tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22240007.post6648992884544790769..comments2024-01-24T11:20:46.055+00:00Comments on in regione caecorum rex est luscus: The Amanda Baggs controversyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22240007.post-53594196901583352062010-05-10T14:32:33.850+01:002010-05-10T14:32:33.850+01:00Doesn't Amanda also claim to be non-verbal? Sh...<i>Doesn't Amanda also claim to be non-verbal? She's non-verbal but NOT LFA.<br /><br />Yeah, that makes perfect sense.</i><br /><br />What autism scientists generally call LFA has to do with cognition, not speech. So yes, that's entirely plausible.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22240007.post-85144656787996121222010-05-09T00:04:08.308+01:002010-05-09T00:04:08.308+01:00The author said...
There are any number of contro...The author said...<br /><br />There are any number of controversies, as many as there are blogs.<br /><br />One at the moment is whether I should allow John Best's last post through. I have decided not to, because it contributes nothing new and is an unsubstantiated supposition. One that would serve only to prolong a proxy war of the kind I am trying to avoid, having seen how destructive thatLarry Arnold PhD FRSAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05074432718592268750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22240007.post-16865752475533471292010-05-08T21:42:19.942+01:002010-05-08T21:42:19.942+01:00The Amanda Baggs "controversy" is about ...The Amanda Baggs "controversy" is about as meaningful as the vaccine causation "controversy." Neither has any merit. Each is supported by a band of "true believers" and a larger number of people who are quite happy to use the "controversy" as a means of detracting from the conversations that really matter. <br /><br />As she said here, as she has said over Bevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06766614739853100172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22240007.post-54901534814221850442010-05-08T21:36:42.415+01:002010-05-08T21:36:42.415+01:00There is no "Amanda Baggs controversy." ...There is no "Amanda Baggs controversy." There has been a concerted effort by a few individuals to discredit Amanda. This has been spread over the internet and those who are hostile to the concepts of autism acceptance and neurodiversity have swallowed it whole. Others may have been taken in by it but there is no excuse for persisting in false beliefs once the truth as been pointed out, mike stantonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13718362491689089037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22240007.post-46387747142359721912010-05-08T20:13:26.453+01:002010-05-08T20:13:26.453+01:00I think after the statement Amanda first made, she...I think after the statement Amanda first made, she should not have to get drawn into an extended slanging match arguing the same points over, and over again.<br /><br />I've just posted this comment to my own blog, and I hope it's ok to re-post it here.<br /><br /><i>It's simply that They (the hfa's predominently) have a lot invested in the idea of a lfa who is extremely Socrateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12525104555859213125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22240007.post-50820318103779369102010-05-08T19:13:09.936+01:002010-05-08T19:13:09.936+01:00Doesn't Amanda also claim to be non-verbal? S...Doesn't Amanda also claim to be non-verbal? She's non-verbal but NOT LFA.<br /><br />Yeah, that makes perfect sense.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22240007.post-37557063829596319692010-05-08T16:54:07.860+01:002010-05-08T16:54:07.860+01:00I didn't "regress in my late teens"....I didn't "regress in my late teens". I lost some skills rather slowly starting when I was about 12 and continuing to this day. The thing people most care about is speech. And that started with short periods of being unable to speak. I was sent to a neurologist and neuropsychologist about this by age 13. By age 15 it happened enough for my psychiatrist to write an accommodations Amandanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22240007.post-30861733100123393672010-05-08T14:35:10.236+01:002010-05-08T14:35:10.236+01:00Larry,
Does Digby cure autism? No? Then he has n...Larry,<br />Does Digby cure autism? No? Then he has no business pretending he knows anything about mercury poisoning misdiagnosed as autism.John Besthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03133970669787632440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22240007.post-85392040447794200692010-05-08T14:26:54.133+01:002010-05-08T14:26:54.133+01:00Larry,
It's time I enrolled at Birmingham...
...Larry,<br /><br />It's time I enrolled at Birmingham...<br /><br />And yes, I agree - I could be Donald.Socrateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12525104555859213125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22240007.post-27399638156894142612010-05-08T14:13:00.404+01:002010-05-08T14:13:00.404+01:00Socrates - What is a "Kanner's" Auti...Socrates - What is a "Kanner's" Autistic.<br /><br />That one is a big bugbear of mine, because what is often described bears no relation to what Kanner wrote, you or I could easily have fitted with his profile. As I recall Pat Howlin goes into detail with regard to what happened to the original participants in his study, in later life. <br /><br />Foresam, you don't have to Larry Arnold PhD FRSAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05074432718592268750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22240007.post-35205833316353552602010-05-08T02:51:48.188+01:002010-05-08T02:51:48.188+01:00From living with a low-functioning autistic kid fo...From living with a low-functioning autistic kid for 13 years, I could do a much better job of imitating autism with no practice. Her attempt to portray autistic stimming is very poor acting.John Besthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03133970669787632440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22240007.post-73616281760399609802010-05-08T01:53:20.182+01:002010-05-08T01:53:20.182+01:00I don't use the term to describe myself nor an...I don't use the term to describe myself nor anyone else. I have repeated this ad infinitum (good grief my entire Autreat presentation is about the messed up nature of functioning labels). What I do claim the right to do is describe myself as someone who has been labeled that (and severe) by professionals, and someone who people often look at and call that whether I will it or not and whether Amandanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22240007.post-88662547777817991872010-05-07T23:16:06.308+01:002010-05-07T23:16:06.308+01:00Joseph,
I have read a lot of your work and it app...Joseph,<br /><br />I have read a lot of your work and it appears to an ignoramus like me, to be first class.<br /><br />I can only ask you apply the same standards to this situation and there is a great deal of information in the public domain on which to base your conclusions.<br /><br />I ask you, how many times have you come across someone that has had such a profound regression in their late Socrateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12525104555859213125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22240007.post-45906635006298444882010-05-07T22:35:25.451+01:002010-05-07T22:35:25.451+01:00I also don't think of Amanda as "low func...I also don't think of Amanda as "low functioning" these days, but that's because I'm acostumed to the formal definition of the term as it used in the literature. I think that needs to be qualified by saying that Amanda's definition of "low functioning" (if indeed she uses that term to describe herself) might be entirely different.<br /><br />What's most Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22240007.post-40522425510058686342010-05-07T21:00:07.772+01:002010-05-07T21:00:07.772+01:00A good post clay.
With you Thoreau with me Willia...A good post clay.<br /><br />With you Thoreau with me William Morris.<br /><br />He was a complex character and no doubt. A serious political campaigner, but at other times away with the fairies with his other pre Raphaelite associates.<br /><br />Indeed one wonders if there would have been the Tolkein we know, but for Morris, who translated the Icelandic Sagas and wrote fantasy fiction about &Larry Arnold PhD FRSAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05074432718592268750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22240007.post-59061951310162514092010-05-07T20:32:18.719+01:002010-05-07T20:32:18.719+01:00@ Larry - Good point about the teenaged fantasies....@ Larry - Good point about the teenaged fantasies. When I first read "Walden" in 11th or 12th grade, I was so struck by similarities in thinking that I briefly thought that I might have been him - reincarnated! But nah, he and I are just similar in many ways. <br /><br />I haven't known Amanda quite as long as you have, only since Feb 2000. In all that I've read of her, and the Clayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09424036357963352399noreply@blogger.com