New York Magazine Takes On Autism
New York Magazine takes on Asperger’s and the autism spectrum. Enlightening? Offensive? A not-too-surprising view of how the rest of the world sees “us?” Let me know what you think . .
.http://nymag.com/news/features/autism-spectrum-2012-11/
(c) 2007-2011 John Elder Robison
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John Elder Robison is an autistic adult and advocate for people with neurological differences. He’s the author of Look Me in the Eye, Be Different, Raising Cubby, and Switched On. He serves on the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee of the US Dept of Health and Human Services and many other autism-related boards. He co-founded the TCS Auto Program (A school for teens with developmental challenges) and he’s the Neurodiversity Scholar in Residence at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia and an advisor to the Neurodiversity Institute at Landmark College in Putney, Vermont.
The opinions expressed here are his own. There is no warranty expressed or implied. While reading this essay will give you food for thought, actually printing and eating it may make you sick.
The opinions expressed here are his own. There is no warranty expressed or implied. While reading this essay will give you food for thought, actually printing and eating it may make you sick.
The author makes it very clear that:
1) Autism is very real.
2) Asperger’s is very real.
3) This article is not about the very real people who really have autism and Asperger’s – it’s about the armchair diagnoses running rampant.
As the author says at http://nymag.com/news/features/autism-spectrum-2012-11/index1.html ,
“…But this is not a story about Asperger’ s, autism, or the spectrum—those very real afflictions that can bring untold hardship to the people who suffer from them and to their families. It is, instead, a story about “Asperger’s,” “autism,” and “the spectrum”—our one-stop-shopping shorthand for the jerky husband, the socially inept plutocrat, the tactless boss, the child prodigy with no friends, the remorseless criminal. It’ s about the words we deploy to describe some murky hybrid of egghead and aloof….” (emphasis added)
I don’t put much stock into what magazines like this one have to say. Autism and Asperger’s is very real.
the only thing u need to know abot autism is three words: Christian Weston Chandler. lulz, he’s the most famouse typical autist of modern times.
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