Quote Originally Posted by G0MEZ
Quote Originally Posted by AdamGB
I put the rise in diagnostics in the Autism spectrum down to 'specialists' being only too happy to throw the name round and slap the label on to any body with the slightest personality quirk.
A friend of mine is a carer for an autistic kid.

He said that basically the word autism is applied to anyone slightly different - he was telling me how some of the people he's looked after over the years have had almost 'super powers' of sight & hearing.

Certain areas of their brain dont function normally, but others function on a higher level alltogether.

He said one kid had sight so good, he could actually see fine dust wafting around in the air and used to manipulate it for hours.

He thought he was just making it up, until he once said 'big bit of dust' - and my mate looked closely at the kids finger nail and a tiny tiny tiny spec of dust was visible to him.

He also said he could 'taste colours' - different coloured rooms made flavours appear in the kids mouth! apparently purple tasted 'of metal'
They said something like autism is a missing link inbetween us and aliens kinda. Aliens have bigger brains but much frailer bodies. The living conditions they're used to are very controlled ande pose very little risk of falling and stuff like that. Yeah but then again it was fox news radio and they can't even get the easy facts rights