was able to do more and my primary issues were social issues, not intellectual ones. So I do believe this system needs to change.

I agree, my child has Aspergers and the choices offered were either fail in mainstream education or attend special education. However he is very high functioning and without bragging, light years ahead of the special education cohort. It wouldn't be fair on my child or the other kids. So we home educate.

I sure as heck craved intellectual stimulation every minute of every hour of every day growing up. Even now in my early forties I still can't seem to get enough intellectual stimulation. I'm constantly reading, constantly analyzing and constantly reaching out and questioning the world around me in very intricate and intimate ways.

I. Cannot. Get. Enough.

Getting truthful information about any given topic almost gives a dopamine release - it's just that bad. Or good, depending on how you look at it.

That is why my chosen profession was a Journalist and I did extremely well at it for a few years but I had to give it up due to the lack of a living wage that journalists get paid and I couldn't pay down my debts from college which I'm still working on doing. So at the moment I'm sitting in a holding pattern and driving a forklift because believe it or not, driving a forklift pays you more than a journalist does in most of the world.

Back to the topic at hand, love and nurturing would have been nice if I had known it was sincere and guilt free but my parents had no idea how to do that so I was deprived of that nurturing that I needed but not as much as intellectual stimulation.

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*** High Functioning Autism - Asperger's Syndrome ***

ADHD, OCD, and PTSD.

Keep calm and stim away.