Professional Presence?

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I'm curious if there are any health professionals who follow WP as a matter of course. Specifically what set off this question was this topic about "adaptogens" as a treatment for AS. http://www.wrongplanet.net/modules.php? ... c&p=361285

I just think it would be cool if, for example, verdicus (who started the above thread) reported that adaptogens were helping with stimulous overload, and this led to a professional study, or any methods our members come up with for coping ended up being recommended in a professional context.

I've seen a couple of people post single threads asking for information for a study, but nothing more thorough than that.

I've often read that a paradigm shift is brought about by an outsider to the paradigm. What you have here is a conglomeration of people who are outsiders by nature.


In response to your post I feel there is definitely something very "cutting-edge" about a site like WrongPlanet.

Oh, I quite agree. But if there were a few respected professionals on board, we could help them help us, and maybe do a paradigm shift without popping the clutch.

I always wondered if my AS counselor visits WP, since he knows about it and has mostly AS clients.I think people who work with AS could learn a lot just by "observing".Maybe they would think it was "poor boundaries?"I think we could use a "Jane Goodall of the aspies."

"Jane Goodall of the aspies." ! !! !!

ROFLMAO!!

It may just be my cynicism showing but Id think a professional actually learning from their patients rather than the other way around (the "proper" way) where they can flex their authority is the pinnacle of absurdity to them.

They spent all that time and money in school after all how could some layperson or worse yet the patient themself possibly know something they dont?

As amusing as the phrase "Jane Goodall of the Aspies" is, and despite the fact that I'm failing to come up with a good "Gorillas in the Mist" pun, that's exactly what I'm talking about.

Tell that to someone who's been diagnosed with every gad-danged thing under the sun, knowing there was always something "off" about said diagnoses, only to finally have things making sense due to a random wikipedia article, or what have you...now THERE is your pinnacle

verdicus... even that is something they could learn from.

Hee. I kinda feel like that myself, some days. Although I'm not a professional, so that'd make me more like... an Aspie Whisperer?

What I think would also be good is if more people who live in & around folks with AS could drop in here and have a look around. Too many people hear "autism" of any sort and just kinda shut down, having weird expectations and preconceptions that they never will bother to correct, and in any case, don't have any idea how to deal with or understand it. When I met Cat I read everything I could find about AS, but it wasn't until I spent lots of time around him that I really started to "get it." It's the little things, the differences in how his brain works, the slightly different way he sees things, etc. that make it hard for NT's to understand him. Once I've experienced some of his quirks, I can better figure out what's going on, which makes life a little easier for both of us.

Reading through Wrong Planet is like a crash course in those things.

It beats being married to an Aspie Screamer.

Nah, it's all good. But it might make you an AsSpeaBiscuit?

**ducks**

This thread has made my morning!