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Re: Katie Miller's IACC Testimony (Autism) (Score: 1)
by foxystallion Saturday, August 23 @ 21:16:35 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | | There is an immense difference between curing the neurological problems that result in a diagnosis of "low performance" and and altering the neurological variations that enable high performing Aspers to think differently, often in a very productive manner. The part of my brain that was supposed to be hardwired for face recognition and emotion reading is free to do other things in science, mathematics, and thinking in pictures. I have been very successful, productive, and creative professionally, and am thoroughly happy with how my brain works.
To better understand the widespread benefits of thinking differently, I recommend that you study Ricardo's Law of Association, one of the fundamental laws of economics. It states that mutually beneficial trade is possible only between those who are unequally unequal.
http://mises.org/humanaction/chap8sec4.asp
As a politician, I'd be a tremendous flop (how the heck do they recognize my face and remember my name after having seen me for a few minutes years ago?) As a physicist, however, my inability to remember human names and read faces is of little consequence, but my ability to visualize the performance of very complex systems has been a tremendous boon - and very profitable. |
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