And the BBC is contractually obliged NOT to lie. If they do Michael Grade has to officially get flogged, Mussolini Style.
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And why do you think that that ADAMS is telling the truth and...
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I'm starting to lose my already thin worn patience with you, Clutcher. STOP WITH YOUR DOCTER WHO CRAP IN EVERY TOPIC!
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Sure, we don't know everything about the brain, but we know lots. The only live, physical exploration can be performed when people are injured and doctors start to play around and experiment a bit. I heart the Phinius Gage story. Anyway, we know enough about the brain to tell what the lobes and what the inner brain do, so it's easy to make connections between the symptoms and what parts of the brain has the problem. |
I'd say the most unexplored thing is either the ocean or the brain. There are certain areas of the brain we know nothing about, for example, there may be a part of the brain that generates physcic ability in some humans. However, we still cannot confirm nor deny if this is true. Probably the brain will never fully be explored and some parts will remain concealed to us forever.
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Wow. Alot of people have Asperger's here. I have the symptom where you don't like to be touched, as does a friend of mine, but I don't think I am autistic.
However, the more I think about it, the more I wonder... is it really a disease? I mean, their minds function differently, but it seems to me that much of the stigma surrounding it is actually people's response and attitude to it, rather than the condition itself. I have heard of autistic pride rallies, and people with it who get very annoyed when it is referred to as a disease. But then, what do I know? |
On side note, wasn't Eintein considered to be autistic or something in the language department?
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Well, he didn't speak until he was... was it three? It was quite late in life, and his acheivements in school were unremarkable.
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Einstein was thought to be autistic because he didn't speak until age 4. But no, he was not actually retarded.
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I once saw a ten year old with Asperger's appear on Mastermind. He did pretty well, though I can't remember if he won. Specialist subject: Star Wars.
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I didn't speak until I was three also. But - just like Einstein - when I did start talking, I went straight into full sentences.
And, secondly, the thing about Einstein not doing well at school is a myth because the school he went to changed their grading system after he left so that scores of 1 or 2 (which were originally the best grades) became the lower end of the scale. So someone saw his report card and misinterpreted it. As told here. |
Okay.
My friend also did not speak until he was three, but then, that was about the time his sense of hearing finally manifested. |
Well the type of autism, where you don´t talk until you are 3-4 years old, is called: "High Functioning Autism", it can really make the parents afraid, but when the child begin to speak, the child does catch up with the language.
It is just that thing that seperate it from Aspergers Syndrome. Well here in Denmark we do not call autism "a disease", but we call it "a handicap", "a disorder", or more soft "a condition". My self i do not think that autism like High Functioning Autism or Aspergers Syndrome should be considered disease, handicap, disorder, or at some other ways slighting. |
I agree with you that autism should not be regarded as a disease - and I don't think it generally is to anyone who is not completely ignorant.
However, if you think we should not use the terms 'handicap' or 'disorder' because they are slighting, perhaps the problem is your perception of the terms rather than the fact that they are being used. People think these terms should not be used to describe disabled people and yet they're only percieved negatively because they've been associated with disabled people. The fact is that people with autism do have difficulties performing some tasks that other people can do easily. Seems like a handicap to me. |
But then again, they may well excell in other skills. Someone who can here a tune once, then realise it again on their piano immediately may see even the most skilled piano player as handicapped. If indeed the thought even occurs to them.
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well turns out I have Autism, I have Asperger's syndrome and Dyspraxic tendencies :fuzblink:
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what is dyspraxia
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I want to amputate both of my 'wedding fingers'. Well, my 'wedding' and 'engagement' fingers, rather.
I'm pretty sure this makes me autistic, too. edit: Also, stop diagnosing yourselves based on some website you skimmed for ten minutes. Leave that sort of thing up to a trained physician and stop trying to jump on the mental retardation bandwagon. |
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Oh. My. God. They've got a euphimism for lack of sporting ability? ****ing christ. What ever happened to personality traits?
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Gosh, I wish I had known that term as an excuse when I was still in grade school... PE was so humiliating; that ridiculous word would have came in handy.
Hah, I'm with Super Munch on this one though. The inability to ride a bike is not a condition/disorder/whatever. |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyspraxia
I really shouldn't have read that myself; I now have one more condition with which to diagnose myself. Sections of note include: :
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AS for me, I don't think I have any real mental differences. Some might think otherwise. But for all I know, I have none. Though I don't have that Dyspraxia crap, i.e. I can ride a bike. without hands, for hours on end |