tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3203256752741667615.post5637710343044140209..comments2023-07-16T05:28:11.475-04:00Comments on The Autistic Me: Autism Therapies and The Autistic IndividualPoetCSWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12833522103074528608noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3203256752741667615.post-86760727563573616472011-06-16T21:03:22.234-04:002011-06-16T21:03:22.234-04:00There is a scene in Somebody Else's Kids which...There is a scene in <i>Somebody Else's Kids</i> which blows me away every time I read it.<br /><br />It is about an autistic named Boothe Birney Franklin.<br /><br />Boo is going to the dentist and his tongue is very hurt.<br /><br />The doctor says, "These people don't have feelings. Only what they imagine".<br /><br />If we could imagine away the pain, don't you think we <i>would</i>?<br /><br />I think therapies that took account of pain and distress would work well.<br /><br />And being slow and dizzy ... well, that's one of the most <i>un</i>-autistic things I can come up with. Something that I can see clearly as separate.<br /><br />And that most definitely takes in emotional distress. And there are ways, like fixing it or coping/regulating with it.<br /><br />Adasperdown wrote about how when she was a girl she wanted people to understand <i>all</i> her emotions, not just her distress.<br /><br />(She thought: seeing as people understand each other, and she was a person, why shouldn't they understand her?)<br /><br />Another thing: it would be good to find techniques that you can do apart and away from a therapist.<br /><br />And no confusion of roles.Adelaide Duponthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01490123934889071074noreply@blogger.com