within a few feet of myself today for first time. I'm what you call a "Numanoid" from long before his comeback and way back to Tubeway Army and while I don't own all the albums, I've got a lot of his music....I mean, I felt something before he came out Aspergers too that he was playing my chord ( Read more... )

John Elder Robison, author of Look Me In The Eye:My Life With Asperger's, has been appointed to the Scientific Advisory and Scientific Treatment Board of Autism Speaks.On the one hand, I'm glad they are consulting with, and taking seriously, an actual autistic. On the other hand, I think they mistreat autistics and misportray them constantly in the ( Read more... )

This item is a mixed bag, but I encourage people to focus on the big picture rather than on problematic details ( Read more... )

I know some of you like to keep tabs on celebrities/artists with ASDs, so I thought I'd alert you to Ladyhawke. She's a singer-songwriter from New Zealand, currently being promoted quite heavily in the UK. Her music is 80s-style elcetropop www.myspace.com/ladyhawkerock

This is a link to an article which profiles her. I like the way it discusses ( Read more... )

OK, in order to be diagnosed with Asperger's someone has to have at least a normal to above average I.Q. I have heard that many geniuses like Franklin, Edison, and Einstein had some autistic traits. Maybe even da vinci too. I have thought that maybe in a sense, Asperger's is like a gift? The "disorder" can sometimes cause us to do some great ( Read more... )

Here is my post developed from Murray's Representing Autismabout autism rights and the portrayal of autistics in fiction and non-fiction:
http://alchemia.livejournal.com/400145.html

I do wonder though

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I have a report to write for psychology 101, and I am thinking of doing it on the link between Genius and Autism seeing as how the world's greatest minds have pretty much all been posthumously diagnosed with Asperger's. I am finding articles here or there, but most say exactly the same thing in different wording: Great minds like Einstein and ( Read more... )

http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Rec/rec.music.dylan/2008-09/msg01180.htmlRead more... )

In discussion with a friend over a review of "The Fountainhead," in which the friend points out that the author never deals with the realistic consequences of bareback sex - as if either they never occurred to her or as if she found them irrelevant, it came to me "Rand had no Theory of Mind whatsoever," flash-followed by an indignant "She did SO! A ( Read more... )