Hi
I was educated before Autism and dyslexia were too much thought about by ordinary folks, so never been diagnosed as either, although I consider myself both dyslexic and autistic.
I teach woodwork in a small private school, where the majority of our students have Asperger or ADHD diagnoses.
First met people on the spectrum about thirty years ago, through contact with Camphill Places in the UK; so I have friends with classic autism who are now in their forties and early fifties.
I'm not much impressed by academic and clinical thinking about autism. That thinking looks to me like social prejudice: people who think they are not autistic, are drawing a picture of people not like them as far as the drawers are concerned; and I judge that thinking to end up harmful.
colin
I was educated before Autism and dyslexia were too much thought about by ordinary folks, so never been diagnosed as either, although I consider myself both dyslexic and autistic.
I teach woodwork in a small private school, where the majority of our students have Asperger or ADHD diagnoses.
First met people on the spectrum about thirty years ago, through contact with Camphill Places in the UK; so I have friends with classic autism who are now in their forties and early fifties.
I'm not much impressed by academic and clinical thinking about autism. That thinking looks to me like social prejudice: people who think they are not autistic, are drawing a picture of people not like them as far as the drawers are concerned; and I judge that thinking to end up harmful.
colin
