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06 Jan 2012, 10:32 am

on december 28th, 2011 the most significant autism psychologist of denmark, Demetrious Haracopos, sadly died at age 71.

this wonderful greek/american empathic human, who chose denmark to be his home, will be missed a lot among all who have met him and benefitted form his knowledge and wisdom.

some of his knowledge will live on in the books he wrote about autism.


R.I.P. Demetrious Haracopos, thanx for all. :cry:



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06 Jan 2012, 11:01 am

I don't know what's appropriate to say, so I'd just say I feel with you. Hope his work will live on.


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06 Jan 2012, 11:02 am

What exactly did he do?


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06 Jan 2012, 2:41 pm

@Ganondox:

think of him as being the greek/american/danish "tony attwood"… a pioneer for the last 3-4 decades in understanding autism.



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06 Jan 2012, 3:56 pm

RIP to a great man.


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06 Jan 2012, 7:14 pm

He died the same day as my dad over five years ago. A day after my birthday, eerie.

R.I.P Demetrious.


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