Inside the Mind of Temple Grandin
Sounds True: Insights at the Edge
00:00
Is Asburgers Now a Category of Autism?
Asburgers was the ot social awkwardness with no speech to la. What they've done nowas merged it all into the autism continual, where atism previously you had to have speech tolay along with lack of social relatedness and other symptoms like repetative behavior. i'm getting concerned that too often there's too much emphasis on the deficit and not enough emphasis on building up the area of strength. You see, being a visual thinker, i, you know, i go watch some show t v or something, about a prodegy playing the piano,. And instead of working on improving his musical ability, they want to stop it out becuse they say it's abnormal.
Play episode from 11:27
Transcript
