Posted by Declan on May 19, 2005, at 4:30:14
In reply to Re: freaked out by asperger's, posted by Declan on May 19, 2005, at 0:48:40
Hi, no I meant me, that is my brother is classically autistic. Some people have said that autistic people "lack a theory of mind". This might mean (something like) having difficulty seeing things from another's perspective. There have been some interesting experiments invoving perception detailed in "Autism: Explaining the enigma" by Uta Frith. Some autistic type people have a clear kind of attention that might be similar to OCD. Big overlap there. In "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat", Oliver Sacks details these autistic twins whose way of passing the time was to swap prime numbers, and they were doing it in 4 figure ones. Interesting stuff,eh?
Declan
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