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katrina85

A cure for autism? O_o

Feb 20, 2007 17:22

I have a program on my phone that allows me to check different news websites daily. I like to look at NPR, Woot, The New England Journal of Medicine, etc. Every once in a while there is something on there that really blows me away. Today I was on Slashdot and saw this ( Read more... )

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_morniel_ February 21 2007, 05:29:07 UTC

Dude. You so read my mind.
I think a group of people who all research a topic ahead of time and then meet to compare their views and notes would be wonderful!
It would allow everyone to get to see things from other peoples viewpoints and come to more fully understand the different sides of it.

Too often people make up their minds and forget that the people who don't agree might have different information that they didn't think of.

Coffee Society?
What times or days are good?
Seriously. I'm so down for this.

katrina85 February 21 2007, 18:06:33 UTC

Angela! <3 *huggg*

Times that would work for me would be Monday after 5, Tuesday after 9, Wednesday after 5. I could possibly do Sunday after 6 too, but I'm waiting to see if my physics group pulls their act together and manages to actually contact me so we can set up study session days.

Really though, I'm glad you're interested! Can you think of anyone else who might like to come too? I'd like to get at least 4 people beside myself into this thing so that there can be a larger number of views expressed in the conversations. *insert happy excited dance here* I'll try to make a livejournal group so that we can come up with topics once a week and post them on their for everyone to look at. We'll see, but this is a start!

scythe_of_time February 21 2007, 17:36:09 UTC

I love you, and this (among other things) is why. Meeting for a "coffee society" once per week is the best idea since sliced bread, and I'm totally all over that bread.

katrina85 February 21 2007, 18:12:21 UTC

Oh me oh my! It's a you! *huggle* At first I was very confused, but now I know. ^_^ We have wonderful conversations anyway, so this can be an extension of that! Check out the times I listed above with Angela and let me know if any of them work for you. I'm thinking in this group we can even post multiple topics a week just in case one fails miserably.

Yeah, the meeting doesn't have to take place at coffee society, it was just a default place for me. Any other suggestions? I kind of like the idea of going out somewhere public because there have been times where I've had random people overhear a conversation and have something to say. I think that's just plain awesome.

Actually in addition to the times listed above I can probably do Thursday after 9 or so. I'm not sure if that's too late, but I figure I'll put it out there anyway just in case. Just let me know!

scythe_of_time February 21 2007, 18:22:27 UTC

Monday after 5 definitely works for me, and I second the motion that we converse in public (though I don't mind opening my studio to our discussion groups). Squee! I'm excited! :D We should have done this years ago.

katrina85 February 21 2007, 20:23:18 UTC

Of course, by coffee society I meant Coffee (e)Xchange. ^^;; Sorry, Coffee Society is a phoenix thing.

A Gift? alienchicken February 22 2007, 00:44:16 UTC

My Brother is actually diagnosed aspergers and i believe that it exists. I wasn't really sure what was going on with my little brother- but it was something. He's smart beyond reason, he can engineer anything and loves mathmatical and mechanical challenges; but he doesn't know how to act with other people... for example instead of saying "hey can i borrow you for a moment?" to get someones attention, he'll walk up and POKE whoever he wants to talk to ( ... )

Re: A Gift? katrina85 February 22 2007, 02:47:53 UTC

I hear where you're coming from. At the same time I guess I'm going back to the video I posted last time that you commented on, "In my Language" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnylM1hI2jc), with silentmiaow and her interaction with the world. I guess you really could say she doesn't know what she's missing because she hasn't experienced it. Really though I guess I am talking about this subject purely from the point of people with severe autism. It seems as though a lot of people with Aspergers have no desire to be "cured" and they are able to make that choice because they communicate well enough to make that known. For people who have more severe autism and are incapable of letting us know what they want, would we take their desires into our own hands ( ... )

Re: A Gift? scythe_of_time February 22 2007, 05:52:30 UTC

Hmm, interesting points -- both about the online job possibilties and about the terminology of being "cured." We live and learn in a radically different world than the one our parents went to college in ( ... )

strandsofchaos February 23 2007, 15:16:11 UTC

I'm in.