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BeHereNow

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5. Bravo...

Reply to boppers (Reply #4)

Sun Dec 18, 2011, 07:41 AM

Dec 2011

bhn
Who loves one autistic who knows EVERYTHING about airplanes, and another who carries the
complete history of pirates in his brain, and yet another who knows the birth date of everyone he has ever met.
Autistics ROCK.
And shame on a society that does not value unique intelligence.
I am the aunt of two autistic boys, and I can not find anyone I'd rather
talk to...XO

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LA Times: Autism hidden in plain sight (article about adult autism) [View all] steve2470 Dec 2011 OP

link? proud2BlibKansan Dec 2011 #1

sorry ! brain fart ! steve2470 Dec 2011 #2

so ultimately how well does ABA therapy work? It seems the jury is still out on that StarsInHerHair Dec 2011 #3

We fix your computers. boppers Dec 2011 #4

Bravo... BeHereNow Dec 2011 #5

+1 mmonk Dec 2011 #6

+1,000,000,000,000,000,000 Odin2005 Dec 2011 #8

I take a little umbrage at that asessment. Ikonoklast Dec 2011 #12

ASD is a huge range. boppers Dec 2011 #13

What Boppers said. Odin2005 Dec 2011 #15

Interesting, that would explain a lot IDemo Dec 2011 #9

There's a lot of self-diagnosis out there. boppers Dec 2011 #11

It would just help my understanding of myself IDemo Dec 2011 #14

So much for the BS spewed by the Anti-Vax idiots. Odin2005 Dec 2011 #7

Kick for more opinions eom boppers Dec 2011 #10