Re: CHAT: OT CHAT: Asperger's syndrome
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 22, 2000, 17:28 |
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At 11:15 22.6.2000 -0400, bjm10@CORNELL.EDU wrote:
>Gee, sounds like my sons, but they're just yackity and smart. Oddly
>enough, they have no problems relating to other kids as yackity and
>smart. It's only when put in with those who don't share interests that
>they become "dysfunctional"...
That's me in a nutshell! Of course, since I have Cerebral Palsy I can take
just a certain level of stress and/or intensity of incoming data before
nodding off or getting *real* irritated, and CP people *can* be mildly
autistic -- after all there's brain damage involved --, but my inability to
"tune down" to normal conversation over the weather is something else. To
wit that problem goes away in the right company.
My mother, who is a psychiatrist, once described Asperger people as being
totally devoid of empathy. Adrians description would not make it seem so.
What have you to say about that, Adrian?
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melroch@mail.com
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