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12 Oct 2009, 6:30 pm

Probably Grandin and then Attwood, in that order of preference.


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13 Oct 2009, 2:34 am

Francis wrote:
Interesting question, but as I thought about it I decided nobody. I've been living it for 4o years there's nothing they are going to tell me in a few hours of a conference I don't already know. They have biweekly conferences here where I live. I've never gone to a single one. There's really nothing for me to get out of it.

I'd like to send my immediate family to a Tony Attwood conference.


Hiya Francis.....I have been living it for 51yrs and I am still LEARNING soooo much. There is new research out by the day and new ways being created to help those of us on the spectrum. For those of us with children especially younger ones, there is SO much to get out of the latest information. :D

Watch this space, I may have something interesting for ALL of you! Working really really hard on a project at the moment. I just need to know WHAT YOU WANT......I want to ask ALL of you what is helpful and what is not. That way maybe we can create something for everyone this time. I am trying my very very best!


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13 Oct 2009, 3:10 am

I don't like Grandin or Attwood.

Uh, me, I'd really like to see that.



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13 Oct 2009, 4:32 am

I would have liked to see Tony Atwood as well but when he came here, where I live, the cost for the conference was of 75 € (if I remember well)!

I thought it was a bit expensive for a conference, even in a prestigious place as it was.

I didn't go.

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But I've seen a few times Eric Willaye from Belgium and a Spanish psychiatrist, whom I alas don't remember the name but who is very famous on the autism field in Europe for his achievements and I'll go again with pleasure every time I can because they are really great.



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13 Oct 2009, 4:59 am

Jennifer McIlwee Myers. Her chapter ”Aspie do’s and don’ts” in the book ”Asperger’s and girls” really inpressed me. She has insight and compassion. She has great understanding and knows what it’s about being an Aspie herself. She'd be my first choice.

If I could put up a second choice I think Tony Attwood and Simon Baron-Cohen would make interesting choices as well, since they both have insight into AS and they have different views but aren’t as judgemental as most NT AS-specialists. (although I am tired of hearing that we don’t have humour and that we can’t be creative.)