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What if there was a strategy to turn around the attitude towards autism?

What if I had such a strategy? Would you listen to me?

If you want to have more details please answer

yes.

Go on then, I'm listening.

Thanks,

Firstly I should introduce myself better, my name is Dennis Prichard and I have for the past three or four years been developing an optimized program for teaching normal children English as a foreign language.

I've been doing this on my own and learned quite a bit outside the orthodox view of how languages are learnt.

It has come to my attention that the standard theory of language namely linguistics that is fraudulent in nature.

Namely the theory of language linguistics created by Noam Chomsky.

Having no scientifically sound theory of language has a very strong effect on the diagnosis of mental illness and neurological abnormality.

When I tried to explain the nature of my neurological condition to professionals, I was simply dismissed.
I had autism but I was diagnosed with bi-polar disorder.

The way that people communicate is based on values, and if you try to communicate complex ideas with a professional, they won't listen to you be because the value of their ideas is more than yours.

OK, I'm getting ahead of myself. Sorry I've been engaged with a thirty five year conversation with myself so its left a mark.

I believe that there is a huge gap in our understanding of human language, and I believe that it is the responsability of people in the autistic spectrum to discover this.

Just imagine how "Autism speaks" would react if autistic people were the first group to create a serviceable scientific theory of language and mind.

I have suffered three mental breakdowns in my life.

The second time I was in a psych ward, and the guy that I was bunking with kept saying that a friend of his had "stolen his soul" it really upset him that when he brought this up to the psychiatrist the doctor would simply laugh. any way I spoke with this guy quite a bit learnt about his background and it appeared to me that this friend had "stolen his identity". That's what he wanted say. Language was making the difference between this guy's mental diagnosis, he was probably diagnosed as schizophrenic but actually he was simply in a state where his religious ethnic background from his childhood was in conflict with adult secular life. He needed someone to explain that to him but all he was getting was drugs, and drugs by his admission won't working

He was desperately trying to communicate this to other people but unsuccessfully, it really hurt me to see him in such a state he was a nice unassuming guy. But when I think back to it I was in the same boat trying to communicate my autistic state to others.

Language is so important when describing the state of one's mind, but the poverty of current academic methods means that this gets overlooked.

Noam Chomsky has built a machine for himself an elaborate machine that he is using to confuse and blow smoke in people's faces.

In other "sciences" such as physics for example experts use common language and metaphor to explain their area of study to outsiders.
But not Noam Chomsky's linguistics he immediately starts using abstract academic specific language when describing something that we all have a great deal of experience in.

If you are interested in this, I can send you a link with a video which may give a better picture of what I'm talking about.