Re: Thanks, Tim

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Tim, I like your list -- thanks. Of course, experience helps, but I wanted to learn from your experience, rather than have to wait to acquire my own! Of course, I have expreience, too- but want to get things to work better, without being lucky! I will check out these websites! Avoiding a name works well- until, as you have stated, you are actually accountable to know what was said. i have been there too many times! My dad has used the strategy of avoiding their names, and just engaging them in conversation till they give up who they are by a contextual clue- and it never bothers him that he might be expected to know who they are. Of course, he is NS, so maybe he is more certain of himself in letting that social side compensate, here. > > > I had not heard of this "Harvard study" about making lists, but I> > would not be surprised of there were an urban legend like this one.> > I actually thought that making things-to-do lists was more of an NT> > thing, though I still make them. As for other kinds of lists, again,> > I do not know of this as being specific to one group or the other.> > Here is a piece http://www.amquix.info/yale_goal_study.html> > Been suggested there is some kind of Harvard / Yale denigration going > on. We have the same thing here between Oxford and Cambridge... I have > no idea why alphabetical order is rarely used for those two names!> > Or a self helper on self help is no good> http://www.psychotherapy.net/article/Self_Help_Snake_Oil> > Fascinating piece I came across a while ago which I take to be true. > Whistle blow by an ex self help book employee that the majority > customers are previous buyers. Go figure.> > > How do you ask for help with an "easy" things, and get a helpful> > response? Here are examples.> > > > (1) Recognizing someone. (Are there

any other faceblind folk on this> > list? About 2% opf non-spectrum people are faceblind, too!)> > You avoid their name?> Panic if you can't find the person too.> > It has been realised but taken as funny, such as you did know who you > were talking to? No.> > Seems to affect many people in varying degrees. I expect a lot of us go > on hair, clothes, mannerism etc. none of which are face recognition.> > And then how must it be for the blind?> That is whole area where I think some useful research could be done. The > degree of sight deficiency varies a lot amongst the classified blind but > most must have severely restricted non-verbal. How does efficacy at > non-verbal contrast between Autistic and normal clinical unsighted?> > As an aside, I recall some time ago hearing of a tribunal which found > against a boy and

his mother where he is spectrum. The published ruling > made it obvious the chairman was clueless, saying that the boy was not > blind or deaf... said as a throw away to mean that there was no damn > obvious problem.> > In fact we are blind and deaf, neither of which are total in most people > classified thus, so it is a mistake to assume there is no disability. > The vision system must include the brain responding normally.> > A nice example of how complex this is, but also an accepted situation, > there are brain damaged where they can see but the connection to the > .

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