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Too many young writers (almost all male) fill their stories with empty violence—bullets and gobbets of flesh flying in all directions—as a substitute for meaningful action.
Creating Short Fiction
Damon Knight
We fool ourselves into thinking that autism is a “puzzle” that will be solved by the next medical breakthrough.
Autistic People Are Not Failed Versions of “Normal.” |
ideas.ted.com
he child with autism is at heart “normal”, but their autism has them trapped, blocked-off from the world. Bruno Bettelheim, a leading champion of the refrigerator mother theory, called his major book <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Empty-Fortress-Infantile-Autism-Birth/dp/0029031400"><span style="font-style:italic;">The Empty Fortress</span></a>. Either professionals, or parents, need to “break through” the autism to contact the “real” child imprisoned by the disorder. Likewise, this real child is eager to get out, but this is very difficult: they are crying out for help. In the 60s, it was psychoanalysis that could free the child. Today, it’s anything from <a href="http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.com/2009/06/citalopram-doesnt-wor.html">Prozac</a> to <a href="http://neurodiversity.com/weblog/article/14/">chelation</a> and other <a href="http://www.autism-watch.org/about/bio2.shtml">quack “biomedical” cures</a>.
Autistic Children in the Media - Neuroskeptic
blogs.discovermagazine.com
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