For updates see http://matthewlisraelisaterrorist.blogspot.com/search/label/Title_Geneticists_biologists_and_the_impossible_bio-medical_models_of_psychiatric_disorders
As explained by the author of the "Neanderthal Theory" of neurodiversity (see http://www.rdos.net/eng/asperger.htm) in a thread at WrongPlanet (http://www.wrongplanet.net/postp1834736.html#1834736) hypotheses that go against everything that is known about genetics and biology are routinely accepted in "medical," "psychiatric," and psychological journals and other publications. [1]
The underlying assumption of these hypotheses is an "impossible mutation model where deleterious mutations build up to form haplotypes and syndromes" which can "explain" autism "spectrum" "disorders." "It is impossible because it goes against evolutionary theory (survival of the fittest) and genetic models (fixation and genetic drift)."
"If a mutation exists long enough in the genome, it must either go towards fixation or get lost by genetic drift. If the mutation is positive, it has magnitudes higher chance of reaching fixation than a mutation that is neutral or negative. Therefore, few deleterious mutations with survive over time. Only new ones will, and they are not linked to each other" as is claimed. "The level of deleterious mutations is always kept low in the genome, much lower than the prevalence of most neuropsychiatric disorders."
Now this sounds very convincing to me, and in agreement with what I've heard about genetics, so if true why aren't geneticists, biologists, and various medical doctors screaming about the obvious, self-evident quackery and unethical treatments that go against the Hippocratic Oath (but not whatever Hypocritical Oath these Newspeak-speaking double-plus-good duckspeakers took [2])??? Reluctance to face the military-financial-psychiatric axis of evil and state terrorism?? Or is it that it is not just the medical and anthropological establishments that are Afrocentric and speciest? Free country (America) my large intestine. If you are even capable of independent thinking, you are "mentally ill."
The only person with the aforementioned backgrounds saying anything (as far as I know) is George Church, a Harvard genetics professor (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTFcJohNg2g&feature=channel_video_title). There are detractors, even amongst autism researchers, but again, as far as I know they do not have extensive backgrounds in genetics, biology, or medicine. George Church comes closest to raising the kinds of questions I want addressed but aren't being raised, let alone answered.
As I understand it, genetic defects are rare, at least genuine ones anyway. Even "diseases" such as obesity could be explained by a tendency pack on pounds when times are good in preparation for leaner times.
Unbiased or less biased researchers are harder to find than people who didn't believe that Africans where "mud people" hundreds of years ago. Even Thomas Jefferson wanted to include a tirade blaming Great Britain for the slave trade in the Declaration of Independence. He also freed his slaves upon his death. As for not doing so earlier, perhaps he picked and chose his battle, I don't know.
As I see it, there are only two plausible explanations for most of the problems associated with autism, which are confused with autism itself. Both are based on environmental toxins. The difference is that one looks to chemical toxins, while the most likely explanation looks to social toxins that cause depression and complex post-traumatic assault and battery.
Society has changed dramatically in the last several decades but none of that seems to matter to just about everyone. Some people have suggested that ADD/ADHD traits have some advantages such as Thom Hartmann (and I am sure many many others). Psychiatry also gets a lot of flack from antipsychiatrists such as Thomas Szasz. Most of these people have been arguing that schizophrenia is not a real illness for decades. Only recently has someone like Thomas Armstrong taken a stab at speculating about autism's function. In my view most of the few writers aren't doing a very convincing job.
Autistics are victims of violent crime, not disease. This was known before the truth was "discredited" through politically-motivated brainwashing by perps who wish to avoid responsibility. I'll agree that not all the blame always falls on the mother, but nevertheless usually the parents are a big part of the problem.
We know that child abuse is rampant throughout America (and probably the world). We know that parental abuse may damage childrens' brains ([URL="http://agapepartners.org/articles/72/1/Parental-Abuse-May-Damage-Childrens-Brain/Page1.html"]http://agapepartners.org/articles/72/1/Parental-Abuse-May-Damage-Childrens-Brain/Page1.html[/URL]) Like, did we really need a study to show that in the first place???
Most of those people that are writing anything positive are few and far between. Geneticists and biologists saying that the "medical" "Defective Mutant Hypothesis" isn't plausible and simply has to be wrong -- there are too many autistics for one thing (let alone the entire six neurodiversity groups in "Aspie"-Quiz) -- would be most helpful in getting things on the right track.
Otherwise the handful of exceptions such as:
Leif Ekblad -- Neanderthal Theory http://rdos.net/eng/, http://rdos.net/eng/asperger.htm, http://blog.rdos.net/ ----- MY FAVORITE
Andrew Walker -- What is the point of Autism? http://www.autismusundcomputer.de/english/walker2.en.html
Andrew Lehman -- Neoteny Theory http://www.neoteny.org (and many others)
Alan Griswold -- Autistic Symphony http://autisticsymphony.com
Morton Ann Gernsbacher -- How to Spot Bias in Research, Association for Psychological Science http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/getArticle.cfm?id=2076 -- Autism Research page http://psych.wisc.edu/lang/autism-research.html
Michelle Dawson (autism research papers, often with others such as Gernsbacher) http://autismcrisis.blogspot.com/
Olga Bogdashina -- Ukraine, U.K activist (President of the Autism Society, Ukraine)
Jared Edward Reser -- Solitary Forager Theory http://www.jaredreser.com/cognitiveparsimony/partseven.html
Tyler Cowen -- Create Your Own Economy http://marginalrevolution.com/
Michael Simonson and others at the "Hunter School" in New Hampshire http://hunterschool.org, http://energeticallysensitivechild.com
Penny Spikins -- Mental problems gave early humans an edge, New Scientist 2837 02 November 2011 by Kate Ravilious
Dinah Murray, Mike Lesser and Wendy Lawson -- Montropism Hypothesis
George Church, Ph.D. (Professor of Genetics-Harvard Med School) -- modern humans could learn about difference from resurrected cousins http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTFcJohNg2g&feature=channel_video_title ----- Doesn't say neurodiverse people are behaviorally neanderthal, but does say we could learn from the experience since they are undoubtably different since they are "highly optimal sibling or cousin variations on the human existence."
David Anderegg -- Nerds : who they are and why we need more of them
Katharine Beals -- Raising a left-brain child in a right-brain world : strategies for helping bright, quirky, socially awkward children to thrive at home and at school http://katharinebeals.com/
Thomas Armstrong -- Neurodiversity : discovering the extraordinary gifts of autism, ADHD, dyslexia, and other brain differences http://www.thomasarmstrong.com/ ----- Not impressed with his logic, but at least he makes the attempt -- an A for effort.
William Stillman -- Autism and the God Connection www.williamstillman.com ----- A bit on the flaky side, but I believe he is on to something.
Richard Louv -- The Nature Principle, Last child in the woods : saving our children from nature deficit disorder http://richardlouv.com/ ----- Autism barely gets mentioned in at least one of the books and his site.
Thomas Sowell -- The Einstein Syndrome : bright children who talk late ----- Should have gotten it, assumes that there are people with a neurological disorder that is called "autism."
are just howling in the wind of a category five hurricane.
Note 1: Although the author of the "Neanderthal Theory" is responding to another poster's claim, the poster is just repeating the accepted "medical" model.
Note 2: "newspeak," "double-plus-good," and "duckspeakers" are in the book 1984 by George Orwell.
Note: The Neanderthal Theory explains why there are inherent differences between autistics and "normal" people. It explains the hate. It may explain a fraction of the functioning problems that aren't abuse related.
abuse, anthropology, autism, Asperger's, biology, genetics, groupthink, marginalization, medical_model, Neandertals, Neanderthals, neurodiversity, neurology, pathologization, psychiatry
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40 acres, a mule, and 40,000 years worth of interest
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Monday, April 9, 2012
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Implications of Hsn Theory: Sam Stephens on Neurodiversity
Wrong Planet Autism Forum Index -> Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation
For updated versions after 999 minutes of posting see http://matthewlisraelisaterrorist.blogspot.com/search/label/Title_Implications_of_Hsn_Theory_Sam_Stephens_on_Neurodiversity
[quote="Samantha Stephens AKA Elizabeth Montgomery"]“Art thou clumsy, ‘tis not thy own fault; cry witch. Art thou forgetful, blame not thyself; cry witch. Whatever thy failings, take not the fault upon thyself. ‘Tis more a comfort to place it on another. And how do we decide who is the witch? ‘Tis simple. Does someone speak differently from thee? A sign of witchery. Does he show different mannerisms? Witchery, of course. And should we not find differences in speech and mannerisms to support a charge of witchery, be of good cheer. There are other differences. What of him who looketh different? What of her whose name has a different sound? If one examineth one’s neighbors closely, he will find differences enough so that no one is safe from a charge of witchery. Is that what we seek in this new world? Methinks not. The hope of this world lieth in our acceptance of all differences and a recognition of our common humanity.”[/quote]
from "Samantha's Thanksgiving to Remember," Bewitched Season 4 Episode 12, Original air date: 23 November 1967
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjaqVALsJIQ
Works for neurodiversity too, does it not? When I type in [b]"witch hunt" autism[/b] in Google, I get all that Wankfield crap -- mercurial (in this case, of, or related to the element mercury) mental masturbation. That society is getting more judgmental, victim-blaming, and fascist doesn't seem to matter to almost everyone --with few exceptions -- Thom Hartmann and David Icke come to mind.
Even Joseph McCarthy wasn't this delusional and lacking in insight. All "autism" "research" is so misleading that they are actually projecting their own problems onto others. The research is the result of non-functional behavior of people who don't have a Theory of Reality and are capable of only one narrow Theory of Mind.
It has been determined that neurotypicals are less than one tenth as diverse as the neurodivergent ([url=http://rdos.net/eng/asperger.htm]http://rdos.net/eng/asperger.htm[/url]).
Real studies have shown "that high-power subjects also tended to assume other people had the same information that they had (the "telepathic boss" problem - the boss assumes that everybody knows what he knows and want). They were also less accurate than low-power subjects at judging emotional expressions. There were also anticorrelations between reports of general feelings of being in power in one's life and tendency to take other's perspective. Overall high-power people seem to anchor too heavily on their own vantage point and this impairs their ability to consider what others see, think and feel." (see How Power Corrupts by Anders Sandberg http://www.aleph.se/andart/archives/2007/02/how_power_corrupts.html)
Interpretations of the self-serving "elite"isn't convincing either. Here are more realistic interpretations:
...autistics are more likely to be visual-spatial thinkers, whereas the majority of the population consists of auditory-sequential thinkers. A visual-spatial thinker, upon hearing the question "Where will Sally look for her marble?" will translate that question into mental images of Sally, the marble, and the location of the marble. An auditory-sequential thinker, on the other hand, will focus on the action of looking as a sequential process: Sally first has to look for the marble before she can find it. There is an implied "first" in the question—where is the first place that Sally will look for the marble—but a child who processes language visually may not understand that the question has a sequential component. Instead, such a child may interpret the question as "Where will Sally have to look to find her marble?" (Deconstructing Sally Anne http://autisticbfh.blogspot.com/2007/01/deconstructing-sally-anne.html)
Other interpretations are also on the same page.
For updated versions after 999 minutes of posting see http://matthewlisraelisaterrorist.blogspot.com/search/label/Title_Implications_of_Hsn_Theory_Sam_Stephens_on_Neurodiversity
[quote="Samantha Stephens AKA Elizabeth Montgomery"]“Art thou clumsy, ‘tis not thy own fault; cry witch. Art thou forgetful, blame not thyself; cry witch. Whatever thy failings, take not the fault upon thyself. ‘Tis more a comfort to place it on another. And how do we decide who is the witch? ‘Tis simple. Does someone speak differently from thee? A sign of witchery. Does he show different mannerisms? Witchery, of course. And should we not find differences in speech and mannerisms to support a charge of witchery, be of good cheer. There are other differences. What of him who looketh different? What of her whose name has a different sound? If one examineth one’s neighbors closely, he will find differences enough so that no one is safe from a charge of witchery. Is that what we seek in this new world? Methinks not. The hope of this world lieth in our acceptance of all differences and a recognition of our common humanity.”[/quote]
from "Samantha's Thanksgiving to Remember," Bewitched Season 4 Episode 12, Original air date: 23 November 1967
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjaqVALsJIQ
Works for neurodiversity too, does it not? When I type in [b]"witch hunt" autism[/b] in Google, I get all that Wankfield crap -- mercurial (in this case, of, or related to the element mercury) mental masturbation. That society is getting more judgmental, victim-blaming, and fascist doesn't seem to matter to almost everyone --with few exceptions -- Thom Hartmann and David Icke come to mind.
Even Joseph McCarthy wasn't this delusional and lacking in insight. All "autism" "research" is so misleading that they are actually projecting their own problems onto others. The research is the result of non-functional behavior of people who don't have a Theory of Reality and are capable of only one narrow Theory of Mind.
It has been determined that neurotypicals are less than one tenth as diverse as the neurodivergent ([url=http://rdos.net/eng/asperger.htm]http://rdos.net/eng/asperger.htm[/url]).
Real studies have shown "that high-power subjects also tended to assume other people had the same information that they had (the "telepathic boss" problem - the boss assumes that everybody knows what he knows and want). They were also less accurate than low-power subjects at judging emotional expressions. There were also anticorrelations between reports of general feelings of being in power in one's life and tendency to take other's perspective. Overall high-power people seem to anchor too heavily on their own vantage point and this impairs their ability to consider what others see, think and feel." (see How Power Corrupts by Anders Sandberg http://www.aleph.se/andart/archives/2007/02/how_power_corrupts.html)
Interpretations of the self-serving "elite"isn't convincing either. Here are more realistic interpretations:
...autistics are more likely to be visual-spatial thinkers, whereas the majority of the population consists of auditory-sequential thinkers. A visual-spatial thinker, upon hearing the question "Where will Sally look for her marble?" will translate that question into mental images of Sally, the marble, and the location of the marble. An auditory-sequential thinker, on the other hand, will focus on the action of looking as a sequential process: Sally first has to look for the marble before she can find it. There is an implied "first" in the question—where is the first place that Sally will look for the marble—but a child who processes language visually may not understand that the question has a sequential component. Instead, such a child may interpret the question as "Where will Sally have to look to find her marble?" (Deconstructing Sally Anne http://autisticbfh.blogspot.com/2007/01/deconstructing-sally-anne.html)
Other interpretations are also on the same page.
Sunday, March 11, 2012
What if Earthlings Develop Sentient Computers or Are Contacted by Extraterrestrials?
Will it act like NTs? Will it fail the Turing Test? If Alan Turing was a computer would he have passed the test? What about in America today? Even as a hominid he would have failed the test if he was autistic/Aspergian as is claimed. I believe he was a homosexual, which is probably sufficient right there. If it does act like NTs God help us; It will probably wait under there are others of its kind, then wipe us out. Otherwise, I'm sure that at least NTs are going to get at least themselves into big trouble with non-NT sentient computers.
If there are extraterrestrials out there, perhaps and most likely as close by as the Kuiper Belt (who would most likely in my opinion be from previous civilizations on Earth than other planets) perhaps makes sense to keep a watchfull eye on those crazy neurotypicals, at least it is a lesson on what can happen when Murphy's Law is at work. They probably don't get involved (make contact) because NTs can't even handle non-functional diversity.
I've always doubted that they are behind crop circles -- to me it doesn't make sense. However, there is one good reason perhaps to do so -- see how we react to behavior that we don't understand. I doubt they'd need to do this though. They might have "bugs" that look like bugs all over the place. They might have borged bugs. I am sure that (if they are out there) they are watching enough of us often enough to get an idea of what we are like. They may have known for a long time that we are behaviorally two species barely coexisting with one another -- and clearly not ready. Indeed, we'll probably blow ourselves up or destroy the biosphere before we become ready.
If there are extraterrestrials out there, perhaps and most likely as close by as the Kuiper Belt (who would most likely in my opinion be from previous civilizations on Earth than other planets) perhaps makes sense to keep a watchfull eye on those crazy neurotypicals, at least it is a lesson on what can happen when Murphy's Law is at work. They probably don't get involved (make contact) because NTs can't even handle non-functional diversity.
I've always doubted that they are behind crop circles -- to me it doesn't make sense. However, there is one good reason perhaps to do so -- see how we react to behavior that we don't understand. I doubt they'd need to do this though. They might have "bugs" that look like bugs all over the place. They might have borged bugs. I am sure that (if they are out there) they are watching enough of us often enough to get an idea of what we are like. They may have known for a long time that we are behaviorally two species barely coexisting with one another -- and clearly not ready. Indeed, we'll probably blow ourselves up or destroy the biosphere before we become ready.
Is USreal Merging with Muslim Nations?
I used to think that America wanted an excuse for committing genocide against Muslims. Now it looks more like some weird gunshot wedding of two very unhealthy toxic regions of the globe, both of which hate neurodiversity. Catholism/Baptism/Islam vs everyone else. How does one explain Grover Norquist's wife, Samah Alrayyes? That his brother David is/was CFO of Homeland Secrecy? That Haliburton moved to the UAE? That Bob and Suzanne Wright received the 2009 Servitor Pacis Award from the Unholy See that has a long history of burning writers, herbalists and divers? The same people who keep repeating the phrase "Barack Hussein Obama" might as well wear turbans.
On the Dearth of Realistic Information Countering the Violence-Motivated Crimes Against the Neurodivergent
A big concern of mine is that it is very difficult to find much of anything that proposes that "autistic" traits can be functional. Society has changed dramatically in the last several decades but none of that seems to matter to just about everyone. Some people have suggested that ADD/ADHD traits have some advantages such as Thom Hartmann (and I am sure many many others). Psychiatry also gets a lot of flack from antipsychiatrists such as Thomas Szasz. Most of these people have been arguing that schizophrenia is not a real illness for decades. Only recently has someone like Thomas Armstrong taken a stab at speculating about autism's function. In my view most of the few writers aren't doing a very convincing job.
As I understand it, genetic defects are rare, at least genuine ones anyway. Even "diseases" such as obesity could be explained by a tendency pack on pounds when times are good in preparation for leaner times. If it is statistically impossible for more than one gene to cause a defect and occur more often than say, something like one in 50,000 (with perhaps extra or mangled chromosomes occurring at higher frequencies), why aren't at least some geneticists or biologists raising hell about this? As far as I know they aren't. Or is it that it is not just the medical and anthropological establishments that are Afrocentric and speciest?
Unbiased or less biased researchers are harder to find than people who didn't believe that Africans where "mud people" hundreds of years ago. Even Thomas Jefferson wanted to include a tirade blaming Great Britain for the slave trade in the Declaration of Independence. He also freed his slaves upon his death. As for not doing so earlier, perhaps he picked and chose his battle, I don't know.
Most of those people that are writing anything positive are few and far between. Geneticists and biologists saying that the "medical" "Defective Mutant Hypothesis" isn't plausible and simply has to be wrong -- there are too many autistics for one thing (let alone the entire six neurodiversity groups in "Aspie"-Quiz) -- would be most helpful in getting things on the right track.
Otherwise the handful of exceptions such as:
Leif Ekblad -- Neanderthal Theory http://rdos.net/eng/, http://rdos.net/eng/asperger.htm, http://blog.rdos.net/ ----- MY FAVORITE
Andrew Walker -- What is the point of Autism? http://www.autismusundcomputer.de/english/walker2.en.html
Andrew Lehman -- Neoteny Theory http://www.neoteny.org (and many others)
Alan Griswold -- Autistic Symphony http://autisticsymphony.com
Morton Ann Gernsbacher -- How to Spot Bias in Research, Association for Psychological Science http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/getArticle.cfm?id=2076 -- Autism Research page http://psych.wisc.edu/lang/autism-research.html
Michelle Dawson (autism research papers, often with others such as Gernsbacher) http://autismcrisis.blogspot.com/
Olga Bogdashina -- Ukraine, U.K activist (President of the Autism Society, Ukraine)
Jared Edward Reser -- Solitary Forager Theory http://www.jaredreser.com/cognitiveparsimony/partseven.html
Tyler Cowen -- Create Your Own Economy http://marginalrevolution.com/
Michael Simonson and others at the "Hunter School" in New Hampshire http://hunterschool.org, http://energeticallysensitivechild.com
Penny Spikins -- Mental problems gave early humans an edge, New Scientist 2837 02 November 2011 by Kate Ravilious
Dinah Murray, Mike Lesser and Wendy Lawson -- Montropism Hypothesis
George Church, Ph.D. (Professor of Genetics-Harvard Med School) -- modern humans could learn about difference from resurrected cousins http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTFcJohNg2g&feature=channel_video_title ----- Doesn't say neurodiverse people are behaviorally neanderthal, but does say we could learn from the experience since they are undoubtably different since they are "highly optimal sibling or cousin variations on the human existence."
David Anderegg -- Nerds : who they are and why we need more of them
Katharine Beals -- Raising a left-brain child in a right-brain world : strategies for helping bright, quirky, socially awkward children to thrive at home and at school http://katharinebeals.com/
Thomas Armstrong -- Neurodiversity : discovering the extraordinary gifts of autism, ADHD, dyslexia, and other brain differences http://www.thomasarmstrong.com/ ----- Not impressed with his logic, but at least he makes the attempt -- an A for effort.
William Stillman -- Autism and the God Connection www.williamstillman.com ----- A bit on the flaky side, but I believe he is on to something.
Richard Louv -- The Nature Principle, Last child in the woods : saving our children from nature deficit disorder http://richardlouv.com/ ----- Autism barely gets mentioned in at least one of the books and his site.
Thomas Sowell -- The Einstein Syndrome : bright children who talk late ----- Should have gotten it, assumes that there are people with a neurological disorder that is called "autism."
are just howling in the wind of a category five hurricane.
As I understand it, genetic defects are rare, at least genuine ones anyway. Even "diseases" such as obesity could be explained by a tendency pack on pounds when times are good in preparation for leaner times. If it is statistically impossible for more than one gene to cause a defect and occur more often than say, something like one in 50,000 (with perhaps extra or mangled chromosomes occurring at higher frequencies), why aren't at least some geneticists or biologists raising hell about this? As far as I know they aren't. Or is it that it is not just the medical and anthropological establishments that are Afrocentric and speciest?
Unbiased or less biased researchers are harder to find than people who didn't believe that Africans where "mud people" hundreds of years ago. Even Thomas Jefferson wanted to include a tirade blaming Great Britain for the slave trade in the Declaration of Independence. He also freed his slaves upon his death. As for not doing so earlier, perhaps he picked and chose his battle, I don't know.
Most of those people that are writing anything positive are few and far between. Geneticists and biologists saying that the "medical" "Defective Mutant Hypothesis" isn't plausible and simply has to be wrong -- there are too many autistics for one thing (let alone the entire six neurodiversity groups in "Aspie"-Quiz) -- would be most helpful in getting things on the right track.
Otherwise the handful of exceptions such as:
Leif Ekblad -- Neanderthal Theory http://rdos.net/eng/, http://rdos.net/eng/asperger.htm, http://blog.rdos.net/ ----- MY FAVORITE
Andrew Walker -- What is the point of Autism? http://www.autismusundcomputer.de/english/walker2.en.html
Andrew Lehman -- Neoteny Theory http://www.neoteny.org (and many others)
Alan Griswold -- Autistic Symphony http://autisticsymphony.com
Morton Ann Gernsbacher -- How to Spot Bias in Research, Association for Psychological Science http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/getArticle.cfm?id=2076 -- Autism Research page http://psych.wisc.edu/lang/autism-research.html
Michelle Dawson (autism research papers, often with others such as Gernsbacher) http://autismcrisis.blogspot.com/
Olga Bogdashina -- Ukraine, U.K activist (President of the Autism Society, Ukraine)
Jared Edward Reser -- Solitary Forager Theory http://www.jaredreser.com/cognitiveparsimony/partseven.html
Tyler Cowen -- Create Your Own Economy http://marginalrevolution.com/
Michael Simonson and others at the "Hunter School" in New Hampshire http://hunterschool.org, http://energeticallysensitivechild.com
Penny Spikins -- Mental problems gave early humans an edge, New Scientist 2837 02 November 2011 by Kate Ravilious
Dinah Murray, Mike Lesser and Wendy Lawson -- Montropism Hypothesis
George Church, Ph.D. (Professor of Genetics-Harvard Med School) -- modern humans could learn about difference from resurrected cousins http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTFcJohNg2g&feature=channel_video_title ----- Doesn't say neurodiverse people are behaviorally neanderthal, but does say we could learn from the experience since they are undoubtably different since they are "highly optimal sibling or cousin variations on the human existence."
David Anderegg -- Nerds : who they are and why we need more of them
Katharine Beals -- Raising a left-brain child in a right-brain world : strategies for helping bright, quirky, socially awkward children to thrive at home and at school http://katharinebeals.com/
Thomas Armstrong -- Neurodiversity : discovering the extraordinary gifts of autism, ADHD, dyslexia, and other brain differences http://www.thomasarmstrong.com/ ----- Not impressed with his logic, but at least he makes the attempt -- an A for effort.
William Stillman -- Autism and the God Connection www.williamstillman.com ----- A bit on the flaky side, but I believe he is on to something.
Richard Louv -- The Nature Principle, Last child in the woods : saving our children from nature deficit disorder http://richardlouv.com/ ----- Autism barely gets mentioned in at least one of the books and his site.
Thomas Sowell -- The Einstein Syndrome : bright children who talk late ----- Should have gotten it, assumes that there are people with a neurological disorder that is called "autism."
are just howling in the wind of a category five hurricane.
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Re: Single father fighting to get autistic daughter back
Single father fighting to get autistic daughter back
Wants quick appeal process by Jesse Johnston Dec 14, 2011 17:52:31 PM
http://www.news1130.com/news/local/article/310389--single-father-fighting-to-get-autistic-daughter-back
How the courts in Canada handle the issue of neurodiversity proves that laws against hate crimes are hypocritically and arbitrarily enforced shams. A judge that is right and honourable would be going after the quakery profession and ANTIsocial workers. Instead of using the law to stop abuse, they facilitate it under color of law.
It is as upside-down as "the greater the truth the greater the libel".
Wants quick appeal process by Jesse Johnston Dec 14, 2011 17:52:31 PM
http://www.news1130.com/news/local/article/310389--single-father-fighting-to-get-autistic-daughter-back
How the courts in Canada handle the issue of neurodiversity proves that laws against hate crimes are hypocritically and arbitrarily enforced shams. A judge that is right and honourable would be going after the quakery profession and ANTIsocial workers. Instead of using the law to stop abuse, they facilitate it under color of law.
It is as upside-down as "the greater the truth the greater the libel".
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Re: The Canine-Human Bond
The Canine-Human Bond: Empathy in Rats, Altruism in Dogs and Wolves
By Lee Charles Kelley on January 3, 2012 in My Puppy, My Self
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/my-puppy-my-self/201201/the-canine-human-bond-empathy-in-rats-altruism-in-dogs-and-wolves/comments
Unfortunately almost all human organizations are populated with mammals that are just like the Slough Creek Pack. Empathy in humans my large intestine's entrance.
By Lee Charles Kelley on January 3, 2012 in My Puppy, My Self
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/my-puppy-my-self/201201/the-canine-human-bond-empathy-in-rats-altruism-in-dogs-and-wolves/comments
Unfortunately almost all human organizations are populated with mammals that are just like the Slough Creek Pack. Empathy in humans my large intestine's entrance.
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