tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23662617.post-71538641941592656862008-04-12T15:49:00.000-07:002008-04-12T15:49:00.000-07:00WEll, in the last regard, welcome to the club, John; if I was dxed as autie in any way as a child, it was never communicated to me. <BR/><BR/>Amusingly enough, all therapy stopped the moment the words "family therapy" were uttered.<BR/><BR/>But your speculation regarding abuse - well, I consider it probable, and that it is quite likely he's "AC" - on the spectrum in some sense - himself.<BR/><BR/>Of course, this simply goes to show the wide variation among AS persons, making it difficult to point to a "stereotypical aspie."<BR/><BR/>That, and the terrible results of a sharp mind condemned to the usage of dull tools - eg, the evident lack of critical thinking skills, the use of circular logic, the idea that a DSM entry is actually a definition of "insanity," (and the touching implication that the process is straightforward and objective.)<BR/><BR/>If you assume that, you might be hellaciously confused as to why Multiple Personality Disorder does not exist in the United States. <BR/><BR/>Really. No multiple personalities here. We only have Dissociative Identity Disorder, which is defined as a delusion that one has more than one personality.<BR/><BR/>Turns out it was a political struggle between theorists and practitioners, and the theorists won here, and not there. <BR/><BR/>Oh, and actual multis were not consulted in any recognized capacity. (We are rather well represented within the profession, but as far as I'm aware, not one has disclosed.)<BR/><BR/>One of the reasons I find this all so mind-numbingly tedius is this is the third time on the ride for me. First, the whole question of sexual abuse and recovered memory. Second, the whole explosion of awareness about Multiple Personality. Third; this.<BR/><BR/>And it's all SOSDD. In the first two, most of the same players were involved, this time around, I don't recogize so many names, but the same pattern of authoritarian outrage is identical.<BR/><BR/>And interestingly enough - as you point out - the abuse of children, or as they would put it, the proper right of a family to raise children as they see fit without "interference" by "busybodies" who<BR/>think that children are people with "rights."<BR/> <BR/>Few will publicly defend things like beatings, incest and electroshock therapy = but privately, when they think they are in friendly company - all three are defended or even promoted. Not by all - but each by some and the more outraged and pro-active, the more likely they will be defending behavior that is indefensible, even if not unquestionably illegal - such as sending kids to known snakepit schools to be brainwashed (or worse) into compliance with parental demands.<BR/><BR/>It's really a shame that many of these parents were not treated with the luperon protocol themselves.Bob Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12331371505961522315noreply@blogger.com