Do schizophrenics in general think it's hell? That's what I'd be interested to know.
I know that autistic adults, to take a different example, generally do not see autism as hell (some do, sure), but they do see the approach of the cultural environment as hell.
The key symptoms of schizophrenia are hallucinations, delusions and disorganized speech. I really don't see how they modeled this in mice. I believe the MIT researchers are overstating their case.
Correlation studies can be easily confounded. The best way to tell is a randomized double-blind trial where people are exposed to active and inactive masts and their symptoms evaluated.
I believe the prevailing wage for programmers in Silicon Valley is considerably higher than $35,000. There are laws that regulate H1-B salaries you know.
This is the first buffer overflow vulnerability Java has ever been found to have, AFAIK. And they announce it with "threatens nearly everything." Don't the buffer overflow vulnerabilities announced frequently about IE and other programs also threaten nearly everything?
Even species from this same planet, who share most of our DNA due to common ancestry, look very different to us. What are the odds that species from a different planet would look humanoid? Zero, basically.
I was in the Galapagos when I was 16 or 17. I do not believe I've been in a trip more memorable than that. Every island is different. At times it's like being in a different planet.
That sounds like a good plan, and Ecuadorians in general do understand about the environmental impact of tourism and human activity, but those activities bring in some cash.
Good point. If you want to compare systems, Canada vs. the US is a fair comparison. If you want to compare Cuba with another country, try Mexico. And not surprisingly, Cuba has reputedly the best healthcare in Latin America.
It's stupid to try to compare systems between countries that have vast differences in resources per capita. Still, the US is only ranked slightly above Cuba in healthcare I understand.
Oh, I forgot to mention - my stepdaughter has an autistic boyfriend.
And to those interested in discussions around the idea of autism acceptance and/or neurodiversity, check out the collection of blogs at http://autism-hub.co.uk./ You will find most of the blogs there are science-oriented though.
The way people feel about autistics (be them their relatives or not) is culturally constructed. I'm convinced of this. I have a classically autistic son, BTW. To give an example, I was reading the other day one of those dismal descriptions of autism that abound, and it described how siblings of autistic children are devastated and so forth. Yet, my son has a typical sister. Do you think she's devastated? Not in the least. She's very loving with him, and treats him like any sister would treat any little brother, even better. She never complains about him or says he shouldn't be the way he is or any of that. They have a great relationship, even though he doesn't talk. Why is that? I'm pretty sure it's simply because she's been raised not to have these prejudices - as simple as that. She's been raised not to have any racial prejudices for that matter, and she in fact is comfortable getting along with any type of person.
A good paper I've read on the subject is "Autism: Common, heritable, but not harmful." by Gernsbacher et al. It doesn't look like the PDF is available publicly, but here's a quote from the article:
"Quite compellingly, each of these statistically significant demonstrations of autistic superiority is labeled by its authors as a harmful dysfunction. Autistics' superior block-design performance is labeled "weak central coherence," symptomatic of dysfunctional "information processing in autism" (Shah & Frith 1993, p. 1351). Autistics' superior performance on embedded figures tests is considered "consistent with the cognitive-deficit theory proposed by Hermelin and O'Connor (1970)... due to a central deficiency in information processing" (Shah & Frith 1983, p. 618). Autistics' superior recognition memory performance is attributed to deleteriously "enhanced attention to shallow aspects of perceived materials" (Toichi et al. 2002, p. 1424); their superior sentence comprehension is described as being "less proficient at semantically and syntactically integrating the words of a sentence" (Just et al. 2004, p. 1816); their superior imperviousness to memory distortions is explained by "representations in the semantic network [that] may be associated in an aberrant manner" (Beversdorf et al. 2000, p. 8736); and their superior resistance to misleading prior context is attributed to their perception being "less conceptual" (Ropar & Mitchell 2002, p. 652)."
BTW, "superiority" is a term that is used in cognitive science. Don't read too much into it. Autisitcs are not generally into describing themselves as superior.
That's a rather simplistic understanding of autism acceptance, and disability rights as a whole for that matter.
Diabetes needs to be constructed as a medical condition, because to do otherwise would mean that persons afflicted with the condition could die. Diabetes is treatable medically, and treatment can prolong life. The same does not apply to autism or to most so-called "mental diseases".
It's not clear that the medical model is the best model for autism. Certainly, the medical model has been a failure in the autism field so far (despite news like this that keep popping up every other week it seems). That's why some people push for a social model of disability instead. That probably includes most adults who identify themselves as autistic and even some children. Plus some parents.
I'm also a parent, BTW.
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Do schizophrenics in general think it's hell? That's what I'd be interested to know. I know that autistic adults, to take a different example, generally do not see autism as hell (some do, sure), but they do see the approach of the cultural environment as hell.
The key symptoms of schizophrenia are hallucinations, delusions and disorganized speech. I really don't see how they modeled this in mice. I believe the MIT researchers are overstating their case.
I tend to agree "buy it now" is non-obvious for an auction, unless you can show non-internet auctions ever had this feature.
Correlation studies can be easily confounded. The best way to tell is a randomized double-blind trial where people are exposed to active and inactive masts and their symptoms evaluated.
is called compete.com
No, I think it has to do with crashing down from about an altitude of 30,000 feet.
Btw, the odds of dying in your whole lifetime are 1.
Mongoloid is an offensive and outdated term. It was replaced by Down's syndrome. I'm being serious.
I believe the prevailing wage for programmers in Silicon Valley is considerably higher than $35,000. There are laws that regulate H1-B salaries you know.
threaten 'virtually everything'?
This is the first buffer overflow vulnerability Java has ever been found to have, AFAIK. And they announce it with "threatens nearly everything." Don't the buffer overflow vulnerabilities announced frequently about IE and other programs also threaten nearly everything?
Maybe the Windows successor is something like jNode, who knows :)
They should've, you know, Googled the term at least.
Even species from this same planet, who share most of our DNA due to common ancestry, look very different to us. What are the odds that species from a different planet would look humanoid? Zero, basically.
I was in the Galapagos when I was 16 or 17. I do not believe I've been in a trip more memorable than that. Every island is different. At times it's like being in a different planet.
That sounds like a good plan, and Ecuadorians in general do understand about the environmental impact of tourism and human activity, but those activities bring in some cash.
Good point. If you want to compare systems, Canada vs. the US is a fair comparison. If you want to compare Cuba with another country, try Mexico. And not surprisingly, Cuba has reputedly the best healthcare in Latin America. It's stupid to try to compare systems between countries that have vast differences in resources per capita. Still, the US is only ranked slightly above Cuba in healthcare I understand.
You're assuming most autistic adults want to be cured, which is not true.
And to those interested in discussions around the idea of autism acceptance and/or neurodiversity, check out the collection of blogs at http://autism-hub.co.uk./ You will find most of the blogs there are science-oriented though.
The way people feel about autistics (be them their relatives or not) is culturally constructed. I'm convinced of this. I have a classically autistic son, BTW. To give an example, I was reading the other day one of those dismal descriptions of autism that abound, and it described how siblings of autistic children are devastated and so forth. Yet, my son has a typical sister. Do you think she's devastated? Not in the least. She's very loving with him, and treats him like any sister would treat any little brother, even better. She never complains about him or says he shouldn't be the way he is or any of that. They have a great relationship, even though he doesn't talk. Why is that? I'm pretty sure it's simply because she's been raised not to have these prejudices - as simple as that. She's been raised not to have any racial prejudices for that matter, and she in fact is comfortable getting along with any type of person.
"Quite compellingly, each of these statistically significant demonstrations of autistic superiority is labeled by its authors as a harmful dysfunction. Autistics' superior block-design performance is labeled "weak central coherence," symptomatic of dysfunctional "information processing in autism" (Shah & Frith 1993, p. 1351). Autistics' superior performance on embedded figures tests is considered "consistent with the cognitive-deficit theory proposed by Hermelin and O'Connor (1970) ... due to a central deficiency in information processing" (Shah & Frith 1983, p. 618). Autistics' superior recognition memory performance is attributed to deleteriously "enhanced attention to shallow aspects of perceived materials" (Toichi et al. 2002, p. 1424); their superior sentence comprehension is described as being "less proficient at semantically and syntactically integrating the words of a sentence" (Just et al. 2004, p. 1816); their superior imperviousness to memory distortions is explained by "representations in the semantic network [that] may be associated in an aberrant manner" (Beversdorf et al. 2000, p. 8736); and their superior resistance to misleading prior context is attributed to their perception being "less conceptual" (Ropar & Mitchell 2002, p. 652)."
BTW, "superiority" is a term that is used in cognitive science. Don't read too much into it. Autisitcs are not generally into describing themselves as superior.
That's a rather simplistic understanding of autism acceptance, and disability rights as a whole for that matter. Diabetes needs to be constructed as a medical condition, because to do otherwise would mean that persons afflicted with the condition could die. Diabetes is treatable medically, and treatment can prolong life. The same does not apply to autism or to most so-called "mental diseases". It's not clear that the medical model is the best model for autism. Certainly, the medical model has been a failure in the autism field so far (despite news like this that keep popping up every other week it seems). That's why some people push for a social model of disability instead. That probably includes most adults who identify themselves as autistic and even some children. Plus some parents. I'm also a parent, BTW.