08-18-2007, 12:26 PM
Very nice personal story about Asperger's from Tim Page in this week's New Yorker magazine. I don't think it's available online yet, but here's the abstract: Parallel Play
08-18-2007, 12:26 PM
08-18-2007, 12:28 PM
I forgot to say: he mentions Aspies for Freedom in the article!
08-23-2007, 10:49 PM
The article is online now and it is totally hilarious -- worth the read. I wish I could write like that.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/..._fact_page
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/..._fact_page
08-23-2007, 11:57 PM
Rootman - I pick up that you are able to write with a similar sense of humour.
09-02-2007, 04:12 PM
It is the best autistic autobiographical article I ever read!
11-24-2007, 06:44 PM
I just read it. It's really quite good. I especially like, and relate to, this passage:
“The fact that my understanding of affection, comradeship, and human empathy has been hard-won rather than being wired in from the start does not make these feelings less genuine. I am still friends with most of the people I was friends with thirty years ago, and I worry about them daily (here I concur with Virgil Thomson, who once said that worry was one form of prayer that he found acceptable). My intimates, new and old, are permanent fixtures in my experience, and that some of them—too many—are no longer living has not diminished my devotion.”
“The fact that my understanding of affection, comradeship, and human empathy has been hard-won rather than being wired in from the start does not make these feelings less genuine. I am still friends with most of the people I was friends with thirty years ago, and I worry about them daily (here I concur with Virgil Thomson, who once said that worry was one form of prayer that he found acceptable). My intimates, new and old, are permanent fixtures in my experience, and that some of them—too many—are no longer living has not diminished my devotion.”