... "Autism Spectrum Quarterly" just came out with an issue that has an article on this. Specifically, some people are working on setting up an Autism...
... idea that only people with AS lack theory of other minds is crap. I know plenty of people in the real world who have no toom. > I agree with your...
Sorry about the delay, but I thought it best to let my brain cool off for a bit, and this thread is using up almost my entire word quota. ... The way to be...
Knowing who to trust is a difficult thing for anyone, but for many of us it can definitely be harder. There are probably a few different reasons for it, but...
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... This is really difficult for me to wrap my head around since the reason we aren't well-accepted by NTs are becaue they can't imagine that anyone thinks...
Everyone: I tossed Theory of Mind out and the reason behind it once Muslims all over the Middle East and parts of Asia started burning Danish flags over the ...
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... with being a neurological minority and interacting with others in a way different from most of those around us, many of us have a tendency to be very ...
... since the reason we aren't well-accepted by NTs are becaue they can't imagine that anyone thinks like we do. They're the ones who have this problem.> Delve...
I experience my own deficiency of TOM at times, so it's not crap for me. We kind of think it's funny, in our house. I will say something and my wonderful SO...
Is it a matter of not knowing that other people have seperate minds though, or something else? Sometimes that happens to me too, on a smaller scale, when I'm...
Not exactly nonsense. If you look at the diagnostic criteria for ADHD, it says: "V. The symptoms do not happen only during the course of a Pervasive ...
Like that book. That's what made me decide I was on the spectrum. I'm an autistic teen myself, and I've met three others. One was LFA, communicated by grunting...
... what exactly is the Theory of Other Minds supposed to be? I've heard of the Theory of Mind and the Sally Anne experiment. But i read that some Aspies in...
It seems to me that some autistics lack some emotions like loneliness and sexual attraction. I am rarely lonely and never sexually attracted and don't really...
To be frank, I think that's a matter of individual personality rather than any autistic trait. Many, many autistics that I know have felt lonely in the past...
... Is it that loneliness is impossible, or that since we're comfortable in our own company? A lot of "neurotypicals" don't seem to be able to stand being...
A great deal of "aspies" and other autistics can do the Sally Anne experiment, and far before they turn 20, Lyla. ... [Non-text portions of this message have...
... But NTs expect us to read their minds all the time - professionals even like to go on about how autistics cann't "mind-read". -Marcie ... Blab-away for as...
Yes - reality and the DSM-IV are not always convergent. I've sat through many of these arguments on various parent groups, but most of the experts will say the...
I had (and sometimes still do have) similar difficulties with small talk, till I found that people typically do love to talk, once you get them to the right...
That's not the same as TOM, though. And the "mind-reading" books are mostly about the organic ability of NTs to read subtext and non-verbal communication,...
You know, I really don't think it does need to be any more than that. I think there definitely was a certain gap in communication here. My concern was...
I think the dispute with the TOM issue is more a matter of the cause rather than any dispute that some problems similar to what TOM predicts do occur. Rather...
There comes times when I'm supposed to be embarrassed because NTs would be but with me I'm not. There comes times when i don't show my emotions becauase I...
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