Our favorite quote of the weekend at the 2008 Help Group Summit on Autism gave rise to a final frenzy of notebook doodlin', with assistance from my wife Elsa.
"If you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism."
- Stephen Stone
After all, aren't we ALL somewhere on the strange, colorful, bizarre, kaleidoscopic spectrum of human behavior?
Next: one of the weirder people, and more interesting artists, who ever lived! Was he autistic? The term was not even coined when he was alive, but perhaps?
william
p.s. Sony Pictures Classics has put up the new website for Charlie Kaufman's "Synecdoche, New York here. Lots of cool photos and links and a chance to hear a taste of composer Jon Brion's amazing musical score! Check it out.
Brilliant conclusion in words and drawing for a very informative and personal week of posts. That quote is wonderful and so very true. It is similar to something I always tell people when we are discussing mental health. A week doesn't go by where I wouldn't like to through the DSM book of classification of mental illness out the window of my office. We would all find ourselves somewhere in that book and most of us would fit under multiple categories. I mean do any of us not know a teenager who wouldn't fit under the diagnosis of " teenage adjustment disorder" . Labeling can have very negative consequences. I wonder if they touched on that at your conference. I will checkout the movie site later today, and I can't wait till it comes to a theatre near me. Have a wonderful weekend with your family.
Posted by: Margaret Oomen | October 03, 2008 at 05:58 AM