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POPSGamers show Aspbergers traits They are not suggesting that aspbergers syndrome is caused by gameplay, but the similar symptoms may give researchers new insight into the mechanism of autism. No doubt the brain of a game player is having particular specific sections of the brain reinforced by the game play, leaving other areas to atrophy. The biggest difference may be, that the thoughts of an aspberger's syndrome sufferer can be a complete mystery. If you want to know what a gamer is thinking, you just have to watch them play the game.
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POPSCharles Richter Suffered With Asperger's - "I need not tell you that right now there are all the necessary means to create a decent world. The chief obstacles are ignorance; greed; militarism; nationalism; and the violence that stems either from a psychotic impulse to destruction, or from a feeling of inferiority and a desire for revenge." - It is painful to hear the same arguments now that we’re used to justify the two great wars -and along with them the same half truths, and probably some of the same lies". - In spite of the great development of information services the world has ever known, I think that no ordinary citizen has any real access to the facts on which he might base sound judgment on the national and social issues of our times". Hough closes her story by asking: " here we would be if Charles Richter's brain had been wired according to standard blueprints". The answer could be to on
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POPSAutistic Amanda Baggs uses the same keyboard I do! AND she hangs out in Second Life? (For the record, the keyboard is a Microsoft Comfort Curve 2000.) I find Amanda's video inspiring and hope it continues to set a precedent for more sharing from autistic & Asperger perspectives.
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POPSEinstein, Newton displayed autistic traits "Psychiatry tends to focus almost exclusively on the negative side of different forms of mental illness," Fitzgerald said in statement. "I want to show that psychiatric disorders can also have positive dimensions."
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POPSA lifetime of restless isolation Music critic, editor,and writer Tim Page has a touching and painful essay in the New Yorker about his life-long as someone with Asperger's Syndrome to navigate through a world whose rules he could never quite figure out. It's a must-read for everyone, I think, but regular readers of this blog will probably guess why it means so much to me.
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POPSThomas the Tank Good for Autistic Children Personally, I love Thomas. I watched it while babysitting my nephew and plan to have my own children watch the series as well. I think it's one of the best children's shows currently on in the US (is it still rerun?). And the toys are fun to play with, even for adults.
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