......four dreams in The Birdcatcher lead Stone to a revelation about how autistic people have come to exist - to who they really are.
Autism | Is there a real definition of autism?
Recently I've developed an appetite again for reading about autism, but the trouble is that the more I read the more confused I get. Over 70 years since it was 'discovered' there still seems to be no agreement as to what autism is. If you go to the 2013 DSM-5 of the American Psychiatric Association, … Continue reading Autism | Is there a real definition of autism?
Autism | seeing a world other people don’t see | autism in my novel The Birdcatcher
But those Toronto writers weren't finished with just setting me straight about dreams. They also informed me that my novel doesn't work because Chris Stone himself is unreal.
Rescuing the Future | who is Vladimir Putin? Is he on the spectrum?
Yes, I sympathize (a bit) with the way Putin has painted himself into a corner.......
Autism | Restricted activities and interests | What’s wrong with independent thinking?
........ tell a psychologist that you read phone books or dictionaries and they'll start to worry about you
Autism | Isaac Asimov is number one
Because my post Isaac Asimov and the Joys of Autism continues to get more visits than anything else on this site (in fact, the frequency of the visits is increasing, remarkably so this week), I'm going to repeat a delightful anecdote of his, which is in the autobiography published by his wife after his death, … Continue reading Autism | Isaac Asimov is number one
Autism and learning language
I've come to the conclusion that..... vocabulary for speaking, listening, reading, and writing, are in 4 different compartments, with no direct access to each other.
Autism | What Hans Asperger said | people from the past
.....if Hans Asperger were alive today, I think he would be interested in this idea that autism and other problematic versions of the human mind may represent hold-out survivors from the distant past.
Autism | ICD-11 | Is Asperger’s really gone?
I usually say to the child, “Congratulations, you have Asperger’s Syndrome”, .......
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