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 Topic: Dreams & Spatial Reasoning |
Sophist
Replies: 7
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 Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 11:54 pm Subject: Dreams & Spatial Reasoning |
| The dream thread made me wonder about this. There are two basic circuits in the visual system: that which feeds from the occipital lobes (primary vision cortex) up into the parietal lobes (called the ... |
| Topic: Prove That You're AS |
Sophist
Replies: 31
Views: 1014
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 11:42 pm Subject: Prove That You're AS |
| Thankfully since my assessment and dx, the whole "prove it" thing has calmed down. But up until that point I was constantly coming up against people, especially professionals with no ASC experience, w ... |
| Topic: I WANT TO BE A GENIUS |
Sophist
Replies: 149
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 11:39 pm Subject: I WANT TO BE A GENIUS |
My point is that if your goal is to go around telling people about your high IQ, then I understand wishing for a higher IQ (though outside of your own self-satisfaction you will accomplish little ... |
| Topic: I WANT TO BE A GENIUS |
Sophist
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 11:32 pm Subject: I WANT TO BE A GENIUS |
In my experience, the most successful people are those who are smart enough to realize what they know and are humbled by how much they do not know.
Well said. Some nice wisdom there.  |
| Topic: Good Morning America: segment on Neurodiversity 06/09/2008 |
Sophist
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 11:29 pm Subject: Good Morning America: segment on Neurodiversity 06/09/2008 |
I didn't honestly expect brilliant things from the reporting. After watching such shows before, I didn't find their reactions or the level of the piece all that surprising.
However, I think it is a ... |
| Topic: I WANT TO BE A GENIUS |
Sophist
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 7:54 pm Subject: I WANT TO BE A GENIUS |
| I would treasure Wisdom and Willpower over "Intelligence"-- however flawed the latter concept is... |
| Topic: A question about dreams to everybody on the spectrum |
Sophist
Replies: 31
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 7:47 pm Subject: A question about dreams to everybody on the spectrum |
| Nowadays, my dreams don't really follow a particular (though strange) storyline. Everything's just kinda thrown together with random segments and imagery. That sometimes includes people, usually peopl ... |
| Topic: Good Morning America: segment on Neurodiversity 06/09/2008 |
Sophist
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 7:37 pm Subject: Good Morning America: segment on Neurodiversity 06/09/2008 |
For anyone who's wanting to watch it, it's now online:
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=5036816
Morning show reporting... ah... They spend more time on "How to Have Summer Fun" and recip ... |
| Topic: Good Morning America: segment on Neurodiversity 06/09/2008 |
Sophist
Replies: 15
Views: 987
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 12:02 pm Subject: Good Morning America: segment on Neurodiversity 06/09/2008 |
| I waited for it but it never came on. Anybody know what happened?? |
| Topic: Good Morning America: segment on Neurodiversity 06/09/2008 |
Sophist
Replies: 15
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 9:58 pm Subject: Good Morning America: segment on Neurodiversity 06/09/2008 |
Passing this on from ASAN:
Hello everyone,
Tomorrow, Good Morning America will air a segment discussing the neurodiversity movement, featuring comments from myself, Kristina Chew of the Autism V ... |
| Topic: More Self-Tests: Face Blindness and Tone Recognition |
Sophist
Replies: 8
Views: 387
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 1:07 pm Subject: More Self-Tests: Face Blindness and Tone Recognition |
Have done the Face Blindness ones before (so much that now I remember many of the faces and end up having a practice effect on my score); always score well above average.
Thanks for the link to the ... |
| Topic: Transexuals and autistic traits |
Sophist
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 3:25 pm Subject: Re: Transexuals and autistic traits |
| The study Female-to-male-Transexuals and Autistic Traits by a team at the Autism Research Centre at Cambridge University found that transmen (female-to-male transexuals) have more autistic traits, as ... |
| Topic: Transexuals and autistic traits |
Sophist
Replies: 8
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 3:22 pm Subject: Transexuals and autistic traits |
my sister is male to female and she was dx'd as having AS before i was.
that said. the sample is itty bitty. i know it's not necessarily easy to find qualified participants... but at least wait lon ... |
| Topic: BAP Broader Autistic Phenotype |
Sophist
Replies: 13
Views: 657
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 9:53 am Subject: BAP Broader Autistic Phenotype |
| I am very interested in the subject of BAP. People with BAP are on the borderlands of autism and whether or not they are autistic is a matter of differing opinions. If autistic people are only those ... |
| Topic: BAP Broader Autistic Phenotype |
Sophist
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 9:51 am Subject: BAP Broader Autistic Phenotype |
Not everyone recognizes it, but it does come under PDD-NOS in some institutions (as there's no set definition of labels other than what is listed in the DSM-IV-TR under PDD-NOS):
DSM-IV states that ... |
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