Sharing: Wrong Model, Wrong Research

This is an incredibly insightful post that I think is absolutely spot-on.  While I’m a self-confessed research addict, I do find it disturbing that researchers continue to approach the Asperger’s/autism spectrum from an exclusively pathological point of view, based on their own historically egocentric observations, without so much as asking us for any part of our perspective at any time.  Thus, much of the research remains stubbornly aimed at finding causes, correlations, and cures.  The first two do little to nothing to improve the lives of anyone already in existence, and the third would only be useful to a small subset of the spectrum community.  NONE do anything to actually increase the enlightenment or understanding between the two neurotypes, especially of the neurotypical community, of the spectrum community (i.e., no advances have been made by the scientific community to solve the issue of Asperger’s/autistic people being continually misunderstood by the majority of the neurotypical population).  This is such a slamming-awesome post 🙂 ❤

(I’ll add header images and tags and stuff a little later, after work) 🙂