Posts by debunk
-
Access: Autism, ABA and being a bad mother, in reply to BDB Inc,
I didn't think that I "disagreed" with anything ..merely pointed out that some of these behaviour descriptions have changed over the years ..eg autism, ADHD, dementia ..nothing more to say here about it though. All the best ..
-
Access: Autism, ABA and being a bad mother, in reply to Russell Brown,
Try reading ..
www.theguardian.com/society/2014/mar/30/children-hyperactivity-not-real-disease-neuroscientist-adhdI was only trying to have a conversation. Apologies for any offence caused - not intended. No more sensitive NZ blogs for me.
-
A trudge to the roots of Autism. The New York Times May 13 2013 Davuid Dobbs
"flounce"--sexist twit.
-
Access: Autism, ABA and being a bad mother, in reply to Russell Brown,
"We know of what we speak"! Well in a parochial sense maybe. Suggest you Google GRANDIN+SYME+YARDS ..we have been research colleagues for some time and both written books though I would not be so foolish as to venture into neuroscience and neither should she - see the NYTimes review of her book - also reviewed in the Listener this week. Regards. I give up my brief encounter with Public Address..
-
I am totally bemused. I have never met anyone or any child whom I would label "autistic" (perhaps because I don't understand the definition of this syndrome)and I don't see anything other than an imaginative child in Mark's behaviour description of his 5 yr old, and charming quote about the "miracle of kisses."
I spent an hour or so with the now famous "autistic" animal production researcher Temple Grandin in the early 1980s talking together about handling yards for livestock, and did not find anything particularly "autistic" about her behaviour or demeanour either. Obviously I am missing something here, though I did follow the debunked vaccination debate in UK. Surely it's difference we should celebrate, and not conformity to mundane routines and expectations?
-
Before the birth of the label "autistic" in the 1980s developmental psychology courses at university referred to such children as "withdrawn" or as "slow developers" - certainly less judgemental and less "clinical" decriptions for such a multivariate personality state..same with the all encompassing term "dementia" which can have 20 or more physiological and/or environmental causes?
-
Perhaps NZ medical casual behaviours re diagnoses and treatments relate to ACC and no liability for mistakes?
-
Further to previous opinion, I thought the recent Listener article on "Dementia" - a multivariate syndrome with many documented physiological (eg stroke) and environmental (eg loneliness) causes - was sensible.
-
Can't resist noting somewhere that "autism" came into the DSM in 1980 as "infantile autism" and 1987 as "autistic disorder" ..during seven years studying psychology in the 1960s and early 70s we did use terms like "withdrawn" presumably for behaviour associated now with the DSMV "ASD"... and this period included experience as an OT assistant in a mixed age psychiatric ward. Times change. I myself share the view that medicalising and labelling behaviours is very restrictive and it has been suggested that the pharmaceutical industry encourages it to sell their product eg Ritalin for ADHD ..and never heard of that syndrome either in that era.
-
And what is their response, Steven?