On 29 Dec 2005 21:57:20 -0800, "Michael" <michael.lu...@daterra.ab.ca> wrote
>i'm not sure about asperger, but are you the John Keller of the Aryan >Peoples' Press. you used to sign your writing like that.
Next year is International Asperger Year to mark the 100th anniversary of his birth. So we can expect all sorts of weirdoes to try and muscle in on the event. But, as I wrote in my book,
'Kanner was the first to publish a paper describing Autism in 1943. Asperger's paper from 1944 was largely ignored as he published in German from within the Third Reich. But he was no nazi. Today we may detect a tendency in his writing to paint too positive a picture of potential outcomes for people with Autism. He used the phrase "autistic intelligence" approvingly as an explanation for genius. Frith (1989) suggests that this "must be seen in the light of his fervent belief in the powers of education." It should also be seen in the light of his desire to save his patients from the gas chambers that awaited all deemed defective by the nazi state.' (Stanton 2000 p24)
References Uta Frith (ed.): Autism and Asperger Syndrome (Cambridge University Press, 1991) Mike Stanton: Learning to Live with High Functioning Autism; A Parent's Guide for Professionals. (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2000) -- mike stanton serving neither god nor mammon on the lonely planet. http://mikestantonsautism.blogspot.com
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