Disabilities Awareness: Asperger's Syndrome, neurodiversity

A bew word RantWoman has not previously thought about: neurodiversity. Do not take your chances on unfiltered RantWoman riffs. Look it up your own darn self.

RantWoman invites her readers to think about the realities of different disabilities. Today's topic is Asperger's syndrome. RantWoman knows little about the syndrome--even though RantWoman as a technology geek knows perhaps more people than average who are somewhere on the autism spectrum.

RantWoman further offers this commentary from someone RantWoman respects greatly on many counts:
http://cobaltmoon.blogspot.com/2012/10/understand-i-am-very-pro-neurodiversity.html
The commentary is about parents, fear of labelling, learning to cope....




This video is very visual with photos intercut with Powerpoint slides RantWoman did not even try to find video description for. The music is a country-western song. But the video is dead on about things that must be VERY hard.

Oops. RantWoman apologizes. She started this entry awhile ago and was having technical difficulties pasting in links. RantWoman decided to leave in the comment above but not to try again to figure out what link she had in mind. Use the search bar. Form your own conclusions.



Full disclosure: it never occurred to anyone in RantWoman's childhood to interact with some points RantWoman finds difficult in social interactions, either for reasons of vision issues or otherwise However, RantWoman has more than once stepped through some kind of home Asperger's self- assessment. RantWoman pretty consistently scores further toward the Asperger's end of whatever scale is involved than the mean for the general population. RantWoman ALWAYS gets nervous about acquiring  diagnoses via the internet, so MAYBE--or maybe not--RantWoman will sometime get around to more in-depth analysis. Maybe RantWoman is just a nerd.