How to spot autistic adults
David Kirby's recent Huffpost with the truthful title: "There is no autism epidemic"
It's really hard to tell how wry or sarcastic Kirby is being when he says he now realizes that there has been no autism epidemic. He's not very amusing any way you look at it, and he has a track record of scrimping on fact checking. His book says that Asperger's syndrome is what used to be called, "idiot savantism." It's hard to explain how incredibly far from the truth that is. It's almost like a deliberately crafted error, it's so, so wrong.
In his sort of ill-tempered little blog rant on Huffpo, Kirby describes autistic adults who criticize his writing and publicity-producing activities saying that they "villify" him. He says he's pretty sure they mostly have Asperger's syndrome, not "real" autism. But then, he says that Asperger's people are what used to be called "idiot savants"... which by definition would make them "low functioning autistics." Hmmm.
How would he know what diagnoses his critics have? It's not like he'd ever ask them. He seems to avoid discussions with adult autistics (or adult Asperger's folks, or even "idiots savant") like the plague.
In his "no epidemic" blog essay he very narrowly categorizes the bunch of autistic adults that criticize him. He describes them as being basically just quirky and mean:
It's really hard to tell how wry or sarcastic Kirby is being when he says he now realizes that there has been no autism epidemic. He's not very amusing any way you look at it, and he has a track record of scrimping on fact checking. His book says that Asperger's syndrome is what used to be called, "idiot savantism." It's hard to explain how incredibly far from the truth that is. It's almost like a deliberately crafted error, it's so, so wrong.
In his sort of ill-tempered little blog rant on Huffpo, Kirby describes autistic adults who criticize his writing and publicity-producing activities saying that they "villify" him. He says he's pretty sure they mostly have Asperger's syndrome, not "real" autism. But then, he says that Asperger's people are what used to be called "idiot savants"... which by definition would make them "low functioning autistics." Hmmm.
How would he know what diagnoses his critics have? It's not like he'd ever ask them. He seems to avoid discussions with adult autistics (or adult Asperger's folks, or even "idiots savant") like the plague.
In his "no epidemic" blog essay he very narrowly categorizes the bunch of autistic adults that criticize him. He describes them as being basically just quirky and mean:
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