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You should recognize that you need the help of a person who doesn't share your mind-blindness to make appropriate judgements about children and how to relate to
by xlnt 18y ago
You should recognize that you need the help of a person who doesn't share your mind-blindness to make appropriate judgements about children and how to relate to them. You absolutely cannot figure out how to treat kids on your own if you are on the spectrum.
So suppose we take the list of all the people who have similar views to me, on these issues. Then we go through the list and check if each person is autistic. If we find one who isn't autistic, then can we count these as valid positions?
- LPTS 18y agoNo, because a non-autistic person can use their mirror neurons to imitate the behavior a person who has it. (This is the mechanism by which all of human culture evolved). I'll drop you that email, maybe we are getting too far off topic.
- dbrush 18y agoThe existence of mirror neurons is a theory. Also, you're confusing Autism with all Autism Spectrum Disorders as a whole; Asperger's Syndrome, for example. Autism != Asperger's Syndrome
- LPTS 18y agoI am not confusing them so much as avoiding trying to write a textbook on autism when addressing the original issue. I was sloppy. I may not have succeeded at my goal of not writing too much. The existence of mirror neurons is not just a theory. A mirror neuron is (by definition) a neuron that fires both when you do something and someone else has done something. Those are observed. It is a theory that it causes autism, but not a theory that they fire less in autistic children, or that these areas of the brain are almost precisely the same places where autistic spectrum people have thinner brains then controls.
- stcredzero 18y agothan not then