This is quite a challenge since Autism Spectrum Rights has been going on for maybe only the last five years and primarily just in the UK.
Your thoughts please.
Your thoughts please.
Bettelheim was a rage-oholic. Straight up. Plus, he did not have the credentials he allowed other people to think he had.http://articles.chicagotribune.com/...onia-shankman-orthogenic-school-animal-terror
``I read Charlie`s article,`` Sanders says, ``and I said to myself: `But everybody knew what Bettelheim was like.` ``
In fact, few did.
Blind loyalty
To the larger world, Bettelheim was known for his books and frequent appearances on TV and in popular magazines. Reading or listening to his poetic evocation of childhood`s joys and sorrows, few would have thought it possible that this seemingly compassionate man would pull an adolescent girl out of a shower, then hit and berate her in front of dormitory mates. Yet Alida _____ says he did just that, and another former student, Roberta _______ , recalls being summoned from a toilet stall for a similar thrashing. [Emphasis added, and my omissions for privacy]
Thank you very much for sharing. I'm pretty sure that I'm also somewhere on the Autism Spectrum, or at the very least Spectrum-friendly or Spectrum-lite. At age 53, no, I'm not formally diagnosed, nor are most people my age going to be.. . . It has been an enormous struggle even to get assessed. During the wait I've discovered my clinical commissioning group has largely ignored clinical guidelines, and while the target maximum time is 3 months the reality is three years and since taking control from the previous trust the number waiting has risen from 196 to 444 and in a little over three years they have assessed 255 adults.
Freedom of information requests and attempting to get answers from the ccg at least fill the time whilst waiting but
have sadly revealed the autism act to be full of laudable ambition but severely lacking in implementation . . .
Alright, I can go for a self contained system, as long as I can also draw from other self contained systems and put it together my own way.I just felt, the idea of a self contained system was intriguing. Like elizebeth moon's speed of dark before all of the cure hoohah.
Bettelheim did not have the credentials he implied he had, so he just winged it. But all the same, he certainly had a feel for the whole Freudian approach! Give the complex explanation. Seemingly a simple action or situation, but give the complex explanation. Especially if it indicts the person.http://articles.chicagotribune.com/...ia-shankman-orthogenic-school-animal-terror/3
For example, Orthogenic School patient Charles _______ had allergies, but was not allowed to take medication, even when overcome by asthmatic attacks. Bettelheim thought allergies were psychologically induced-a theory largely laid to rest by subsequent medical research.
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Richard _______ , a photojournalist in _______ , remembers how he and a dormitory mate, both Cub Scouts, decorated their wall with a plaque illustrating how to tie knots. ``Dr. B said to the whole dorm: `Look, the two boys who are so twisted up inside show the whole world by putting knots on the wall,` `` _______ says. [my omissions for privacy]
I'm interested if anyone can meet the challenge, but from personal experience the uk has a long way to go even now.
It has been an enormous struggle even to get assessed. During the wait I've discovered my clinical commissioning group has largely ignored clinical guidelines, and while the target maximum time is 3 months the reality is three years and since taking control from the previous trust the number waiting has risen from 196 to 444 and in a little over three years they have assessed 255 adults.
Freedom of information requests and attempting to get answers from the ccg at least fill the time whilst waiting but
have sadly revealed the autism act to be full of laudable ambition but severely lacking in implementation similarly nice ( national institute for health and care excellence) guidelines mostly ignored.
I will follow the thread with interest, but need to keep a distance as its a little too personal and I don't want to earn a kick or worse with an inappropriate post.
as long as you realise that clinicians cannot be magiced out of nowhere ... and that is one of the major challengiens of expanding any service - the lead time is in years if not decades - consultant expansion in Emergency medicine is a two decade plus story
Looking at the original question, which "rights" are being referred to? <snip>
Dave
okay, looking at my own experience attending public schools in the United States mainly in the 1970s, perhaps if they could cut me a little slack on sensory issues. For example, an air conditioning unit which rattles and which noisily cuts on and off.Looking at the original question, which "rights" are being referred to?
in the 1960s in the uk we were coming out of the days of institutionalisaing Children with learning disabilities ( and the assocaited demographic time bomb that is creating now the parents ofthe first generation of none institutionalised people with learnign disabilities are becoming elderly, infirm and dying off - often leaving these peopel in limbo - as although they were institutionalised - they don't have independent living skills - having in somecases been treated as a child their entire life )
There are a number of people from history who are suspected as being on the Spectrum: Thomas Jefferson, legal reformer Jeremy Bentham (although we think of him as a philosopher), mathematician Carl Gauss, Charles Darwin, Jane Austen, etc.. . . making a extremely important contribution to their field/profession during the 1970s or something could help raise awareness and challenge stereotypes. . .
There are a number of people from history who are suspected as being on the Spectrum: Thomas Jefferson, philosophy Jeremy Bentham, mathematician Carl Gauss, Charles Darwin, Jane Austen, etc.
1) Realizing that a lot of famous people are, have been, or most probably were on the Autism Spectrum, and have contributed a heck of a lot to society, and then
2) The realization that a person shouldn't have to be famous in order to be treated with ordinary courtesy and respect.
Aha, if we had been a little more open to the ideas, theories, observations of the Soviets, maybe we could have gotten rolling sooner. I mean, maybe if we had been more bemused by communist rather than simply anti-.https://disabledaccessdenied.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/the-life-and-times-of-hans-asperger/
Asperger published a definition of autistic psychopathy in 1944 that was nearly identical with the definition published earlier by a Russian neurologist Grunya Sukhareva (Груня Ефимовна Сухарева) in 1926.
A problem, at least from my perspective, is that there is mostly a negative connotation to Asperger's disorder. The lack of knowledge on the matter is not only amongst behavioral health professionals but with the general public. Many people automatically think that since Asperger's disorder is a part of the autism spectrum that the person is automatically autistic, can't function, and, surprisingly, mentally retarded. I have actually heard the last part in person and had to immediately correct that individual.A high-functioning and famous person who has been diagnosed making a extremely important contribution to their field/profession during the 1970s or something could help raise awareness and challenge stereotypes. In OTL the best we have as actually being diagnosed would have to be Temple Grandin.