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Gedrene
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04 Oct 2011, 3:56 pm

anna-banana wrote:
it's really hard to defend the idea that autism is, as you say, "one disorder".

No, I didn't o-o
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In fact it supports the idea that autism itself is actually a series of disorders that are seperate

I said exactly the opposite.

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We also have the problem of what exactly the 'stereotyped movements' are in the children with autism, and of the mice in relation.
can you not tell stimming when you see it? (I know it's not a very scientific criterion ;))
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lease. I am telling the truth here. There are actually quite a few 'autistic' people who do not have stereotyped movements. I know alot of them in real life. I go to a damned group with all of them. Not a stim in sight. It only further delieates the fact that autism is a junk taxon, where all the various disorders of vaguely similar kinds come to play.

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Also, I can be bothered to do a lot of things.


wish I could be able to say the same!

I wish you could too. I hope you got the message that I didn't think autism was one disorder.



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04 Oct 2011, 4:12 pm

Gedrene wrote:
I wish you could too. I hope you got the message that I didn't think autism was one disorder.


ah sorry then honest mistake.


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05 Oct 2011, 1:14 am

I wonder how they "know" the mice are autistic?

Do they wander around their cages saying squeak squeak repetitively and routinely run up and down a spinning wheel?



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05 Oct 2011, 3:46 am

cyberdad wrote:
I wonder how they "know" the mice are autistic?

Do they wander around their cages saying squeak squeak repetitively and routinely run up and down a spinning wheel?

They stack pieces of cheese in size order.



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05 Oct 2011, 7:58 pm

Gedrene wrote:
cyberdad wrote:
I wonder how they "know" the mice are autistic?

Do they wander around their cages saying squeak squeak repetitively and routinely run up and down a spinning wheel?

They stack pieces of cheese in size order.


Or make a cheese tower or line up pellets in a row.

Actually I was being serious, how does one profile autism in mice?