The Passionate Mind: How People with Autism Learn

Mesibov, Shea and Schopler (2000) agreed with this, but they added ‘the inability to organise oneself’ to the array of difficulties experienced by us as the AS population.

For many of us sensory issues are uppermost (e.g. Kern et al. 2006, 2008; Lawson 2000) whilst others do not appear to suffer with sensory discord (e.g. Prince-Hughes 2002).

Although difference and disability are not the same thing, they often are received by the population as ‘not normal’.

Some of us are echolalic and use idiosyncratic language such as pronominal reversal (reversal of personal pronouns, e.g. I and you), but we may not always do this.

In addition, we know that the distinct interest systems in the NT population and in the AS population are relying upon different brain configurations (e.g. Dawson et al. 2005; Mottron et al. 2006).

sensory-motor, interest and attention loop.

Whereas, for those of us in the AS population, some might answer with a long, detailed monologue about their health or their special interest, or they might ignore the person asking the question because they cannot process an answer fast enough.

you are unsure what an AS individual is interested in try giving them a digital camera and see what they take pictures of. I suggest they will only take pictures of things that interest them.

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