“[…] It’s not necessarily that I don’t like you—it’s just immensely discomforting to be up close and personal. “It feels almost painful making eye contact…” The following Letter to the Editor, which gives a first-hand account of living with autism, was submitted to Wired868 by an autistic teenager: They say …
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We don’t have words for everything. We never will. Such is the nature of language; such is the nature of change. All around us, things evolve, develop new characteristics. Things become extinct, disappear from memory. Someone from as recent as a century ago would find it difficult to follow a …
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“Whereas autism is often reflected in poor academics and developmental issues, children diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome usually possess an average or even above average IQ, which means they are not easily diagnosed since they are not inhibited from succeeding academically. “However they may be mislabeled as ‘difficult’, ‘antisocial’, ‘awkward’ and even …
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