Autistic Personality and Theory of Mind
This last December, I was happy to receive a Christmas video of a dear family that showcased their autistic son (let’s call him Andy). A few years ago, during the […]
Tag Archives: theory of mind
The Autistic Buddha
I finished reading The Autistic Buddha by Thomas Clements. It is a short book (204 pages) published by Your Stories Matter in England. The paperback edition can be bought from […]
The Tension between Classic Autism and Asperger
This Blog is written by a person with autism who is a careful observer of the Spectrum scene. Claudia Mazzucco is a writer, researcher, historian, editor and teacher of the […]
Virtual Reality in Autism
Impairments in social communication skills and deficient social and emotional competence are thought to be core deficits of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In recent years, several assistive technologies, […]
Paul Isaacs y su Libro
El libro de Paul Isaacs, “Living Through the Haze”, ha sido publicado en su segunda edición. El libro tiene un nuevo contenido, una nueva introducción y una reseña escrita por […]
Feral (Wild) Children and Autism
The recent publication of “In a Different Key” by John Donvan and Caren Zucker has revived accounts of historical precedents of autism in feral children. This idea was borne out […]
Adolescence as a risk factor for depression in autism
It has been said that you can’t understand a mind except in the context of the world it lives in. Often an inability to shift your frame of reference may […]
Memory traces and autism
The ability to multitask is of great importance in present day society. Our environment bombards each of us with important cues and signals from both the external and internal world. […]
Ludwig Wittgenstein echa por tierra la teoria de la mente en el autismo
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein nació el 26 de abril de 1889 en Viena, Austria a una familia de grandes recursos económicos. Tres de sus hermanos se suicidaron y el propio […]
A frame of mind: the problem with neurotypicals
In previous articles, as well as in previous blogs (see http://bit.ly/1iT0BJq), I have written about differences in the blueprint of connectivity of the brain (so-called connectome) that ingrain autistics with […]
Cortical Chauvinism 