Barry Prizant
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328 appearances
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first heard Mar 2018
last heard Mar 2018
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And so the big idea of uniquely human, and it's right in the title, uniquely human, a different way of seeing autism, is understanding people who happen to have a label of autism as evolving human beings, who have their
Strengths have their passions.
after following um a term coined actually by a
a woman uh named Clara Claiborne Park, she used the term enthusiasms that my child did not have obsessions, my child had enthusiasms.
So really looking and it's not just kind of Pollyannish looking at the cup half full.
It's meaningful to have a different window and a different perspective into understanding the experience of autism.
So a couple of the more specific things that I really try to get to in the book.
is number one, autism is not a tragedy.
Um, for some reason people, you know, a parent will say I have an autistic child.
Oh my God, it must be such a terrible experience.
You must be such a patient parent.
And yet so many parents talk equally as much about the joys and how much they've learned and how they've lived life more deep.
Um the notion that when we see a person with autism, they have all these autistic behaviors.
jumping, flapping, rocking, echolalia, repeating speech, and all of that needs to be stripped away because our goal is to normalize the child.
And so that also is is I have a whole chapter on talking about language characteristics and how we have to put those misconceptions to rest, that there's no such thing as autistic behaviour.
We have to understand the reason or the purpose.
And when we understand the reason or the purpose, it's not so different from the way we behave and what we do as so called typical people.
Um, I also try to go right at the notion of high functioning versus low functioning autism because sometimes we cast in concrete our perceptions of a person which really limits possibilities for them and that there is no such thing.
No human being could be talk could be spoken about as high functioning or low functioning.
All of us are very good at some things and not so good at other
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