Autism, redux
August 3rd, 2008 by park
As anyone who knows me knows, my fiance has this gift for working with autistic children. And I wish it was her full-time career, because seriously she’s good.
At any rate, it’s brought my attention to the matter of autism in general to a little more elevation. With that in mind anytime I see something eye catching regarding it, I tend to talk about it.
http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?page_id=2
That is a link to a weblog from a woman is in her late 20’s. She has lived with autism for her entire life, and while she has other health problems, is amazing because she is non-verbal. The website (and from what I gather, her personal typer) is her doorway to communication. And boy does she communicate. It’s an amazing glimpse into the mind of an autistic person.
I suspect in the future there may be more to this. It’s like the soldier who was shot in the stomach, and the doctor fixed the wound, but left a flap and used it to study the effects of eating and such. We learned alot from that tiny window about the way the body works. I suspect the same may be happening with autism.
In fact, here’s an interesting thought. What if autism is some sort of next-stage of change for us as a race? Someone compared it to the emergence of feathers on dinosaurs. There was no real clue as to their purpose, but then sometime later, they used them to fly. *shrugs* It’s an interesting thought at least. Until next time.