Re: Re: Roche has signed an agreement with Seaside Therapeutics to develop new treatment

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helen_foisy wrote:

> Good morning Bill, I realized my question was a tall order and not

> one that you may be able to answer fully right away but I thank you

> for your response. I will reply to this post when I'm done in the

> garden. We have a severe thunderstorm watch in effect so I wanna

> protect my precious peppers (all kinds of hot ones mmmmmm back

> soon! - Helen

No hurry, Helen. Gives me the opportunity of sending a small additional

thought:

Consider the striking similarities between " giftedness " criteria

(Silverman's anyway), and the DSM-IV criteria for Asperger/autism.

But for the " gifted " among us being relatively docile, and the

Aspergians so often otherwise, both these " other than normal "

*cognitive* conditions easily might be considered the same.

Personally, I believe they often are.

Remember too that *both* Kanner and Asperger early on thought their

patients had something to offer the world. Neither was entirely

negative in their prognoses.

That was left to Bettelheim, who *really* " did a job " on autistics -

setting the stage for decades of the disability model's primacy, ...and

the self-blinding attitudes of its followers.

Finally, I actually may have been the first one with academic

credentials to discard the " autism as disability " model in print.

Internet " print " anyway.

But I'm no longer alone. t Mottron's recent statements

(Nature, and elsewhere) exactly mirror my feelings, and for similar reasons.

- Bill ...AS

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WD " Bill " Loughman - Berkeley, California USA

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