Autism: A
Renaissance
In
one of our earliest sections on this website entitled ‘So Who’s Normal?’, we
suggested that ‘it may be a good idea to look closer to home (than the
neurologist/geneticist/psychologist) and give floor space to accomodating
autists themselves’(capable of explaining autism). It is pleasing to note that the biggest
change in the academic world of autism is that people are starting to listen to
the people who have autism for some of the answers. - a message that was
conveyed loud and clear at the Glasgow 2000 Autism Europe Conference in
May.
Consciousness
is changing, it cannot be any other way.
The autistic Renaissance which we announced in April, is
underway.
The Same But Different
Although
autism is, intrinsically, the same in every autistic person, it is different in
as much as every autist is also an individual in the physical sense, therefore
it is difficult to always offer help to any parent with an autistic child simply
because each child’s genetics are different. You cannot give exactly the same help to
any two parents.
The
paradox is that autists are all the same, but different. Why? Why do atoms choose to stick together to
assemble a chair and be seperate from the atoms that stick together to make the
table by its side, and different yet again from the atoms that cling together to
provide the floor that the chair and table stand upon?
Malcolm
& Avril Jenson in their private capacity invite comments and can be
contacted at the following email address… malcolm.jenson@ntlworld.com