Guest guest Posted August 18, 2004 Report Share Posted August 18, 2004 > I just heard a news story that a " partially autistic " girl is > missing here in Tucson. > What is a " partially autistic " person? The immediate thing that came to mind was some kind of hideous brain-splicing experiment in which two people's brains were taken apart and pieces were fit back together with the two people jumbled together. One person being autistic and one not. Thus the new brain being " partially autistic " . But I suspect they mean she can talk or make eye contact or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 18, 2004 Report Share Posted August 18, 2004 wrote: > I just heard a news story that a " partially > autistic " girl is missing here in Tucson. > What is a " partially autistic " person? Someone with a bad diagnosis, maybe, but more likely, someone whose parents are in denial, so they would describe her that way. Clay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 18, 2004 Report Share Posted August 18, 2004 wrote: >> I just heard a news story that a " partially >> autistic " girl is missing here in Tucson. >> What is a " partially autistic " person? and Clay responded: >Someone with a bad diagnosis, maybe, but more >likely, someone whose parents are in denial, >so they would describe her that way. Reading that caused me to have an icky image of the parents arranging to have the " autistic part " surgically removed. And that reminded me of something I read in " The New Yorker " today (the July 26 issue). Seems that the medical industry has persuaded the military that cosmetic surgery should be available to all military personnel. For free (i.e., paid for by tax- payers). There is no limit to the number of surgeries a person in the military can have. One woman in the Navy had a series of surgeries: " The doctors told her the work she had done would have cost her nearly a hundred thousand dollars " if tax- payers hadn't been stuck with the bill instead. " According to the Army, between 2000 and 2003 its doctors performed four hundred and ninety-six breast enlargements and a thousand three hundred and sixty-one liposuction surgeries on soldiers and their dependents. In the first three months of 2004, it performed sixty breast enhancements and two hundred and thirty-one lipsuctions. " Weird. Jane Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 19, 2004 Report Share Posted August 19, 2004 --- In AutisticSpectrumTreeHouse , Jane Meyerding <<<Reading that caused me to have an icky image of the parents arranging to have the " autistic part " surgically removed. Jane>>> I've read ( http://www.ds-health.com/psurg.htm ) that some parents of children with Down syndrome subject their kids to plastic surgeries " to improve social acceptance of people with Down syndrome " ...How's that for weird? -Lana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 19, 2004 Report Share Posted August 19, 2004 <<<I just heard a news story that a " partially autistic " girl is missing here in Tucson. What is a " partially autistic " person? >>> Good question. Being " partially autistic " sounds similar to being " partially pregnant " ... Um, *what* part of her is autistic? Her upper part or lower? Her left side or right? Just curious. -Lana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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