Dr. Tony Attwood - Key Learnings of Autism Thought Leaders

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LOL my bad. spanish speaker here.

In the ideal world none of us would ever make a spelling mistake or some other error when writing. But sadly we do not live in an ideal world, I think that trying to punish or belittle someone for making a spelling error is cold hearted and mean minded. We should try to be sensitive to the feelings and the needs of each other, even if we have NT, AS, ADHD, HFA, xyz or alphabet soup we should still try each day to become better men and women. I think that refraining from mocking the ordinary user because they can not use written English perfectly is on the same level as mocking a blind man for not being able to see.

By the way I have had some funny moments with misreading text, I once saw a packet of Christmas cards which had "Humourless Christmas Cards", I looked a second time and understood that I had misread it and it did read "Humorous Christmas Cards". I would be interested to know what a Humourless Christmas Cards would be like.

Please tell me you didn't think i was sniggering at the fact that fernando had made a spelling mistake?

Anal-ise = to make something anal, rectal, bottom related.

Analyse = to consider in detail or break down into components or essential features (which is what it seems i did with the original post)

I am sorry if this unintentional (i assume) yet elaborate pun is lost on you, but it made me smile. Please get down off your high horses.

Please see fernando's apology for not being an English speaker. Perhaps he does not get the subtle shading of what 'snigger' means to at least American English speakers. Perhaps the word did not translate in what ever he is using to translate because of the spelling?

anyway, it was a nice apology.

Merle

I have two of his books. He seems to understand the subject very well.

In August in Brisbane 2009, Professor Tony Attwood and Dr. Michelle Garnett will be speaking at an Inaugural Women and Girls with ASD's conference.
i have also been invited to speak at the same conference. Two other women with ASD's have also been invited to talk.
He seems like a good man - and i believe he is extremely sincere in his wish to educate the broader community on autism.

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awesome, Millie!
Dr. Attwood and Temple Grandin are speaking this July 23 and 24 about 50 miles away from me. The several groups in the Portland, Oregon area that are very excited to go together. I have seen Dr. Attwood before but have a major crush on Temple Grandin

Thanks sinsboldly.
The Brisbane organisation that runs these things rang during the week - they had hear me in a national radio interview on our public broadcasting station some months ago, so I shall talk about my experiences as a woman with an ASD - who went undiagnosed - as many of us have from our age group - and the pitfalls to watch out for.
It is the first conference specifically focusing on women and girls - and i think it can mark - and does exemplify - a very important turning point in the way the health-professionals community views the "forgotten population" of ASD people.

And I will be pointing some of the girls to WP as a site where there are some very good and healthy discussions on being female with an ASD.


I would also like to see Temple Grandin speak. I hope the Oregon crew has a great time at that conference.
I actually found the footage of her lying down in the paddock with cows, to be one of the most poetic visual expressions of autism i have ever seen. It said so much about our instincts, our capacities and our extraordinary ways of viewing and interacting with the world.
What impeccable taste you have when it comes to "crushes," sinsboldly!

I gave Dr. Attwood a WrongPlanet.net tee shirt from the online store, here. Once I saw the man I realized the tee shirt was HUGE on him but he wore it bravely for the camera.




Later, in his talk after the lunch interval, he was in the middle of making a point about young Aspies getting 'out there' in the social scene and dashed back to his podium and unfurls the huge WrongPlanet.net tee (which was a perfect sized banner, enough to be seen 30 rows back) and waves it to the assembled. He quite enthusiastically recommended WP as an excellent place to mix and mingle and learn a thing or two.

I can't tell you what a strain that has put on my being a moderator, always thinking of that young Aspie venturing onto WP and how it can be an optimum site to reach out to and trust. I get hounded for being so vigilant, too, and I wish I didn't care, but WP is such a wonderful resource it deserves a steady hand.

I suppose you know I was diagnosed later in life, too and had the good luck to discover WP about a week after I first knew. (Someone PMed me to tell me if I'd made my 11111th post within a two hour period would have landed on my 22,222 nd hour of being a member of WP. He had worked out that I had made a posting every half hour over the past 2.5 years on average! about a year ago they gave me a mop and bucket and bingo! I became a mod.)

I wrote my story for a book but it is taking forever to get reviewed. I testify for various bills of legislation for around the state. I am starting to stretch and grow in my new identity. If anyone ever needs anyone to talk about being a moderator on WP, I'm your gal!

Tony's still sexy in his Wrong Planet tee....Lab Pet thinks Tony is hot!

Tony loves Aspies, but I'm his favorite

You make me laugh LabPet. I've had a hard day and i come on to WP and it is good.

And Sinsboldly, for what it is worth, whether you realise it or not, you have taught me some valuable lessons in tolerance for younger WP members. I appreciate it. once, after yet another of my rants, i sat back and thought about your subsequent post on tolerance, and it has helped me to move past some bitterness about later-life diagnosis. I think - when I first came to WP - I was begrudging of younger members who had not had my life journey. They haven't had mine, but they have had their own - and whether dx'ed early or not - each story is usually one of difficulty and struggle. thanks.
WP does need that steady hand, and we need to support each other.

Let us know when that book comes out. I will look forward to reading the section about "Merle."

You're welcome millie

I am humbled and might need more coffee before replying. Not being bitter where bitterness once was is a very good thing. It couldn't happen to a better person.

Are they paying autistic speakers as much as they are paying the others?

they also have a table that is 6 inches lower for the autistics than the non-autistic tables, too, I hear. Any other rumors we can generate?

I asked a question. I did not spread a rumour. If I had made a statement that autistics were not paid, that might be considered a rumour if it was not true.