Wednesday, 21 November 2012
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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/
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- From: jerobison
- About Me: I'm John Elder Robison, bestselling author, autism advocate, and founder and owner of J E Robison Service Company of Springfield, Massachusetts. I'm the author of Look Me in the Eye (Crown, 2007) which has been published in over 20 editions and is sold in 50 countries worldwide. I am an author, advocate and speaker, a machine aficionado, a photographer, car enthusiast, and small business owner. I have two blogs. The jerobison blog is about Asperger's, writing, and life in general. The Robisonservice blog is about cars, and being a machine aficianado Finally, my blog on Psychology Today talks about life with Asperger's
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I don't put much stock into what magazines like this one have to say. Autism and Asperger's is very real.
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)