Haven't seen this before

[conuly]

http://www.aspergerjourneys.com/2009/06/02/intense-world-syndrome/

I'm feeling inexplicably exhausted right now, so I'm not going to read it just yet, I'll do that later.

Comments

[queenlyzard.livejournal.com]

This is quite fascinating indeed. It makes a lot of intuitive sense to me, given what little I know about autism (mostly from people like you, Connie). Of course, the intuitive findings are always the ones that require the most proof, in my book.

This theory does go a long way towards explaining, however, why milder versions of autism can be so closely linked with impressive intellectual abilities and only the more severe versions are a true "disability." Like ADD, perhaps, autistic characteristics are in many ways highly adaptive ones-- but, as always, too much of a good thing can be a right disaster.

Best of all, it seems likely that this approach to understanding autism provides a lot more possibility for -- well, I don't want to use the term "treating" it -- but I think the more we understand about why autistic kids withdraw, get stuck, and find the world too difficult to handle, the more we'll be able to find ways to help them accommodate. For starters, it seems like the obvious first step for any autistic child is to keep them in as low-stimulation an environment as possible, at least to begin with, and work from there.