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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Too autistic to get diagnosed? ("Do I have it?") |
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Posted: 27 May 2013, 1:11 pm
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Glock wrote: I'm just wondering if the "a special interest" -case made all the difference.
I do not find it very likely that your answer to that question made a big difference in your case. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Post some PPR quotes |
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Posted: 26 May 2013, 9:23 pm
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Replies: 203
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If we identify nature with what natural science aims to make comprehensible, we threaten, at least, to empty it of meaning.
John McDowell |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Death of the Syndrome |
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Posted: 26 May 2013, 9:02 pm
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Replies: 172
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| Can you explain why not calling it aspergers will simplify these conversation or help people to understand?. I can understand that there is a need for a separate diagnosis like the modern Asperger syndrome, but I find the label a bit unfortunate because of the differences between Hans Asperger's or... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: I would like a cure. |
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Posted: 26 May 2013, 6:49 pm
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| I understand that this topic raises a lot of controversy, and I'm not saying that everybody should be cured. A lot of people say that Einstein and Gates were autistic; therefore it shouldn't be cured. But Einstein wasn't just talented at physics; he was talented at violin, sailing, and even gave sp... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Too autistic to get diagnosed? ("Do I have it?") |
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Posted: 26 May 2013, 6:24 pm
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| First, welcome to wrongplanet and hope you get something out of this place ;) I can not evaluate if you have an autism spectrum disorder or not, but I see the need in your case for a differential diagnosis because your history is rather complex and I do not find it unlikely that you can have another... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: NIMH abandons the DSM-V |
| IChris |
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Posted: 26 May 2013, 3:56 pm
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Replies: 43
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| There is no secret info into this, but it is not so known as it should be to those who are not scientists. Insel push the biomedical model; the model needed for effective pharmacological research, genetical research and in last instance a cure for all conditions in a classification. The critics aga... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Death of the Syndrome |
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Posted: 26 May 2013, 9:19 am
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Replies: 172
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| When the general population thinks of aspergers they think of a quiet genius but when they think of autism, they think ret*d. When the general population thinks of aspergers, what they think is "what?". That is my experience. When telling someone I have asperger syndrome they answer with "what? wha... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: NIMH abandons the DSM-V |
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Posted: 26 May 2013, 5:50 am
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| From what I'm seeing on some of the anti-psychiatry boards, Insel is trying to push his own agenda on what constitutes "mental illness." Interesting.....could you provide examples of what the allegeded "agenda" is? Please feel free to PM me if it should'nt be on the public boards. There is no secre... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autism in France: Psychoanalysis, Packing, Other Travesties |
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Posted: 25 May 2013, 6:18 am
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Replies: 255
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| To Chris, my understanding is that the kind of trauma implicated by psychoanalysts in non-genetic forms of autism most probably is experienced by infants. I think the refrigerator mother is referring to a parenting style in that the mother is frozen off and cannot be intimate with and accepting of ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Death of the Syndrome |
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Posted: 24 May 2013, 9:00 pm
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Replies: 172
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| I think you are right, in a way, but I also think it's inevitable that the NIMH approach, once it's driving a lot of research spending, will yield a lot of new information. I believe the mind is an expression of the body, although it has it's own mechanics--and as the means of that expression are r... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autism in France: Psychoanalysis, Packing, Other Travesties |
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Posted: 24 May 2013, 3:06 pm
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Replies: 255
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| So, in short, do you think that the experience of the infant and the young child with the mother can play into the development of autism? I do, though I also think these psychoanalysts in France who are engaging in practices such as packing should be stopped. But why are so many people so upset wit... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Death of the Syndrome |
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Posted: 24 May 2013, 12:39 pm
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Replies: 172
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| Aspergers will continue to be used as an unofficial label much like HFA. And there is nothing wrong with that. We have used ADHD as an unoffical label in Norway for ages despite that such label does not exist in the ICD-10 (which is the official manual here) and is never written in any official pap... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Death of the Syndrome |
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Posted: 24 May 2013, 5:36 am
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| If we are thinking about nosology, I think the NIMH response to the DSM V is indicative of the likely future: when the diverse etiologies and pathogeneses of various autisms are known, the symptomatic nosology will fade and useful new categories will emerge. It's possible that at that point Asperge... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Death of the Syndrome |
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Posted: 23 May 2013, 9:21 pm
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| As I read it, he is saying that there is a long history of definition of Kanner type autism and Aspergers type autism emerged as a defined thing because of a need to name a recognized distinction. He recognizes that the criteria are imperfect, but maintains that there is a distinction to be made. I... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Do you like being labeled an aspie? |
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Posted: 21 May 2013, 4:51 pm
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Replies: 27
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| I would rather be called autistic. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Wasted Intellect |
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Posted: 21 May 2013, 6:11 am
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Replies: 60
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| My IQ has turned out average (around 100) in clinical testing, and my academic progress has been good (a master of science with good grades), so I do not feel that I have wasted any intelligence, but rather got much more out of it than many others. I think conscientiousness and associative horizon h... |
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