May 31, 2004
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Aperger's linkage:
The Asperger's Express: Education and activism site, created by a family with an AS daughter. I got to it through this page, 'Restraints and Aversives,' which is concerned with restraining techniques and punishments used on developmentally disabled folks. The article paints a dark picture of what amounts to torture of the disabled.
The rest of the site is considerably more upbeat. I mean, how could it not be? It mainly talks about advocacy for autistic children by parents. This page, dealing with 'inclusion' in public schools is well worth reading, even simply as a critique of public schools in general.
The Express' links page reminded me of some good stuff by the irrepressible Amanda Baggs, and the always interesting Temple Grandin.
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I can't quite imagine Temple Grandin's thought process, although she describes it well.
That whole 'thinking in pictures' thing is kind of misleading. Lots of AS folks don't actually think in pictures. I think in terms of abstract shapes and motion, and also specific 'photographic' memory, but what matters is what I can squeeze all that into language and expression in the world. Same for Dr. Grandin, as far as I'm concerned.
ok, this might just be me being ignorant... but there are people who only think in language out there?
...huh?
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