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09 Mar 2008, 2:14 pm

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Autism article in Wired magazine!! !

The Truth About Autism: Scientists Reconsider What They Think They Know
[Wired March 2008]


It shows Amanda, maybe you've already seen her Youtube video.

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People like Baggs fall at one end of an array of developmental syndromes known as autism spectrum disorders. The spectrum ranges from someone with severe disability and cognitive impairment to the socially awkward eccentric with Asperger's syndrome.


Here's the link to the full article. Enjoy :)
http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/mag ... /ff_autism


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09 Mar 2008, 5:46 pm

I certainly did enjoy! What a refreshing breath of air in the autism circles!


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09 Mar 2008, 5:54 pm

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I certainly did enjoy! What a refreshing breath of air in the autism circles!


For those who don't use their own names maybe? I saw only the usual distortions! No evident link with what autism really means.



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09 Mar 2008, 6:31 pm

This is an absolutely EXCELLENT article that everyone should read.

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10 Mar 2008, 1:05 am

gwynfryn wrote:
hartzofspace wrote:
I certainly did enjoy! What a refreshing breath of air in the autism circles!


For those who don't use their own names maybe? I saw only the usual distortions! No evident link with what autism really means.


I'm not sure I understand what you are saying. Could you elaborate?


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10 Mar 2008, 1:15 am

...I posted about this in the Media forum , tho I don't have time 2 go re-check :cry: .



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14 Mar 2008, 12:40 am

I just finished the article - how nice to see something like this in the general media. I especially love the line, "...to a remarkable degree, scientists conducting cognitive evaluations continue to use tests which presume that people who can't communicate the answer don't know the answer."



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21 Mar 2008, 12:37 pm

Very interesting article, and I was surprised they talk about the Montréal's hospital, this is where I go!


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21 Mar 2008, 12:53 pm

I lived most of my life in Montreal. I'll have to see that anyway because everyone likes it and it seems like good, non-threatening news for once. :)



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21 Mar 2008, 1:17 pm

One of the vary first articles on Aspergers I ever read, was in Wired, about an autism cluster in Silicon Valley (should this surprise anyone?). That article (1) made me solidly sure that the cause is genetic and (2) helped me focus on all the good things that come from a brain wired a little differently.

This article is similar, in trying to offer a positive perspective.

Silicon Valley attacts Aspies. The magazine is produced within a community that by its very nature should value neurodiversity.


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21 Mar 2008, 4:34 pm

Personally, my theory is that we're all actually from another planet and were mistakenly swapped somehow so that we ended up here. And sometimes, I'm only half-joking with that. My Aspie teenage son certainly wonders about it. :lol:


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21 Mar 2008, 5:10 pm

Ahhh... It's nice to know that we've got Wired magazine on our side! It's not exactly a psychology journal, but every ally helps in the fight to greater acceptance of autism/Asperger's



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21 Mar 2008, 6:13 pm

I've been sharing and passing that link (and the you-tube movie) along for NT's to read. There are a couple inaccuracies though that Amanda points out in her blog somewhere.



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25 Mar 2008, 7:39 pm

DW_a_mom wrote:
One of the vary first articles on Aspergers I ever read, was in Wired, about an autism cluster in Silicon Valley (should this surprise anyone?). That article (1) made me solidly sure that the cause is genetic and (2) helped me focus on all the good things that come from a brain wired a little differently.

This article is similar, in trying to offer a positive perspective.

Silicon Valley attacts Aspies. The magazine is produced within a community that by its very nature should value neurodiversity.


Hi, I've read that one too, also a very good one, highly recommended:

here's the link if anyone wants to give it a read:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12 ... rs_pr.html


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25 Mar 2008, 8:40 pm

westernwild wrote:
Personally, my theory is that we're all actually from another planet and were mistakenly swapped somehow so that we ended up here. And sometimes, I'm only half-joking with that. My Aspie teenage son certainly wonders about it. :lol:


My doctor said something to that effect. He told me I (and his other AS/HFA patients) remind him of the creatures in "Men in Black"--out of place and stuffed into bodies that don't fit them.



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26 Mar 2008, 8:03 am

computerlove wrote:
DW_a_mom wrote:
One of the vary first articles on Aspergers I ever read, was in Wired, about an autism cluster in Silicon Valley (should this surprise anyone?). That article (1) made me solidly sure that the cause is genetic and (2) helped me focus on all the good things that come from a brain wired a little differently.


here's the link if anyone wants to give it a read:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12 ... rs_pr.html

This is the article that made the first *ding* in my head, I took the AQ test from the wired site years ago and this is where it started...
I then made some research on AS and hit this site, and take an ap to a doctor to get a diagnostic :roll:


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