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And of course, we have all heard by now that autistic children are even at only a few months old making less eye contact than their typically developing peers. (http://bit.ly/1baU3UR) This is not, of course, deterring the anti-vaxxers at all, and all sorts of people have jumped out of the woodwork to say lack of eye contact is caused by smart phones (and the moms that use them instead of looking at their kids), strollers (which face forward so that moms don't have to look at their kids), bottle feeding (because all moms prop the bottle while playing on their cell phones instead of looking at their kids), the Internet.... Well, point being, dads aren't getting any of this shit. I don't get it.
Over at the NYTimes version of that article you have one person basically proclaiming that eye contact is the crux of autism and that it must must must be normalized because "lots of people can't get a job because of eye contact". Now, I could buy that argument when it comes to speech (it is good to be able to communicate with others) or meltdowns (everybody prefers to have some way to deal with sensory overload and other issues before it gets to that point), but eye contact? How about this? How about we send every last hiring person a copy of the ADA and point out that few jobs actually require eye contact and ask them to stop being discriminatory already? Sheesh. Eye contact. It's not actually the be all and end all of human society.
Children Who Have Autism Far More Likely to Have Tummy Troubles
(Adults with autism far more likely to have grown out of the word tummy.)
http://bit.ly/179qLn2
You know, I thought we already knew that!
And of course, we have all heard by now that autistic children are even at only a few months old making less eye contact than their typically developing peers. (http://bit.ly/1baU3UR) This is not, of course, deterring the anti-vaxxers at all, and all sorts of people have jumped out of the woodwork to say lack of eye contact is caused by smart phones (and the moms that use them instead of looking at their kids), strollers (which face forward so that moms don't have to look at their kids), bottle feeding (because all moms prop the bottle while playing on their cell phones instead of looking at their kids), the Internet.... Well, point being, dads aren't getting any of this shit. I don't get it.
Over at the NYTimes version of that article you have one person basically proclaiming that eye contact is the crux of autism and that it must must must be normalized because "lots of people can't get a job because of eye contact". Now, I could buy that argument when it comes to speech (it is good to be able to communicate with others) or meltdowns (everybody prefers to have some way to deal with sensory overload and other issues before it gets to that point), but eye contact? How about this? How about we send every last hiring person a copy of the ADA and point out that few jobs actually require eye contact and ask them to stop being discriminatory already? Sheesh. Eye contact. It's not actually the be all and end all of human society.
Children Who Have Autism Far More Likely to Have Tummy Troubles
(Adults with autism far more likely to have grown out of the word tummy.)
http://bit.ly/179qLn2
You know, I thought we already knew that!
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Date: 2013-11-08 11:12 pm (UTC)Signed, aspie adult who's had an appropriate number of jobs despite not being forcibly coached in allistic eye contact norms
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Date: 2013-11-10 12:47 am (UTC)