![]() |
#1 |
Blue Crack Addict
Join Date: May 2002
Location: hoping for changes
Posts: 23,331
Local Time: 01:58 AM
|
ask the autistic
Is there anything you want to know about autism? I'll be happy to answer any questions you have.
__________________ |
![]() |
![]() |
#2 |
Blue Crack Addict
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: England by way of 'Murica.
Posts: 22,142
Local Time: 01:58 AM
|
There seems to be a rise in autism lately. Do you think it's because it's simply being caught and diagnosed more, or is it actually appearing in more people?
__________________ |
![]() |
![]() |
#3 |
Rock n' Roll Doggie
FOB Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Long Island, NY, USA, Earth
Posts: 9,784
Local Time: 09:58 PM
|
Do they get any even though they have autism?
|
![]() |
![]() |
#4 |
Blue Crack Addict
Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 15,106
Local Time: 08:58 PM
|
My roommate is very interested in autism, and she'd like to know the severity of your specific case, and if you, by chance, see musical notes as colors.
|
![]() |
![]() |
#5 | |
Blue Crack Addict
Join Date: May 2002
Location: hoping for changes
Posts: 23,331
Local Time: 01:58 AM
|
Quote:
|
|
![]() |
![]() |
#6 | |
Blue Crack Addict
Join Date: May 2002
Location: hoping for changes
Posts: 23,331
Local Time: 01:58 AM
|
Quote:
|
|
![]() |
![]() |
#7 |
Blue Crack Supplier
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Washington, DC
Posts: 33,720
Local Time: 09:58 PM
|
do you ever have to "come out" as autistic? is it appropriate to ever bring into casual conversation, and if so, how do you do it?
|
![]() |
![]() |
#8 |
Blue Crack Addict
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: burning up on re-entry
Posts: 24,953
Local Time: 06:58 PM
|
I've had 3 students with Asberger's. We have a pretty cool autism program at our school (a regular public school).
|
![]() |
![]() |
#9 |
Blue Crack Distributor
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: In a dry and waterless place
Posts: 55,743
Local Time: 08:58 PM
|
How does having Aspergers affect your social interactions? How does it affect the way that you learn things?
Eta - thought of another question/comment. I once read a theory about the rise in rates of the occurrence of autism that was really interesting, and it relates to your comment about heritability. It speculated that in decades past, people who carried mild forms of autism, mostly undetected, would go on to marry and have children with people who didn't carry this genetic feature, and so their children would be unlikely to exhibit symptoms of the autism range. Now that more women are entering scientific and technological fields (fields that are sometimes attractive to those who are mildly autistic, or have undiagnosed autistic tendencies), more men and women with those tendencies are meeting, marrying, and having children with full-blown autism. If I remember correctly, I think they've found higher rates of autism in areas that have a concentration of those types of employers. One that I remember specifically is Silicon Valley. They weren't saying that this accounts for all cases, but that it could account for the significant rise in recent years. Have you heard of this theory, and if so. what are your thoughts? |
![]() |
![]() |
#10 |
Blue Crack Addict
Join Date: May 2002
Location: hoping for changes
Posts: 23,331
Local Time: 01:58 AM
|
It affect it a great deal.
|
![]() |
![]() |
#11 | |
Blue Crack Addict
Join Date: May 2002
Location: hoping for changes
Posts: 23,331
Local Time: 01:58 AM
|
Quote:
|
|
![]() |
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
Display Modes | |
|
|