Comments on: Perpetuating Myths About Autism

By: Theo

Theo — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:54:59 +0000

Hey look, it’s John Best Jr’s mentor!!

Seriously, these people are so wrong in thier mindset, they don’t even offend me anymore. I actually feel sorry for them, and those who are forced to associate with them. These are the kind of folks who were dropped far to many times on the head as children!

But strangely, in thier insane rantings, they do us a service. By reading such posts and recongnizing the insanity in them, people turn a way from such outdated views and begin to allow true knowledge to seep in.

So keep ranting boys! Keep being insane!

By: maria

maria — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:34:15 +0000

i’ve only just read this and i’m fuming. How can he make such geralised and wrong observations. i’m the total opposite, i have problems in relationships because i do everything to keep the other person happy often to the detrimental effect of my health, because i’m to scared to say no, or give my opinion for the fear of being rejected.

Does he ever think about what he is saying and how much pain his words must cause?

By: TsutanaiXIII

TsutanaiXIII — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:31:29 +0000

This review clarifies my thoughts as to how the world views me. This really is how most people I know perceive Asperger’s to work, at best. The amount of this variety of input I get about myself drastically changes my view of myself, at the very least.

By: Vic

Vic — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:00:18 +0000

Sandy, I think you were far too kind in your response to this ignorant tripe.

Unfortunately, it’s attitudes like his that continue to perpetuate the myths that cause parents to recoil in horror when their children are given an AS diagnosis.

Hey Rex? I got some news for you. I’ve got AS, and whaddya know, I’ve had meaningful, lasting romantic relationships with others. I even got married! I had kids! And guess what, so did my AS father! Amazing! Shocking! !!

By: Lynne Soraya

Lynne Soraya — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 03:48:06 +0000

How absolutely appalling! I, too, am AS married to an NT spouse. It’s not always easy, but “lethal”? I don’t think so. All relationships are work, our challenges are just a little different.

By: jason nolan

jason nolan — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 17:29:40 +0000

Wilde was the suitor of Florence Balcombe. The stokers and wildes were neighbors, though I don’t know if oscar and bram hung out as kids. Bram didn’t walk until he was 7. But they hung out at university, and they were still friends after Wilde moved to europe.

Stoker married Florence in 78. Wilde is reported to have said that he’d never return to ireland after she dumped him. Wilde married in 84.

By: jason nolan

jason nolan — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 11:40:21 +0000

Thanks for all the comments Yvonne. Nicely put.

I’m skeptical about the movie, myself. But I want to see it regardless. I assume it will really resonate for some peeps and dis-resonate for others (dissonate should be a word). I wonder, though if this is how I/we/some are seen in the greater neurotypicality. I certainly have no idea.

Don’t forget. Bram Stoker married Oscar Wilde’s girlfirend. Rex does seem to be a psychic vampire (i.e. a bore who sucks the life out of social things). Can we sick the 19th C anglo-irish on him and just be done with it?

[pre-coffee rambling]

By: Clay

Clay — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:00:33 +0000

Wow, I’m amazed to hear that Rex Reed is still around! What is he now, 80?

By: Saja

Saja — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:43:19 +0000

My NT husband, for one, would be extremely offended by that review. What we need is for the happily married NT spouses of people with AS to rise up and rip Rex’ head off.

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