I have an obsession with the question of empathy After a two-year quest to get the book in a suitable format, I have just finished the well-known book by Simon Baron Cohen, dealing with the subject and the temperatures are chilly, just like the weather at present. He says that “people with Asperger’s are zero […]
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How Far Should You Go? Working out how far you should go, whether other people mean what they say and how far they should go before you take offence is a nightmare so would you like this? I didn’t and my friend didn’t either.Her support worker noticed that K, or as her parents call her,
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The joke goes: “How do you get down from an elephant’s back?” The answer is that you don’t because you get down from a duck’s back. When the savvy blind children told me that when I was one of them out in the playground where I was not one of them, my answer to the
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Years ago there was this lovely song by Long Dancer, called: “If it was so simple”. No smart people with Asperger’s doesn’t ask themselves why they perseverate, though they may not know the name for it but may ask instead: “Why can’t I forget an upsetting comment quickly and brush it off like a fly
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Extreme Verbosity. Very wearing so why don’t you stop doing it? This is one of the most unfortunate Asperger’s traits but it’s a fact that I can talk for Britain, the world and the universe. I used to put it down to blindness since words are all I have but not to take your heart
This is a comment from a support worker who went to my friend, K and she told me about this. I can see what was meant by this but don’t necessarily think this is the case. We know now that vaccinations are not the cause of autism so what is? For one thing Asperger’s Syndrome
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