Recently I replied to a thread about tech being all pervasive in today's society, so this has been in my mind lately.
So as it happened I was watching the tellie this afternoon, something I don't usually do these days, and there was some panel show on in which they were discussing how children now being diagnosed with Aspergers may be receiving a wrong diagnosis due to being bought up with a disconnectedness brought on by saturation point immersion in modern technology.
They said that children are losing the ability to recognize facial expressions and that only over the top displays of emotion will register with them due to the emotional impact of such displays and not the associated expressions. Their [essentially] cyber-nanny upbringing is isolating them now more than ever from the regular interaction so crucial to today's interpersonal relationships in school, family and society, "In a sense, what we are seeing is younger people who are more savvy with technology than with communicating face to face" one panel member said.
This to me seems like something that is increasingly getting recognition as a genuine phenomenon and could explain the absorption of the official Aspergers diagnosis into autism, because, when is Aspergers not Aspergers? When it's this new thing which is some kind of techno-disconnection syndrome...
So as it happened I was watching the tellie this afternoon, something I don't usually do these days, and there was some panel show on in which they were discussing how children now being diagnosed with Aspergers may be receiving a wrong diagnosis due to being bought up with a disconnectedness brought on by saturation point immersion in modern technology.
They said that children are losing the ability to recognize facial expressions and that only over the top displays of emotion will register with them due to the emotional impact of such displays and not the associated expressions. Their [essentially] cyber-nanny upbringing is isolating them now more than ever from the regular interaction so crucial to today's interpersonal relationships in school, family and society, "In a sense, what we are seeing is younger people who are more savvy with technology than with communicating face to face" one panel member said.
This to me seems like something that is increasingly getting recognition as a genuine phenomenon and could explain the absorption of the official Aspergers diagnosis into autism, because, when is Aspergers not Aspergers? When it's this new thing which is some kind of techno-disconnection syndrome...