User talk:Crashvirus

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WikiProject Cocktails

Hello. As a person interested in cocktails and/or the WikiProject Cocktails, you may be interested to know that a name change is being considered for the WikiProject from Cocktails to Mixed Drinks. Please add your opinions to the discussion and vote. Also, check out the recent changes to the WikiProject area. Consider becoming an active Participant. Thanks! --Willscrlt 08:58, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Autism

In answer to your question: One of the most important things an autist needs to learn to understand is that half the time, non-autists tell lies. Or atleast so they do in the opinion of an autist. Many, many things in neurotypical culture are based on saying one thing and meaning another. Things like euphemisms, sarcasm, puns, compliments, proverbs and fictional literature are all initially confusing to most autists, because we tend to, in our earlier years, take things literally. This is also why ABA doesn't work. When a severe autist taking the ABA programme is told that a red square on piece of paper in front of him is called a red square, he learns that that specific shape with that specific colour on that specific piece of paper is called a red square. He learns that he is praised if he calls it that and is 'punished' if he doesn't. Therefore rather than understand what it is, he simply learns that he gets praise for calling it something. He learns to identify certain object with certain names, he does not however learn to identify the characteristics of the object.

In no way does he now suddenly understand that when a neurotypical says "That's a really great plan" in sarcastic tone he really means "That's not a good plan at all", because the autist is not taught that changing a single characteristic (in this case the tone of voice) can change the entire meaning of something.

ABA teaches a kid a lot of seperate rules for seperate situations without adequately explaining the correlations and contexts to which they are related.

Rather than teaching an autistic kid that something is a square, they should teach it WHY it is a square. Robrecht (talk • contribs) 13:00, 11 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]