Couldn't possibly be any connection. /s
Posted on 06/17/2023 4:41:38 AM PDT by Libloather
The Mississippi man known as 'Case 1,' the first person to be diagnosed with autism, has died.
Donald G. Triplett was the subject of a book titled 'In a Different Key,' a PBS documentary film, BBC news magazine installment and countless medical journal articles.
But to employees at the Bank of Forest, in a small city about 40 miles east of Jackson, he was simply 'Don,' WLBT-TV reported.
Triplett died Thursday, confirmed Lesa Davis, the bank's senior vice president. He was 89.
Triplett worked for 65 years at the bank where his father Beamon Triplett was a primary shareholder.
'Don was a remarkable individual,' CEO Allen Breland said of Triplett, who was known as a fiercely independent savant. 'And he kept things interesting.'
Triplett, a 1958 graduate of Millsaps College, enjoyed golf and travel and was frequently flying to exotic locales, Breland said.
'He was in his own world, but if you gave him two, three-digit numbers, he could multiply them faster than you could get the answer on a calculator,' he told the television station.
'I've known him all my life,' said his nephew OB to USA Today, who was with his uncle when he died peacefully. 'He was just a joy to be around. He'd bring a smile to your face every time you get around.'
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What a story.
“Mississippi man who was the first person to be diagnosed with autism in 1938”
...and then the medical community said: “Let’s get this thing rolling!!!”
Talking Heads frontman David Byrne is different in this way. There’s a few videos on YouTube describing this. In a positive way actually, refreshingly.
When I was a kid, autism was a rare oddity. Now I would say the majority of kids have some sort of autism spectrum ailment. At the risk of being called old fashioned, I believe most “autism” “asperbergers” “oppositional defiance disorder” etc. are what we used to call “tantrums” and “lack of belt.”
Sounds like autism is another destructive progressive New Deal program
The decedent was 89. Which begs the question. 'How old is his uncle?'
Agree - lots of so-called “spectrum” cases could be cured by discipline and exercise.
My grandmother had an aunt who was younger than she was.
A lot can be explained by “learning channels”.
Some people learn best by auditory stimulation and some people learn best visually.
In the old days listening was the primary learning skill.
ADHD which is not exactly autism, but that is an argument for “professionals” or “experts” who prove time and time again that they know a lot and understand little.
Those either diagnosed or misdiagnosed with ADHD are usually not good visual learners.
Hence they have problems in structured environments almost entirely based on visual learning.
But it really doesn’t matter much anymore because there is really NO formal educational system.
Public schools have become nothing more than ports of indoctrination.
The REAL educational system is an informal one, namely electronic mass media which is being streamed 24/7 through a variety of devices.
Our youth are uneducated when it comes to things of any value but they are highly literate in what is being streamed to them.
The irony is they are neither good listeners nor are they good readers.
Their attention span won’t allow them to be.
They gather information in virtual bits and pieces and are unable to process it or store in any way that makes any sense or allows for emotional or intellectual growth.
If I were a tutor and in charge of a child’s education, I’d settle his brain down.
I’d have my student sit and listen to a symphony such as Mahler’s Ninth a particular favorite of mine.
I’d have the student sit and watch a silent film such as Buster Keaton’s The General.
Of course, there would be much reading.
The point being develop the auditory and visual learning channels separately.
Such exercises would develop imagination something sorely lacking in a world under attack 24/7 by mass media.
It’s takes NO imagination to watch a film or play a video game based on CGI or computer generated imagery.
And from what I’ve seen it doesn’t take much imagination to create the CGI.
FWIW I have taken an Asperger’s syndrome test online which probably has little validity, but I tested out as borderline probably because I am hypersensitive to all kinds of stimuli particularly auditory stimuli.
No matter how one’s brain is wired, there has NEVER been a better time to learn.
But that is the irony.
There has never been less true learning.
Gathering and disseminating information is not learning.
Uh no. It’s not lack of belt.
Go to an ABA treatment center. You will see very disabled kids.
Saying take a belt to them is like saying to beat a mentally retarded child until he becomes valedictorian.
The phrase before indicates it was talking about the nephew who was with the decedant Don Triplett
The latest information says there’s no such thing as learning channels, auditory or visual learning types of people.
Couldn't possibly be any connection. /s
Maybe for some. But I personally know of too many cases that are obviously familial -— especially the Aspie savant type.
Agree. I know of one family with an autistic child born in 1997, then fraternal twin half-siblings born in 2018, both autistic.
The twins were immunized at 6 weeks old with 5 vaccinations at once by their pediatrician.
How many people who had symptoms that would put them ‘on the spectrum ‘ lived before anyone had known about autism? It seems that anyone who is just a little outside of average is now somewhere on this spectrum.
I have high functioning Autism.
The latest information says there’s no such thing as learning channels, auditory or visual learning types of people.
It’s hard to keep up with the latest information.
Latest information says gender is fluid, as F Chuck Todd proclaimed gender is a spectrum.
We will have to agree to disagree. I grew up in the sixties. Somehow we all managed despite not being “diagnosed” with something.
I have to think constant junk/fast food, zero exercise, constant screens is not doing anyone any favors.
Well the junk food IS one suspect amongst scientists. Specifically herbicides and pesticides.
The other is vaccines.
The government says it’s genetics but you cannot have a genetic epidemic.
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