Fantastic Article about Autism and Astrology!

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This is all very interesting!! Thanks for posting this alba. I was born during a time when Saturn and Uranus squared one another (Saturn in Cancer, Uranus in Libra)... anyway, as far as the mutable type, I would think that those with ADHD would have a large amount of the mutable quality. Out of interest what does the book say about those who have a large amount of cardinal and fixed? My son and I have more of the cardinal quality (fixed and mutable for us is pretty much even). My daughter has ADHD and mostly mutable.

discovered a great website
www.neurodiversity.com/positive.html

gives around 85 links for a positive approach to autism
.....for instance this: stimming. lots of autistics say it's a calming thing and helps them 'synchronize with the sensory input all around them'.
.....that idea of stimming explains why i always found it calmed me to watch young autistic children flapping their hands and spinning plates...and that was decades before i knew i was aspie.


i've just begun research on the history of autism and so much of this is speculation.... based on the aspect list.... btw the aspect list is compiled only from exact to the minute aspects between saturn and uranus.


the following needs confirmation:

from 1942 to 1965 very little was known about autism, it was most likely considered a mental illness and disease causing both physical and mental impairment. it was probably also seen as inseparable from mental retardation. when exactly the concept of autistic savant, as well as Aspergers, developed may have indicated a major breakthrough. although not necessarily until more of the puzzle pieces of autism were brought together. diagnosticians often mistook autism for schizophrenia. by the time awareness of ADD and ADHD emerged, diagnosticians also confused it with the autism spectrum. apparently some experts believe autism is closely related to both schizophrenia and ADD/ADHD, and while differentiable from them...is often difficult to diagnose.

from 1965 to 1975 negative views of autism probably began to take hold and become firmly entrenched. by 1975 autism was in its dark ages, looking at the astrological aspects. it was a battle and an ordeal to make the transition from 1975 to 2002-03 as theories and public attitudes toward autism gradually shifted into neutral, occasionally daring toward the slightly positive.

in 1975 the Dark Ages of Autism may have begun. negative stance toward autism had probably been steadily building since the 1940s and by 1975 the shackles were on. those shackles weren't officially pried off until 1998 when the term neurodiversity was coined by Australian disability activist Judy Singer. the Dark Ages of Autism lasted approximately mid-1970s to mid-1990s, perhaps the equivalent of a generation 20 years. estimating we started to finally see the light at the end of the tunnel a few years prior to 1998. by as early as the mid-80s there may already have been greater public receptivity to viewing autism with a more neutral or positive attitude. but it was most likely socially unacceptable to do so until the 90s. so prior to the 90s extremely negative views of autism were prevalent.

in 2002-03, all bets were off on trashing the autism spectrum while activists began in earnest to empower LFAs as well as HFAs. since then there's been some controversy about whether Aspergers in particular is a negative or a positive, gift or curse. and with the 2nd series of oppositions between saturn and uranus on the virgo/pisces axis 2008-09, everything we know about autism will be thoroughly reviewed and possibly reinvented. positive reform as well as the advent of freedom and respect could be on the horizon. however those on the spectrum also face possible genocide and extinction. undoubtedly our fate will be decided in the next decade and the fateful astrological die will most likely be cast this year 2009 with the final oppposition of saturn-uranus on 9-15-09.

even today, parents often have dismal attitudes toward their autistic children. one of the links on the neuordiversity website at beginning of this post is Don't Mourn For Us: A Letter To Parents.