12-09-2007, 07:09 PM
An account of Autism in Sweden.
I was at a dinner last night and sat a long time just listening to the conversations, cutting in briefly... One of the many unknown people that was there turned out to be working with troubled kids (teenagers I think) from a therapeutic stand point so I asked if she had like a set form she was working from (I couldn't find the right words for my question) and she described how she worked, so I went on and said that some problems might be because of a different neurology...
... what I meant was if she took into consideration that some persons behave or think in a specific way because their brains are wired differently, explicitly mentioning the Autism spectrum...
... and she said that when it came to persons that could have Autism it was more a question of educating the parents about the condition and stress that there really were nothing wrong with their kids and that the problems were probably caused by the stress from not knowing what was going on. Learning that the underlying reasons could be that their kid was on the Autism spectrum was something of a relief to all parties.
She was curious about the "the special interest" stereotype, asking if I had any of those, or what I thought about it... it was kind of hard to concentrate as there were a lot of talking going on in the room... I'm thinking of trying to get back to her and ask if she wants to continue the discussion...
I was at a dinner last night and sat a long time just listening to the conversations, cutting in briefly... One of the many unknown people that was there turned out to be working with troubled kids (teenagers I think) from a therapeutic stand point so I asked if she had like a set form she was working from (I couldn't find the right words for my question) and she described how she worked, so I went on and said that some problems might be because of a different neurology...
... what I meant was if she took into consideration that some persons behave or think in a specific way because their brains are wired differently, explicitly mentioning the Autism spectrum...
... and she said that when it came to persons that could have Autism it was more a question of educating the parents about the condition and stress that there really were nothing wrong with their kids and that the problems were probably caused by the stress from not knowing what was going on. Learning that the underlying reasons could be that their kid was on the Autism spectrum was something of a relief to all parties.
She was curious about the "the special interest" stereotype, asking if I had any of those, or what I thought about it... it was kind of hard to concentrate as there were a lot of talking going on in the room... I'm thinking of trying to get back to her and ask if she wants to continue the discussion...