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Post by pieter on Mar 8, 2018 15:19:09 GMT -7
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Post by karl on Mar 8, 2018 19:39:13 GMT -7
Pieter
What a wonderful story of a child locked in his mind by a terrible affliction that my self do not understand. To the extent, this family went through trying to understand and by a fluke whilst riding a horse, found the key that unlocks this little boys mind to then open up. Then upon this event, to take the risk of taking the little boy to a strange land of strange culture, but one that uses horses in their culture.
A very tender and loving family story.
Karl
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Post by Jaga on Mar 8, 2018 22:20:50 GMT -7
Pieter,
beautiful story. I was always intriqued by Mongolia, since it is such an enigmatic country and in the past it was a part of Soviet empire. I also had several autistic people to deal with. Some of my experience with these people is very difficult. It is good to be able to affect positively the boy when there is still time for it.
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Post by pieter on Mar 9, 2018 11:29:05 GMT -7
Dear Jaga,
I am curious for your experience with autistic people, because I know them too in Arnhem. You have many different kinds of autism, and you can't just say 'an autistic person'. I can get along very well with some 'Asperger' people in Arnhem, they have the Asperger syndrome (AS). As a milder autism spectrum disorder (ASD), it differs from other ASDs by relatively normal language and intelligence. Although not required for diagnosis, physical clumsiness and unusual use of language are common.
The video under this sentence is a video interview I made with a very nice young man with autism who has Aspeger, who talks about his own openess over his autism, he told me that you have to be very open and clear about your autism, so that the autistic person can work better with non-autistic persons. He was a top sporter and work in sport training at a sport school for advanced sport education. He complained about a Dutch minister who called complaining citizens 'autists' in a degratory meaning.
I worked with two cameraman and editors who were and are autistic. One left, because he was to difficult. I miss him because he was a very good cameraman and reliable editor. But he was nearly impossible in social contact. Very egocentric, blunt, aggressive and rude sometimes. Angry at people he had to collaborate with , because he was extremely precice, rigid and thourough and critical of others. I could coop with him, but others didn't. Especially a female colleague became very nervous and stressed because of him.
Another guy is like him and stayed. He wants everything on his Edit PC to be exactly like he works. No updates, zero changes. Once Windows was upraged from an old version to a newer version, and the Google version was changed too and his Adobe setting was completely different than he was used to. His work settings were gone. He exploded, screaming, banging doors, extreme loud voice, an enormous inner rage came from him. His whole rigid order was distrurbed and it was as if he was panicking.
The word, and especially the complicated social human world is completely illogical for 'Autistic people', who want everything to be very organised, clear, and empty. You have to be empathic, understanding and knowing what autism is to be able to work with people with Asperger, PPD-NOS or Classical autism. The latter is the most difficult, classical autists have a very hard time adapting to the normal social world of non-Autistic people.
Cheers, Pieter
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Post by pieter on Mar 9, 2018 11:51:51 GMT -7
Jaga,
I maybe can understand you a tinyt little bit, because you also had several autistic people to deal with. I know that the difficulty with autism is that no autist is the same, and that different countries, with different health care systems, deal differently with these people. Autism is a very complicated illness, which in fact wasn't researched that long. The Austrian-American psychiatrist, physician, and social activist Leo Kanner (1894 – 1981) was best known for his work related to autism.
I understand that some of your experience with these people is very difficult. How did you encounter them? In Poland or in the USA? Were they colleagues, strangers, neighbours, family or acqaintences. It matters how you know and have to deal with Autistic people. In my experience with autists I know that many of them have very few contacts and some of them have zero social contacts, live alone and often stay alone most of their lives. They have a very hard time to connect. Often have difficulties in looking into your eyes (eye contact is important in human interaction and communication), they have difficulties with touching, and often have an extreme good hearing, smelling and tasting. They are different than other people and often tragically people don't like them, because they are considered annoying, irritating, strange and thus difficult.
In the Netherlands we have Leo Kanner Houses too
Cheers, Pieter
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Post by pieter on Mar 9, 2018 13:01:04 GMT -7
This staring of that teenage boy is typical Autistic. I wonder if he can drive a car?
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