http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind-guest-blog/2013/07/08/oops-when-autism-isnt-autistic-disorder-hyperlexia-and-einstein-syndrome/TLDR version: kids who show hyperlexia (reading early) or Einstein Syndrome (speaking late) often get diagnosed as on the spectrum, when in fact these things are isolated: they're then claimed to have "grown out" ( Read more... )

I guess another part of the reason I haven't posted in this forum in a long time is that I've been uncertain how and to what degree I still identify with the Aspie community. I mean, I was pretty much raised to identify with my diagnosis; I knew about it since my early teens; I've made part of my living off of it, and it's a part of every big ( Read more... )

I apologise in advance for the rant, but this has been bothering me for a while and I think it might resonate with a number of people in this community ( Read more... )

I was just checking my e-mail, and on the page that pops up telling me how many unread e-mails I have, Yahoo! lists articles that are supposedly of interest to me. (No idea how it picks what it thinks I'd be interested in, but there's always articles listed, and sometimes they are interesting.) One of the articles this time, though, wasn't so ( Read more... )