Comments on: Kamran Nazeer Comments on the “Trained? Cured?” Post http://aspiefamily.org/dad/kamran-nazeer-comments-on-the-trained-cured-post/ All three of us have been identified with High Functioning Autism/Asperger's. Our son is 7. This is about us. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:57:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: mcewen http://aspiefamily.org/dad/kamran-nazeer-comments-on-the-trained-cured-post/#comment-933 mcewen Thu, 07 Dec 2006 20:58:53 +0000 http://aspiefamily.org/dad/2006/12/02/kamran-nazeer-comments-on-the-trained-cured-post/#comment-933 Spectrum, spectrum, spectrum. Cheers Spectrum, spectrum, spectrum.
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]]> By: Joseph http://aspiefamily.org/dad/kamran-nazeer-comments-on-the-trained-cured-post/#comment-890 Joseph Sun, 03 Dec 2006 15:56:31 +0000 http://aspiefamily.org/dad/2006/12/02/kamran-nazeer-comments-on-the-trained-cured-post/#comment-890 Perhaps someone like Oprah should not be considered part of a minority, lest she attract too much attention to herself to the detriment of the "real" members of the minority. Perhaps someone like Oprah should not be considered part of a minority, lest she attract too much attention to herself to the detriment of the “real” members of the minority.

]]> By: laurentius-rex http://aspiefamily.org/dad/kamran-nazeer-comments-on-the-trained-cured-post/#comment-885 laurentius-rex Sun, 03 Dec 2006 12:05:36 +0000 http://aspiefamily.org/dad/2006/12/02/kamran-nazeer-comments-on-the-trained-cured-post/#comment-885 Ah the perils of googling on ones name, well I usually end up at the top of the google page so I must be famous. Nazeers book has not turned up on the shelves at Birmingham yet inspite of my having ordered it so I can't comment on the book. Nadesans social construction of Autism has and that is a not a very good book because it is an outsiders book not an insiders. That is why I am more interested in reading Nazeers book. As to what he should think. Well I would suggest of course that he read more and become politicised and realise how he is both psychologically and culturally embedded in this phenomenon called autism, which is experienced largely through the media for most. The way you construct your own way of being is not independant of the media unless one happens to be one of Levi Strausses Nambikwara, or Malinovsky's Trobriand Islanders and I am willing to bet they are much more sophisticated than they used to be in Marshall Mcluhans global village. Ah the perils of googling on ones name, well I usually end up at the top of the google page so I must be famous.

Nazeers book has not turned up on the shelves at Birmingham yet inspite of my having ordered it so I can’t comment on the book. Nadesans social construction of Autism has and that is a not a very good book because it is an outsiders book not an insiders. That is why I am more interested in reading Nazeers book.

As to what he should think. Well I would suggest of course that he read more and become politicised and realise how he is both psychologically and culturally embedded in this phenomenon called autism, which is experienced largely through the media for most. The way you construct your own way of being is not independant of the media unless one happens to be one of Levi Strausses Nambikwara, or Malinovsky’s Trobriand Islanders and I am willing to bet they are much more sophisticated than they used to be in Marshall Mcluhans global village.

]]> By: Ballastexistenz http://aspiefamily.org/dad/kamran-nazeer-comments-on-the-trained-cured-post/#comment-884 Ballastexistenz Sun, 03 Dec 2006 10:52:14 +0000 http://aspiefamily.org/dad/2006/12/02/kamran-nazeer-comments-on-the-trained-cured-post/#comment-884 If you are autistic and someone who can't speak is also autistic, then being autistic can involve speaking or not speaking (or any point in between, of which there are many) depending on the person and possibly also the time in their life. You might be interested in <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2940635056091639644" rel="nofollow">this interview</a> I (a non-speaking person) did with an autistic person who <em>had</em> learned to speak well, about the idea of whether she was "recovered" or not. I don't think it damages me any, or takes anything away from me, to be thought of as in the same category as her. If you are autistic and someone who can’t speak is also autistic, then being autistic can involve speaking or not speaking (or any point in between, of which there are many) depending on the person and possibly also the time in their life. You might be interested in this interview I (a non-speaking person) did with an autistic person who had learned to speak well, about the idea of whether she was “recovered” or not. I don’t think it damages me any, or takes anything away from me, to be thought of as in the same category as her.

]]> By: Mum Is Thinking http://aspiefamily.org/dad/kamran-nazeer-comments-on-the-trained-cured-post/#comment-879 Mum Is Thinking Sun, 03 Dec 2006 04:23:00 +0000 http://aspiefamily.org/dad/2006/12/02/kamran-nazeer-comments-on-the-trained-cured-post/#comment-879 What a nice fella, taking the time to leave a comment on your blog :) I have his book on order from the library. Hon, you should take up washing dishes. When I'm trying to think (usually about 12 different things all in one go) I wash dishes. It helps :D I bet your wife will like that suggestion, anyway lol... I'm having the same problem with my own blogging...too many things to say, how to say them before I think them through? Can't. Shouldn't. Just didn't want you to feel all lonely on that particular issue :) Cheers, Mum is Thinking, and washing dishes What a nice fella, taking the time to leave a comment on your blog :) I have his book on order from the library.

Hon, you should take up washing dishes. When I’m trying to think (usually about 12 different things all in one go) I wash dishes. It helps :D

I bet your wife will like that suggestion, anyway lol…

I’m having the same problem with my own blogging…too many things to say, how to say them before I think them through? Can’t. Shouldn’t.

Just didn’t want you to feel all lonely on that particular issue :)

Cheers,

Mum is Thinking, and washing dishes

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