Couldn't possibly be any connection. /s
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.”
The decedent was 89. Which begs the question. 'How old is his uncle?'
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.
Couldn't possibly be any connection. /s
I have high functioning Autism.