From: "Michael Harney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Autism Article L3 Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 17:43:51 -0600
From: "Jon Gabriel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> For someone like me, who is relatively unfamiliar with autism, the article
> was helpful. (Well, except where (as you pointed out,) it was misleading
or
> insulting to the autistic.)
>
> Your comments were *very* helpful. Thanks for going into such detail.
>
Sorry for getting a little ranty about it, but I have a few pet peves and
one of them is someone saying "Autistic people lack emotions/empathy." Both
are commonly said, and both are *very* wrong and agravate me to no end.
No need to apologize. You feel strongly about it for obvious reasons.
Besides, you're right! :-)
Jon
Le Blog: http://zarq.livejournal.com
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