Posted on 02/19/2005 6:45:18 PM PST by snarks_when_bored
Very well put.
A "Christian" who has another man as the "love of his life".
To psychologists who study personality development, it is diagnostic. For instance, Temple Grandin is asexual so she states in her book. I don't think she experiences the range of human emotion that this fellow does. She seems more severely autistic. She was autistic at birth rather than from a neurologic disorder. The development of autism following an epileptic fit is unknown to me. That's probably the most interesting thing in this article.
Sorry. Just reread the article. Neil was a headbanger as an infant. That's a sign that something was wrong from birth. He was fortunate to have such sensitive, kind parents. Both he and Temple Grandin share that in common. The same child with problematic parents probably would never go on to earn a living and live independently.
When I first started working with autistics, everyone believed Bruno Bettleheim's idea that the cause of autism lies in the mother/child attachment. After spending time with toddlers who are autistic, it was obvious to me that they react to perceptual stimuli differently than other children...and it had nothing to do with their parents. It seems to be a problem in the nervous system.
All I know is, that I think in the language I happen to be speaking at the time.
Understood.
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning, while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
ROBERT HEINLEIN
Is Calcul[u]s the word, or the image? I argue image, but I could see Lebesgue disagreeing.
I think Manin would argue that much of mathmatics—calculus included, of course—is image and word (see his second, third and fourth paragraphs). The warning that he offers in his last paragraph is directed at the larger culture rather than at mathematics (although I can't help but think that, say, Stephen Wolfram isn't on Manin's short list of best buddies).
Intresting. I'd like to know about it.
I, too, got a low score.
was hoping for a higher one. :(
It only implies about a relationship not necesarily homosexual. He may not be able to have or relate to anything intimate.
"Is this a casual mention that Tammet is a homosexual?"
The whole piece is, in my opinion, a pro-homo one.
Notice how the author speaks well of Tammet, of his abilities, and then suddently at the very end tells us of his homo leanings?
The intent of the author is to think positively of homos.
"This would make a perfect personals ad."
It would, but it depends on you gender.
Have potent hallucinogens been tested on those with autism?
Well, I'm being shouted down as a bigot and homophobe at the university I attend for letting those views be known. We were asked to give our views on how we would "help" a lesbian couple who came to us wanting to adopt children.
There were several statements of "That's great", "good for them", etc. while the poor conservative students just sat there silent, afraid to say anything.
I actually made the shocking statement in class that heterosexual parenting was the norm and then devastated them by saying that nature discriminated against homosexuals having children by not providing them with the proper... ahem... tools. Jaws were dropped everywhere.
One young feminist replied, "Well, you're making a cultural criticism." I said, "No, I'm making a scientific criticism."
Then the instructor smarmily replied, "But with the technology that exists today, a man is not even needed to have children." To which I replied, with the intellectual complexity of a Darwin, "But you still need his sperm." Silence.
BTW, This is the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. They've just opened up the Clinton School of Public Service: http://clintonschool.uasys.edu/
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I guess that he had trouble with plugs, should have been my first clue that something was wrong.
I hope that's not representative of class rooms across the nation.
I would have had to have said the best way to help that couple is to let them know that their lifestyle is not normal and that if they truly loved the kids they would want those kids to grow up in a normal household with a father present.
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