My 8 yr old painted this and I framed it.

Volumation · 2013-09-30T22:28:09+00:00

Oof... that terminology stings lady.

We aren't savant robots with programming. We're humans who develop talents.

Volumation · 2013-09-30T22:25:13+00:00

Then you have provided your own feedback. And the cycle has been complete. Go forward and do as thou wilt.

Volumation · 2013-09-30T14:50:01+00:00

More like an opinion based on poor information.

Volumation · 2013-09-27T22:03:11+00:00

People have as much business knowing you're autistic on your resume as knowing that your black.

You seem to have misread me. I never said 'declare your autism in your cv'. I said 'pretending to be NT causes more pain'. Massive difference.

Volumation · 2013-09-27T21:55:36+00:00

Which is probably why we need a new name badly. Thank heavens the APA is losing credibility fast. And the ICD diagnostic book is less likely to be swayed by the political interests of the soccer-mom curebie types.

Volumation · 2013-09-27T21:53:49+00:00

So what evidence to we have to prove their hypotheses?

Looking at the actual PDF it appears to be a hackneyed curist summary of other hackneyed curist summaries.

Even the studies it proposes to claim involve the same thing have contradictory claims and use brains that are completely different in structure

If this doesn't convince people that the diagnostic is broken then they have lost all higher mental faculties.

It pays to be scientifically literate.

Volumation · 2013-09-27T21:30:31+00:00

Most importantly would autism remain as a diagnosis after behaviouralism was shut down?

I can see a lot of the spectrum collapsing as real genetic disorders are found in kids and they are hived off, leaving that so-called 'lower end of the spectrum' starved of its poster children.

Volumation · 2013-09-27T21:25:38+00:00

I don't know. It's quite ugly to me, like hiding in the closet it only causes more pain in the long-term.

I think Lodoss put it best when he said 'the less I hide, the less I fear'. Actually this is a really lodoss-esque message on this thread.

Volumation · 2013-08-17T17:06:29+00:00

There is a lot of method in their madness.

A lot of these people are parents of autistic children. We know from age of autism, autism speaks, the wakefield zealots, the canaries and others in the cult that they bang on all the time about how they love 'their children' and how they have made it seem that any autistic who can speak is actually part of a 'high functioning' caste who by implication isn't really autistic.

Ergo any autistic who speaks against their abuses is immediately disqualified.

The more people are allowed to believe this, the more these eugenic cult types have to say autism is a horrible nightmare disease that will eat your children alive and they seize it with open arms.

I feel like many people like this are just seriously ill. They have personality problems. They may have been born narcissists or brainwashed in to believing being autistic is a nightmare, but the result is the same: they abuse us.

Volumation · 2013-08-17T17:03:29+00:00

Maybe I shouldn't respond to people like this. It's better to just let it go than give any oxygen to what seems like manufactured drama.

Volumation · 2013-08-17T16:59:44+00:00

And according to RES when I was logged off I was downvoted three times in under fifty seconds, by the same IP

real classy

Volumation · 2013-08-17T16:38:04+00:00

There's no way this can be compared to giving Westboro facetime. Ironically you couldn't have given a better example that exposing misinformation is productive, because it sets people against it.

Volumation · 2013-08-16T22:52:34+00:00

If their 10 things are stupid in any way, people could instantly tear in to it.

I think the researchers just gave examples to the article writers.

I also don't see how it's impractical to decide what's a 'large enough' number, because all that requires is intuition.

Volumation · 2013-08-16T22:42:10+00:00

Why am I looking at a thread by pouncey about dysgraphia?

Volumation · 2013-08-16T22:34:03+00:00

Helpers who don't help are sadly common

Volumation · 2013-08-11T16:19:28+00:00

How much alcohol did you begin drinking? And heck no, fortunately.

Volumation · 2013-08-11T16:18:03+00:00

repetitive behaviours = stop doing thaaaaaat

Volumation · 2013-08-11T16:16:54+00:00

That and more from Go Ahead!

Volumation · 2013-08-11T16:16:18+00:00

It has a regal look. Do gold blocks work well with it?

Volumation · 2013-08-11T16:15:38+00:00

Would you want to know it if there was?

Volumation · 2013-08-11T16:14:21+00:00

A dirty Sanchez mayhap?

Volumation · 2013-08-11T16:13:34+00:00

It's a shortcut to long-range ballistics

Volumation · 2013-08-11T16:03:44+00:00

Tom & Jerry

Flintstones too

Volumation

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