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06 Sep 2011, 3:38 pm

I am wondering if there would be any interest in a sub-forum devoted to autism research.

I don't know if I'm supposed to ask the mods about this, but I thought I'd gauge interest first.

In the sub-forum, I am envisioning people posting threads discussing research articles. One thread per article, examining the research assumptions and interpretations to determine if the findings make sense from both the NT and autistic perspectives. Questioning assumptions and making alternative interpretations if necessary. The same data can often be interpreted in different ways, depending on who is doing the interpreting. Even more so when the data comes out of and makes conclusions about brrrainzzz.

I know that autism research is often brought up in the general discussion, but I would like to see a sub-forum for it, so the research can be discussed in excruciating detail for its own sake, out of the context of other discussions involving personal agendas or opinions. More like an autistic search for truth, hypersystemizing totally included. Is anyone else interested in this sub-forum? What say the mods?



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06 Sep 2011, 4:06 pm

I like this idea.


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06 Sep 2011, 4:23 pm

Sounds good, but I suspect that will be a bad ideia.

The result could be to put the more "scientific"discussions in a ghetto with few contributors and simultaneously "dumbing down" the discussions in the general forum.



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06 Sep 2011, 4:50 pm

LETS DO IT



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07 Sep 2011, 6:47 am

could be quite useful and insightful.... hard to know how much use it would get though


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07 Sep 2011, 9:34 am

btbnnyr wrote:
I am wondering if there would be any interest in a sub-forum devoted to autism research.

I don't know if I'm supposed to ask the mods about this, but I thought I'd gauge interest first.

In the sub-forum, I am envisioning people posting threads discussing research articles. One thread per article, examining the research assumptions and interpretations to determine if the findings make sense from both the NT and autistic perspectives. Questioning assumptions and making alternative interpretations if necessary. The same data can often be interpreted in different ways, depending on who is doing the interpreting. Even more so when the data comes out of and makes conclusions about brrrainzzz.

I know that autism research is often brought up in the general discussion, but I would like to see a sub-forum for it, so the research can be discussed in excruciating detail for its own sake, out of the context of other discussions involving personal agendas or opinions. More like an autistic search for truth, hypersystemizing totally included. Is anyone else interested in this sub-forum? What say the mods?


Oh yes, I'd be interested. Objective/Scientific data and research on autism provides a level of insight, clarity and rigor that everyday type of discussions seem to be lacking in, as is common in the General forums.



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07 Sep 2011, 10:43 am

1 more vote to do it, it should get used, relevant threads are often started in this section but are quickly lost in the see of posts.


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