it was him

[mellowtigger]

I wasn't sure if it was me choosing to sit by him during the past 5 years or him choosing to sit by me. It's probably some of both, but at the support group meeting tonight it was D. who sat by me. He and I both got through the 2-hour evening without speaking a word, even our names.  I think it's a little fascinating that the autistic crowd is so easily classified in this way.  I'm honestly surprised that it's not somehow part of the DSM guidelines in diagnosis for the various kinds of autism.

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[otterlover01.livejournal.com]

In my now long years studying Nature I have come to learn that extreme diversity is the rule, that pattern is something we humans use to cope with that diversity. I have never found an object or a phenomenn that might not be in the end a part of a continuum. It is what is being found about homosexuality nowdays and what about the "Five Sexes", I suspect autism would follow a similar path. Luis.

[mellowtigger]

'Nature abhors a vacuum.' - Aristotle

Apparently it's also true in a more philosophical sense rather than just physical. In any axis of study or examination, nature does seem to find a way to fill it out in both directions.

That's part of my fascination with seahorses, since it's the males who conceive babies and give birth to them. Nature does try out some interesting experiments. :)

[denminn.livejournal.com]

Sorry I didn't make it tonight, had something else to go. How was it?

[mellowtigger]

I stayed in the big room with the set topic, so it was the usual festival of detours. :)

It was a little heavy on the "couples" references. It was unusual to have so many people there who were in relationships. I think it was about 1/3 of the group in that room. In my experience, that's a very high percentage for this population. It was also 1/3 female, and that's another high percentage.