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	Amazon.com: "many autists": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Key Phrases: Orthogenic School, Donna Williams, Temple Grandin, Oliver Sacks, Jane Taylor, Little Rolly, young autists, autistic charges, autists lack, other autists, many autists, autistic youth (see more)
		His imita- tions of accent or tone of voice are exact.
		Be that as it may, many autists manifest severe impairment in their intellectual, practical, and emotional capacities, and hence are non- rational; and the autistic language savants...
	www.amazon.com /phrase/many-autists (314 words)

	Frederica Mathewes-Green on Autism, Autistic Children, God, Communicating with Autists, Christian Prayer -- ...
		The most that two people can be is two planets in a common orbit, and it's at the happiest of times that we recognize this limitation.
		The problem that autists have with other people is just an extreme form of the alienation that troubles us all.
		Autists have a bad case of the Human Condition.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/163/story_16308_1.html (1069 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Autists are distinguished by abnormally low (although occasionally very high) intelligence, highly unusual emotional behaviour and responses, severe language and communication difficulties, and an across-the-board inability to function in social situations in accordance with standard norms and conventions.
		The autist will point to the box where the chocolate was placed by Mary because he or she will have failed to grasp the significance of Sally's having been duped in her absence.
		However, if autists could also be shown to be blind to the mentalistic significance of the human voice or touch for instance, we may have revealed a clue as to the causes of autism which is simple enough and sufficiently finely-grained to be plausible and convincing as the loci of the problem.
	www.robertwhelan.com /AUTISM.htm (3150 words)

	Asperger's syndrome - Medical Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Autists (or autistics) do not have this ability, and the individual with Asperger's can be every bit as "mind-blind" as the person with profound classical autism.
		Autists have emotional responses as strong as, or perhaps stronger than, most "neurotypicals", though what generates an emotional response might not always be the same.
		Many autists are married and have children, their children may be neurotypical or have an autism spectrum disorder.
	www.nursingstudy.com /encyclopedia/Aspergers_syndrome.html (2196 words)

	Congress Autism-Europe Barcelona96. Proceedings.
		I would like to emphasize that any surgical operation that does not respect the concepts of "pathological nature", and "for the benefit of the patient" should be considered a non therapeutical action, but some kind of mutilation.
		Between 1991 and 1994, we operated 10 young Autists: 6 f emales and 4 males, aged between 17 and 27 (average = 19).
		Surgery's main goal is to improve certain specific symptoms, as is the case of aggressiveness and, if succesful, may facilitate the development of potencial skills.
	www.autismo-br.com.br /home/Artig077.htm (1181 words)

	EnfantsTerribles
		At some point in her conversation with Oliver Sacks, the well-known autist Temple Grandin remarks that she could logically infer that a colleague was jealous of her because she noticed that he was sabotaging her work, but she said that she could not see any jealous look on his face.
		However, although autists can exhibit aggressive behaviour as a consequence of their deficiencies, autism is not characterised by aggressive behaviour.
		Thus, although autists apply rules too rigidly and are incapable of weighing interests appropriately, they seem to be moral agents in a Kantian sense of the term, precisely because they have such a rigid view of the world.
	flatrock.org.nz /topics/science/morality_and_the_brain.htm (7406 words)

	'An exploration of the major cognitive theories of Autism, with particular emphasis in its evolutionary implications.' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Autists may be delayed in the development of the second type of understanding, and their grasp of the first is at best hazy.
		If the autist succeed in performing this task, this would support the theory of mind hypothesis strongly as the only explanation would be that the autists do not appreciate that others around him are capable of 'knowing' information, i.e.
		Autists are also found to be relatively immune to effects of visual illusions [55], because they are not misled by contextual cues present in for example the Muller-Lyer illusion [82, 51], the Ponzo illusion, or the Tichener circles [77].
	www.lexcie.zetnet.co.uk /psych-dissert-release-ed.htm (11247 words)

	New Page 3
		Autistics.org tells of one autist who is losing skills as an adult, and another who had two notable 'regressions'- one as a young child and another in the teens.
		Autists seem capable of learning and adapting long after their NT peers have come to a standstill.
		Far more informative would be to understand more about why autists are more/ less sensitive than the normal population and develop a way to identify the infants who need a later/ different immunisation program, or simply who shouldn't be immunised at all, because their increased sensitivity means they may be damaged by it.
	www.silvercuckoo.com /Bethsarticles/Oct2004.htm (1187 words)

	Chaos Node online journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Not so: This study showed that 90% of the autists were born in the state.
		A few days ago I learned about the larger brains of the autists (who are usually boys), and suddenly I am not sure about what is cause and what is effect in my grandmother's case of difficult birth.
		The final piece was a short news piece that among the Californian autists, a disproportionate number had mothers working in the Silicon Valley information industry.
	home.online.no /~itlandm/di030116.html (1472 words)

	Book Review
		He is part of the last generation of autists who were not essentially "cured" in vitro or during infancy.
		He works for a pharmaceutical company, along with other high-functioning autists, as a code pattern recognition analyst - a profession in which he and the other autists are exceptionally successful.
		The primary plot conflict in the book involves the pharmaceutical company's attempt to force the autists to undergo experimental treatment to "cure" their autism (and the why's and how's of this procedure).
	www.allreaders.com /BookRView.asp?BRID=62806 (193 words)

	Take On The Web: 03/20/2005 - 03/26/2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This might seem odd, but it is the professionals who have an opinion about how autists should behave, and when not fitting the mold, the professional usually assumes his or her ideas are right, and the display of emotions by the autist are nothing more than an anomaly.
		Instead, the autist, if he or she is any smart, will behave as expected when around professionals, because that is the path of the least resistance, and fighting over how to behave would deter from the objectives of whatever you are engaging in with the professional.
		Truth be told, there are some professionals who do not feel "attacked" (for lack of a better word), when an autist displays emotions, those are the nicests one to work with, because instead of taking care not to shatter the worldview of the professional, you can ignore your own quirks and do some business.
	blog.anti-originals.com /archive/2005_03_20__archive.html (1011 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Blaming mothers for autism - A855858
		With all the time available to the well-funded developmental psychologists who have for thirty years made infancy their playground, Hobson lovingly recounts his many experiments detailing the social handicaps of autistic children.
		It is thus that mothers of autists have lately been spared the burdens of guilt which psychiatrists typically heaped upon them around 1960.
		This is very wise of Hobson, for considered opinion long ago became that the mothers of actual autists had no need for shame.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/alabaster/A855858 (988 words)

	Auditory Integration Training (AIT) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		AIT for autists took off in the U.S. after the publication of the book "The sound of a Miracle" by Annabel Stehli.
		It even turned out that autists presumed not to suffer from hearing problems could benefit as much from the treatment as those with demonstrable peaks in their audiogram.
		Of those for whom an audiogram could be made, it was found that the larger the improvements on the audiogram, the greater also the improvements in behaviour.
	www.oprit.rug.nl /paul/AIT_UK/overait_uk.html (2229 words)

	Bookreporter.com - BETWEEN THEIR WORLD AND OURS by Karen Zelan
		Zelan is both an assister and an advocate for autists and, as is often the case with such individuals, may go a bit overboard.
		Her statement near the end of her work that "(A)utism, as lived out, is not so much a disease as it is a social condition" is certainly one with which reasonable and educated minds could differ.
		The world makes demands; a program that prods, however gently, the autist to adapt to the world would appear to be more beneficial to the autist than having the autist's world adapt to him or her.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0312313756.asp (501 words)

	The obsessions of autists \| The Guardian \| Guardian Unlimited
		Obsessive behaviour is one of the commonest traits of autism, and one of the least understood.
		For most autists, however, their obsession is not "useful"; it is an end in itself.
		In young autists an absorption in the works of the late, great Rev W Awdry is almost universal.
	www.guardian.co.uk /parents/story/0,3605,502235,00.html (890 words)

	Mind the gap - I am fascinated by autism and love my sons, but it is relentless. I cope by making sure I still have a ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		As autism is a spectrum disorder, autists exhibit wildly differing traits.
		Their idiosyncrasies, deficits, and abilities can make one autist almost as unlike another as he is from a non-autistic person.
		But if autists themselves often have little in common, there is one experience that unites all their parents: being asked the question "how do you cope?"
	www.vaccinationnews.com /DailyNews/2003/May/18/MindTheGap18.htm (879 words)

	The Enneagram Institute Discussion Board - Autism: extrovert and introvert autists
		Posted - 16 Aug 2006 : 4:59:48 PM Of course, autism is a typical introversion disorder, because an autist is purely fixated on the own ego, like the emotional intelligence of a 2 year old.
		I see the (pathological of course) INTP as typical autist; some INTJ's are misdiagnosed as autists when really the problem is an underlying schizophrenia, which can be very mild.
		Of course, autism is a typical introversion disorder, because an autist is purely fixated on the own ego, like the emotional intelligence of a 2 year old.
	www.enneagraminstitute.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=13607 (1134 words)

	AutismEng (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It is difficult for autists to perceive inputs from environment and from people.
		Communication so common for us is very difficult for autists, it is abstract and unintelligible, so they prefer existence in the world of objects and in their own world.
		On the other hand, there is a method which is able to fully bring a lot of autists from their world to ours.
	robin.mokranovci.net /Medic/AutismEng.html (449 words)

	Michael Williams -- Master of None: Alien Minds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		One of the differences between psychopaths, autists, and regular people is that the former two groups can't project their emotions onto others -- they have no empathy.
		To an autist, having a conversation is like watching TV: they aren't "interacting" with you.
		I suspect from what I've read that I share some mental characteristics with Steven Den Beste as far as holistic ("Emphasizing the importance of the whole and the interdependence of its parts.") reasoning and distain for irrelevant details, and I imagine these qualities are present in greater to lesser degrees in all successful engineers.
	www.mwilliams.info /archives/004383.php (1051 words)

	The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon - an infinity plus review
		These special extras naturally attract the attention of a freshly imported hard-nosed self-ordained management-efficiency expert, Crenshaw, as the autists' boss; he can see the autists only as sick people, and the extras that they require for their efficient working only as an erosion of profits.
		Crenshaw, as noted, is one of those who regards the autists as crippled; despite all the statistics about their division's high profitability, he chooses to regard the corporation's employment of them as an act of charity -- one whose limits should be far constrained from the current ones, with that expensive gym an' all.
		Arrendale is of course perfectly aware -- he is extremely intelligent, something else that the Crenshaws of this world fail to perceive, blinded as they are by his status as an autist -- that the velocity of light in free space is a known, established quantity.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/speedofdark.htm (1146 words)

	The Chronicle: 3/5/2004: Men, Empathy, and Autism
		Some parents of autists have charged that mercury-containing vaccines caused their children's disorder, but most researchers, including Mr.
		Autistic kids will often repeat the same words or phrases over and over, or immerse themselves in weirdly narrow interests, spinning to the sound of a rock album until they drop or else, perhaps, staring at a leaf on a tree until the sun goes down.
		Baron-Cohen and his colleagues at the autism center have documented that children who experienced high-prenatal testosterone levels make less eye contact as toddlers and have lower communication skills at age 4, though he admits the evidence for any relationship between fetal testosterone and autism has yet to be established.
	chronicle.com /free/v50/i26/26a01201.htm (2572 words)

	/drives/f/httpd/web/psych-autism.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Even though a small proportion of high-functioning autists pass this test, they are nevertheless unable to pass the second-order false belief test, i.e.
		Whether this means there is a subclass of autists with a theory of mind or if they have simply learnt to do these tests remains to be seen.
		Although not part of the standard criteria of diagnosis, autistic children often show very specific islets of near-normal ability in areas such as mathematics and precision drawing, against a background of their generally retarded cognitive profile and low IQ.
	www.lexcie.zetnet.co.uk /psych-autism.htm (1337 words)

	CEA - Life Science Division - Autism
		For this purpose the brain activity of five autistic adults and eight healthy volunteers was recorded when they listened to sound sequences alternating human voices (speech, cries, laughs, sobs, singing) and other types of nonvocal sounds (animals, bells, musical instruments, cars, etc.).
		In addition, when asked to say what they heard during the test, the autists reported only 8.5% of vocal sounds against 51.5% for the controls, confirming their poor ability to recognise human voices.
		These anomalies in voice and face processing are evidence that the difficulties autists experience in understanding other people's emotional states and in interacting with them may be linked to a deficit in perceiving social stimuli.
	www-dsv.cea.fr /content/cea_eng/avan/actu04_autisme.htm (645 words)

	Fichtenhaus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The inhabitants, among them five autists, require much care and tolerance to the peculiarities of their behavior.
		Here, the form of the mini-home offers the possibility to give time and attention to the needs, the strengths and the weaknesses of the inhabitants.
		Since many autists cannot speak or can only speak a few words, it isn't possible for them to talk about their own feelings or to converse with other persons.
	www.hayes.de /fichte02.htm (352 words)

	Chaos Node online journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		When I was a kid, an autist would still be classified as mentally retarded, since he (it is usually a boy) did not speak normally, if at all.
		There is, as the article pointed out, a somewhat slippery slope between autists and common nerds, such as computer programmers.
		For what it's worth, not all countries use mercury in their vaccines, and the autists still pop up.
	home.online.no /~itlandm/di030107.html (1013 words)

	Amazon.com: "many autists": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		His imita- tions of accent or tone of voice are exact.
		She has autism, a bewildering neurological disability that involves overly acute perceptions and easily triggered fears.
		Like many autists, she is hypersensitive to certain sights and sounds and therefore empathizes with cattle who balk at the reflection of light...
	amazon.com /phrase/many-autists (337 words)

	Welcome to KindTree Productions, Inc.
		Scheduled activities include a two-hour seminar on autism, led either by an autist or professional working with autists; an improv theater-games free-for-all for everybody on and off the spectrum; swimming and boating on Siltcoos Lake.
		Autists are accepted and enjoyed for themselves, not forced into a procrustean neuro-normal mold.
		We celebrate our artists with a gala opening, giving neuro-normal people a chance to rub elbows with some notable autists, and autists palpable proof of their self-worth and a market for their art.
	www.kindtree.org /aboutus.html (2012 words)

	Test Your Information Processing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		I programmed them to find out if at least part of the difference between normal and autistic people that has been found in studies will emerge in public internet tests, under much less controlled conditions.
		The most meaningful variables on the results page are those that show a similar difference between NTs and Autists to the one that has been found in the studies.
		At the time of this writing, the most reliable variable in this regard seems to be the "Cue Validity Effect" in the cueing test.
	garriond.netfirms.com /tests.html (242 words)

	Biblio files: talking about books
		A general history of autists and autism is interlaced with his account of how his son was treated and dealt with.
		He chooses only to present the theory that autism is genetic, finding evidence in his own family, rather than present other theories on autism, which is especially strange because of the fact that the incidence of autism is rising exponentially.
		Collins chooses the most innocuous autists to cover, going so far as to say that you won't generally find autists in jail; however there are many dangerously irresponsible autists in jail.
	bibliofiles.blogspot.com /2004_11_01_bibliofiles_archive.html (4383 words)

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