AUTISM AND MENTAL RETARDATION ARE DIFFERENT!

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I guess I messed up. I was PM'd that the 'girl' is a guy who isn't diagnosed but she/he was trying to tell me how to watch a video like a regular person, not realizing of course that I'm not a regular person, but an autistic person who apparantly is a surprise for her/him to encounter on a site for autistic people.

I don't care if I repeat someone. I never read the topic beforehand but while I write.


I am sure that autism can influence the IQ negatively.

To have an ASD can lower your verbal score for one - even if you're a verbal individual - drastically, because you probably did not experience the social context and meaning of several words.

Perhaps you also have what is commonly called NLD/NVLD which affects your performance score significantly.

To have an ASD also means you probably missed part of a standard education (even just by being thrown out of the classroom) and this lack of general knowledge also lowers you score on several IQ tests. Another reason for not having a normal amount of general knowledge (basic physics, chemistry, history) could be special interests too. This lowers your verbal IQ score and might also give your problems with the overall understanding of the instructions. (Understanding most academic instructions right away is a learnt trait and something children learn starting with kindergarten/preschool/school.)

If you had a non-standard education or less than that your maths skills might be affected negatively. As could be your spelling knowledge. This does not mean your maths or spelling ability are impaired, but your knowledge of the subjects is atypically limited as compared to that of someone with a standard education.

More directly, sensory issues, communication impairments (speech and language), social deficits and repetitive behaviours and activities can occur in ASDs. These can also affect and lower the IQ score on a standardised test. And not so only temporarily but also for a prolonged period or all the time if your impairments are hard or even impossible to make up for.

And this is not even touching upon a possible direct genetic or neurological relationship of a cognitive delay and classical autism and PDD-NOS.



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I do not think that physical/neurological aspects cause a cognitive delay on their own in many autistic people. Just personal perception though. I mean, look at the surprisingly many people labelled MR who fight different battles (metaphorically speaking) due to sensory issues or than some of non-autistic people also labelled with MR. How many are left that seem to have a low IQ and miserable adaptive skills due to more than ASD symptoms?

MR (as defined officially) is truly a huge part of the autistic spectrum.

Many autistic people test for a low general IQ and have issues with adaptive skills which absolutely is MR.

Doesn't mean they all have a single reason for their MR. And it's not as if MR is something horribly bad.

Besides,

maybe rather than pushing it far away, you should learn what it means and refrain from allowing that any person is treated 'like a ret*d'.

How is 'a ret*d' treated? You do not seem to accept it - just like many others find the cannot accept to be treated like that too.

Yet I don't see why those without MR are offended by the treatment and accusations they receive when they're thought to be MR. When at the same time, by explaining they have nothing to do with it, they don't mind that those with MR receive the same offending treatments and accusations.

'You can have everybody else but leave me alone'? I don't understand why anyone would have that thinking.





Well I'm diagnosed with AS and it's not like I don't have that problem also. Don't really understand what's that got to do with AS now.


Wait, I thought we can't have impaired adaptive skills.

Oh my god. Ah.
Thank you Wrong Planet, for deleting the videos and I didn't leave the one one I did on YouTube. Yep.
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All right, er just open up Vegas.
Mental retardation and autism... they're different.
They're two different things.
But people and trolls wrongly group them together.
It's terrible. It sucks.
It's not really that good at all.

It's awful, having to see, many autistics and people, aspies, er., people on the spectrum, being wrongly grouped together with, erm, mental retardation.
And, just because, the mentally ret*d and autistics both (?) tantrums does not mean they're the same. Which is pretty much where the whole wrongly grouping thing comes in.
Autism mimics many other things, like Michael Savage said, you know, hate Michael Savage.
Michael Savage he (unintelligible) autism does(?) many things.
That's why I say autism may have the same reason, same effects, but it's for a different reason.
Autism is a Progressive Development Disorder [ed: no, it's a Pervasive Developmental Disorder] P D D.
In other words, your brain will grow at different rates at different times.
So in the end, it does balance out, and your brain is a good size. It's just that different parts of it will bear, be bigger than each other.
For example, your speech side may not be as big as your mathematical ability. And that, basically, your brain is wired differently. That's what autism truly is.
That's why it can't technically be cured.
It can be treated. If you get an early intervention, which would probably be a good thing for kids, or if you hit it early, like they did with me, then you know, if you get it when you're like three, erm, you're gonna be, and get all the counselling and help that, you know, that I did, then, you're probably gonna be fine.
But, erm, mental retardation, er, is brain damage. It can be caused from lack of oxygen when you're say, being born.
So, of course, that that mental retardation... to ret*d something means to slow it down. So, if your brain is ret*d, that means the execution events will be slower.
That's what mental retardation is.
And that's what autism is.
A PDD and brain damage.
Two different things that are being wrongly grouped together.
Why I made the video? The same reason I made the "How to spell Asperger's" video.
It's like, the trolls have this whole campaign.
Think of the trolls' campaign against autism as a body.
And think of this video as a gun, shooting at the kneecap... which is the whole retardation thing. Making the whole body, which is their whole campaign against autism, to collapse.
It's a weird analogy, but it'll have to do.
That's all I have to say.

So who ever said mental retardation was the same as autism? Even ret*d people and autistic people know the difference so what is your point? You think we're all stupid or something or like poorly made vids?

. . . a ret*d with an IQ of 80 . . .

Actually, since we're all impaired, and autism is in the brain, and therefore mental, perhaps even those of us with high IQs are mentally ret*d, too, in our own sweet way, just not with respect to academic performance. My kindergarten teacher thought I was "simple". She didn't know I could already read, but in a way she was right.