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AspieUtah
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13 Jul 2015, 9:29 am

Aut.SagePub.com wrote:
Isabel Grinker, 23 years of age, sometimes uses the word "autism" to describe herself and her talents—among them, the ability to assemble jigsaw puzzles. Sometimes she turns the pieces over, picture down, so that she can put the puzzle together by shape instead of image. Inexplicably, there is always one piece missing. She does not say why she has put a piece in her pocket, under a pillow, or in a jewelry box....

Aut.SagePub.com: "Notes on a puzzle piece" (2015, Vol. 19(6) 643-645)
http://aut.sagepub.com/content/19/6/643.full.pdf

Roy Richard Grinker, Ph.D., presented this commentary in May at the 2015 IMFAR conference. It is now published by Autism journal.


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13 Jul 2015, 10:58 am

I am not a puzzle


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14 Jul 2015, 10:38 am

One of my committee advisors for my thesis is friends with Roy Grinker. He does some interesting research. As far as I know, he is the only anthropologist that is studying autism.

The article is talking about the original meaning of the puzzle piece icon, that autistic people do not, and should not fit in with the greater puzzle, which is society. I wasn't familiar with all that, so it was interesting to read. Thanks for the link, AspieUtah!



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14 Jul 2015, 10:59 am

SocOfAutism wrote:
One of my committee advisors for my thesis is friends with Roy Grinker. He does some interesting research. As far as I know, he is the only anthropologist that is studying autism.

The article is talking about the original meaning of the puzzle piece icon, that autistic people do not, and should not fit in with the greater puzzle, which is society. I wasn't familiar with all that, so it was interesting to read. Thanks for the link, AspieUtah!

You are welcome! Grinker remarked about his uniqueness in the autism field during a panel discussion immediately after he presented his commentary linked above where he and Simon Baron-Cohen argued a bit about the terms "Autism Spectrum Disorder" and "Autism Spectrum Condition." They settled somewhat in agreement with returning to the original phrase "autism" to avoid negative overtones. It is true that, sometimes, a non-professional (at least within a specific profession) can see truisms better than those who are professional.


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