--- Tom Thumb Smith wrote:
>
> Hi Neil,
> So Neil, tell us how you got to be such an expert on autism?
> Tom

Hi (social meaning-less comment),

How 2 cure Autism,
B4 I 4get again,
Temple Grandin, had pin worms, when young,
She went from Autistic -> something else.
The worms/parasites,
that have evolved with mans journey,
normalized her immune system.

I echoed that somewhere in
http://3service.freeservers.com/autism.html
over 10 days ago, site out of date now,
probably echoing someone else,
but my memeory comes & goes,
In 5 years I'll know what U asked,
I have delayed processsing,
somewhat,
sometimes I even know my name,
or where I am or what I'm doing.
I have 2 use short sentences,
2 understand myself.

The Granny Smith joke,
was all echostation,
I used it on my wedding day,
Introducing a guest,
A Mrs Smith who was a nanna.
Hence the statement:
Granny Smith.
(No-one got it)

I have yet 2 learn how 2 read,
other peoples english.
The best I can do is pick out keywords,
& imagine what it may mean.
3 keywords give me 20 possible combinations.
So I get 20 possible questions.
All very time consuming of
executive processing,
hence the delay.

When I was young,
3 tomato pips,
was enough 4 a tomato sandwich,
any more it was 2 strong.
When young I played dams in gutters.
All the kids who did that in my
neighbourhood ended up with,
special kids.

When Paul was 4y they said
he was regressive aloof Autistic.
He later lost all his language.

So I went 2 a conference
with Temple Grandin, &
the local expert Tony Attwood, Australia.

He described special people
with different senses etc.

I thought that was strange,
He's describing me.
U mean writing in books doesn't jump up
& down & change colours?
Unbelievable
- no one told me.
1 learns something every day.
I laughed thruout :-)

Ain't I supposed 2 B retarded?
Every1 said I was intelligent,
well eventually U believe them, if told enough.

(well very shy & terrified of people perhaps
they missed out, but never realised)

That's probably why I know
a couple of things about ASD.
I never was concious of it until
I was 44y old.
But mainly I just echo others.
but I don't know always what they're saying.

My own condition has been regressive.
I struggle 2 survive every minute,
hence the humour 2 cover the pain.
Signed Joe King <with smile ;-)>