CNN Autism Talking

Autism and Talking,,,, the following was found on the web a comment following a CNN piece.

Well, before autism was "helped" many more of us learned to talk autisitcally.Autisitcally talking is a natural thought process (for us) we must learn on our own. When we talk we take our invisible to you picture thoughts, the picture thoughts Temple wrote about and convert them to speech. IF the autism "Professionals" knew what we knew and realized what we do they would offer intensive courses on picture thought translation.

Modern help us too much autism has unknowingly taken away our Autism training grounds. Without the diagnosis and the "help" we had the best of chances to achieve. We had to, we were odd strange kids with no other way to communicate-that forced us to learn our picture thoughts and how to describe them to others. Today it seems many in autism might know their invisible to the researcher picture thoughts but have a TOO easy short cut with an electronic board?

Granted any communication is better than nothing and the communication from an "professional point of view is "success" that absently tells "autism Professionals" they have done something right but in reality they missed the whole point to autism as they don't know just what it is we have to do to form words. "Success" like this is paraded in front of the cameras and Autism's Empire grows even bigger; All the autism's Anthropology that mostly missed Rain Man's curse has figured out this stuff.

If so called autism professional's would care to unite our Anthropology they to would know what we know-the building blocks of the human mind. When we talk all we are doing reading our daydream type thoughts (Temple's Picture Thoughts) , something easier said than done and nearly impossible with the advent of Modern Autism. If we are right autism is the simple step-by-step process the mind does naturally to do what normal people do. All autism research has done is stall the natural process we figured out on our own. So much for progress? In fact so many of us (late bloomers) actually did learn how to this we never present as autistic in later life. If we were treated the same as today's poor Autistic people The Autism Epidemic would have started long before Rain Man.

Here is the comment I found on the web.

I just caught this piece on CNN. I hope they will re-run it again--it was AWESOME! It's so nice to see an adult with autism giving their own perspective and insight for us all to learn from. I was astonished at the fact that they referred to Amanda as "low-functioning"--in spite of the fact that she is quite articulate in the way she communicates on her keyboard and obviously had good comprehension based on her answers to questions asked of her. She emphasized, however, that her primary and more meaningful means of communication for her is how she communicates with her environment. Hopefully, this piece will help to open the eyes of many people out there who have false perceptions of the intellect of non-verbal individuals with autism. Way to go Amanda!!

Paula
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