A friend just told me about this:
"The people you might see sitting in a chair, rocking back and forth are ones with severe autism. Just remember this. If you ever see someone with autism who is rocking back and forth, and is unable to communicate audibly via their mouth and or hand gestures. Don't be surprised if they are smarter that you and me put together . There is this one guy who is like this. They thought he was unable to think. Turns out that for some reason he lacks the ability to speak like you and me. Yet has the uncanny ability to think and reason far better than most people and has published many books."
I saw a video of a guy who didn't speak, from the outside one would say he looked handicapped. He would speak in ways you see toddlers do when they learn to speak. But when he sat down at the piano, he was a master. It was like an ability he had was just getting unleashed. I though maybe he is unable to think like us, but he has abilities superhumane. I'm so impressed and glad that was a wrong way to think of it. They can think not only like us, but above our level. Which is incredible.
So that means even the kids with severe autism or what we call "low functioning autism" can actually be super geniuses.
Maybe most of them are.
And maybe that's also why there is no high or low functioning now, there is just ASD as a diagnosis. Because maybe we didn't understand that it's not an intelligence level, its actually how severe their lack of social skills is.
Which in turn makes them "look" like they cant think, but it's very untrue.
I'm very excited this is the case.
Spreading the word!!!
"The people you might see sitting in a chair, rocking back and forth are ones with severe autism. Just remember this. If you ever see someone with autism who is rocking back and forth, and is unable to communicate audibly via their mouth and or hand gestures. Don't be surprised if they are smarter that you and me put together . There is this one guy who is like this. They thought he was unable to think. Turns out that for some reason he lacks the ability to speak like you and me. Yet has the uncanny ability to think and reason far better than most people and has published many books."
I saw a video of a guy who didn't speak, from the outside one would say he looked handicapped. He would speak in ways you see toddlers do when they learn to speak. But when he sat down at the piano, he was a master. It was like an ability he had was just getting unleashed. I though maybe he is unable to think like us, but he has abilities superhumane. I'm so impressed and glad that was a wrong way to think of it. They can think not only like us, but above our level. Which is incredible.
So that means even the kids with severe autism or what we call "low functioning autism" can actually be super geniuses.
Maybe most of them are.
And maybe that's also why there is no high or low functioning now, there is just ASD as a diagnosis. Because maybe we didn't understand that it's not an intelligence level, its actually how severe their lack of social skills is.
Which in turn makes them "look" like they cant think, but it's very untrue.
I'm very excited this is the case.
Spreading the word!!!
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