Has anyone read this book? It is written by Temple Grandin and Sean Barron. What puzzles me is that several times in the book (pages 79-80), Sean (presumably Sean since a male is speaking) uses phrases such as "my emergence from autism"...."during my years of recovery from autism"...."when I had autism"... "though I would never wish to return to an autistic state".
I haven't read the entire book. Just browsed pages that were available online. I'm confused. Do the authors (Temple Grandin & Sean Barron) present Sean as being "cured" of autism?
http://books.google.com/books?id=ZPs8K85...2w#PPP1,M1
I wonder what "autism" Sean supposedly recovered from then.
It probably just means he has improved himself, like me and my father did.
I guess it is recovery.
I just know that Temple Gardin has made her special interest into work she has highly proffited from.
It probably just means he has improved himself, like me and my father did.
I guess it is recovery.
I guess I recovered from being an adolescent by getting older 
Actually, the book seems to have some good information. Other people have tried to tell me in a different but I didn't really "get" it. I'll probably buy the book.
Well it's just like with me; back when I was a toddler I definitely had problems that made me seem legitimately autistic, but presently the problems that I have are almost completely irrelevant to the label. I strongly feel that it would be extremely inappropriate for me to be continued to be labelled "autistic".
The book seems decent for people who (some combination of):
1. Want to know what certain social norms are in certain societies that the authors happen to be familiar with.
2. Are capable of memorizing and implementing these social norms based on primarily verbal instruction, and want to do so.
I admit curiosity about #1 but #2 is not entirely within my reach. Also, I could think of many exceptions to the rules they described, and some points where I think they themselves don't fully understand the rules they're trying to teach.
I do far better learning the spirit of the rules, which I have some hope of following, rather than the letter of the rules, which is very difficult and sometimes physically impossible for me to follow. This book gets more into the letter of the rules.
As for recovery, all he means is he passes really well, from what I've heard.
I know some people who work with autistic or asperger's children. They claim there is no way that I have Asperger's. It is just because I have more than 30 years of experience of being a child with Asperger's that I seem different. I did learn some things in all those years. I still have Asperger's and autism despite their opinion of me.