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My colleague was supposed to give a pre-assembly talk on Autism today, but he’s sick and thus, out of action. So, I have to fill his shoes. Trying to shape my incoherent thoughts into a sparkling gem on the way to work.
There’s a great show called “Love on the Spectrum”. Spectrum means a range of positions between two extreme points. This means that every autistic person is different
Nonetheless, there are some useful ways to understand someone with autism:
  • hypersensitivity to sound (cover their ears because noises are amplified in their ears)
  • inability to make eye contact during conversations
  • inability to understand non-verbal expressions (they can’t tell that uou
  • bite things and scratch themselves (calm themselves down)
But we may have more in common than we think
Now that you understand more about how autistic people are different, let’s focus on the similarities. We may have more in common than we think. The following drawings are drawn by a dyslexic person, an ADHD person, and an autistic person respectively.
At the core of it all, dyslexia, ADHD and autism are just labels. Let’s focus on the fact that these talented individuals can draw.
In fact, look at this amazing autistic British artist. He was able to reproduce Singapore’s skyline from memory just by taking a helicopter ride for one hour. In Chinese, we have a saying: 天生我材必有用。It means that each of us has something unique to contribute to society.
Last but not least, I will like to leave you with these words from Pocahontas:
You think the only people who are people Are the people who look and think like you But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger You'll learn things you never knew, you never knew
@cryotosensei this your made had me making a little research on autism and I just got to realise it's a disorder.
And for the benefit of others who may still have not known, Autism spectrum disorder, or simply autism, is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by repetitive, restricted, and inflexible patterns of behavior, interests, and activities, as well as difficulties in social interaction and social communication.
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Sensei is happy to provoke learning! Thanks for making me happy
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24 sats \ 2 replies \ @398ja 29 Apr
On a related note — Last Sunday I overheard a conversation between two ladies, and one of them mentioned that she was planning to visit her adult autistic son, who had been in institutional care since he was 15. That was such a coincidence I thought, because I had recently been reading a several blog posts on autism...
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It’s like the Universe conspires to make you think about people with autism, huh?
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Absolutely, lol
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We have few talks about autism in our schools here, though it should.
Here's an article #958835 on Autism rates I read the other day and shared it here. It surely made a few points clear to me about the understanding of Autism.
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I’m sad to read that autism is associated with lower lifespans ;(
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Autism is a very strange / special illness (yes, it is an illness and not a disability). Autistic people require a special way of being treated, but you can find common ground with them, and almost all of them are very good at something...
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