Signed response from the ASA

The above "photo" is of the registered mail receipt in response to my letter to The Autism society of America concerning the recognition of our anthropology. It is dated Sept 21, 2005 and signed by a prominent member of the ASA staff. Perhaps this might yield some results? Their response (if any) will be posted here on this blog unedited.



I offer my sincerest thanks to the Autism Society of America for not refusing my letter concerning autism and our living working past. This is related to a previous post on this blog (http://prerainmanautism.blogspot.com/) to the Autism Society of America trying to get them own up to us. I will share on this blog unedited any response I might get from them.

Now, that autism has been dealt a blow via Dr. Wakefields misgivings it might make our offer to study our old long term Autism anthropology more appealing? Just think of the knowledge and insight we have to share with everyone in the spectrum. For those just hearing of us we are a worldwide autism anthropology that all do the same thought process Temple Grandin wrote about and most us even do more. We hold traditional jobs we are social and we drive. Many of us missed Rain Man's curse but our anthropology includes everyone from teenagers to 80 something's.

We have discovered the Autism is the same no matter what country we are from or language we speak. We all share the same milestones in autism development. Our language has never been in print before so it is all uncharted ground and no Autism Expert has had a picture thought. The benefit of us figuring out our different thought process would apply to everyone in the autism and also to mankind. Just think what mankind could do knowing a different kind of human thought process! How could you expect someone to learn "Spanish" if all you taught them was "French" and "English"? How do you ever expect someone to learn autism if not even the most basic thoughts are mentioned? For many different reasons those of us that made it had the best of timing and dumb luck to learn our thoughts by trial and error. Condense our long-hand blind experiments and you could teach autism by 6th grade!

I know none of us have a degree in anything psychology or education but we do have degrees in real life. We also have the inside information of having been there and done that and indeed a long term anthropology to back up and 'prove' every statement we make. That sounds like stability and good character in Autism. As stewards of Autism, The Autism Society of America has a responsibility to at least look into our claims and share the knowledge. We have been on the wrong side (unintentionally) of Modern Autism for too many years now.

Actually, as I have stated before you don't even have to study us. That would save tons of bad press and tense moments just simply listen to a few of us "Temple Grandin's" learn from our mistakes and set up your own charter autism program and write your own history and call it research! Aspie's getting any advantage at all in terms of their thought process and mindset will take any information they get and develop it like we did. It is truly amazing that we learned our naturally programmed language and mended our social skills on our own by 'accident' with trial and error. All I am asking is the Autism Society give us the time of day, attempt to copy and learn from us, call it research, call it a project, spin it however you want but, I'm confident any aspie that gets our version of life and education will grow by leaps and bounds. Modern autism and modern times unknowingly took away our very best chances at success and almost everything modern about new age autism has turned out to be more work than help.

Rich Shull, author Autism Pre Rain Man Autism, Inventor of the Turing Motor.