Nope, can't access that one, a pity!
Wow I've just read it and I found it to be very moving and intelligent. It's an excellent piece and I wish I could write like that.
I am frustrated by my own writing style being far too confrontational and up front than I would prefer.
I feel the author, Amanda Baggs, has a particular talent for expressing sensitive and contentious issues with brilliant imagination, humanity and sensitivity.
I wish I had her talent.
Very nice, and the article it links too is great too. Well worth the read, especially for parents of little autistics.
I am frustrated by my own writing style being far too confrontational and up front than I would prefer.
I am laughing. Not at you, but at the fact that I am always called way too confrontational and up front myself. I'm glad you like that article, although I'm unpleasantly aware of how much unintentional echolalia went into it. (I didn't mean to lift entire phrases off of other people's writing, but I did several times in there.)
Echolalia? Sounds an interesting word, but cannot find in my dictionaries...explanation please?
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Echolalia? Sounds an interesting word, but cannot find in my dictionaries...explanation please?
Quoted from somewhere else:
"Repeating back something said to you. Delayed Echolalia is repeating it later. Both behaviors are found in many autistics. Functional echolalia is using a quoted phrase in a way that has shared meaning, for example, a child who sings the Barney jingle to ask for a Barney videotape, or says "Get your shoes and socks" to ask to go outside."
Hey, I just heard about an amazing new site that lets you kind of search for things...anyone ever heard of it...
It might catch on... :wink:
Ok can I :roll: yet on that one? :lol:
Hey, I just heard about an amazing new site that lets you kind of search for things...anyone ever heard of it...
It might catch on... :wink:
Hasn't Google been around for a couple of years already?
And it has caught on a lot.
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Hasn't Google been around for a couple of years already?
And it has caught on a lot.
Mich, Amy was being sarcastic (in a nice way), she knows that Google is being used for research by most people (actually, I don't know about most people, I use it a lot, though).
One of the residents in the nursing home where I work does something like that, which leads me to wonder if anything else can cause it. She's got some other physical problems (doesn't walk or feed herself), but she makes eye contact and seems NT, except that she doesn't like to be touched. And she doesn't talk except to repeat phrases over and over. "Down to the end of the hall" and "if the shoe fits" are the two that I've heard from her.
I don't have any medical information about her, and I don't deal with her regularly enough to know much about her, so I can't add much other than the fact that AS may not be the only thing that causes echolalia.
She might have Tourette Syndrome, echolalia is one of the possible symptoms. That's why I have no idea whether my echolalia is because of AS or TS, because I have both (and that goes for a lot of things, as in whether something is a stim or a tic, for instance). But not all Aspies avoid eye contact, some have no problem with it.
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! Very funny.