Comment by Denver NeVaar on January 21, 2013 at 1:53am

I like to think that if I knew the sensitivities, capacities, and preferences of the particular neurological wiring that is my own, I would be able to select more effective strategies and make more genuinely empowering life-enhancing decisions.  The label is therefore not intended to be a box or a category into which I try to fit, but rather a point of reference on a huge graph that has no edges.  "Here" could thus be found wherever, however, and as whatever any human mind could allow.    

Comment by brenda on January 25, 2013 at 8:53am

I like your reason for wanting to know, it articulates some of how I also feel, that a diagnosis could be empowering.

Cheers!

Brenda

Comment by Denver NeVaar on January 25, 2013 at 9:49am

As I suggested within a different post within this website, "if Autism assessments can be grouped with aptitude and skills-inventory tests instead of being perceived as a diagnosis of mental aberration," the focus could shift to self-empowerment and social collaboration instead of being viewed only as a problem to be fixed.  Perhaps it would even be recommendable for such assessments and testing to be done early, regularly, and frequently throughout life, so that both the individual and the surrounding community would have the information necessary to create both the best possible life experience and the greatest realization of every unique individual's potential.  All too often most of us seem to be stumbling through life like we're "flying blind" with only our best guesses to guide us, because we don't have access to the information necessary to know ourselves and our individual capabilities as well as we could.  By not individually being and doing our best, the additional effect is that the community is impoverished as well.  Try to imagine, for example, what the Renaissance period of history would have been like without Leonardo da Vinci.  We all have a contribution we could make, such that our absence creates a debilitating h*** within the spectrum of possibility.  

Comment by brenda on January 25, 2013 at 9:28pm

Thank you, Denver, this was good to read!

Comment by Denver NeVaar on January 25, 2013 at 10:51pm

Does anyone know why the computer server inserts asterisks instead of letters in somewhat random places?  The missing words within the previous post are "assessments," "assessments," and "h***."  Hopefully the meaning was nevertheless clear.

Comment by Denver NeVaar on January 26, 2013 at 12:47am

one more time:  a s s e s s m e n t s     and     h o l e

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