Re: I saw Jerry on 60 minutes

[Guest guest]

wrote:

>It's kinda cool having a face to go with the name.

I saw it, too (even though it interrupted my listening to the audio

version of " Something Rotten, " the third Thursday Next book by Jasper

Fford (in which there is a character who is a reconstituted

Neanderthal who, because it is a Neanderthal, has autistic

characteristics).

Except that it was a bit to syrupy for my taste, it (the 60 Minutes

piece) was pretty good, I thought. Not sure how much it would say

about autism to anyone unfamiliar with autism (I guess I forgot to

pay attention to that issue because it was more interesting to see

Jerry and and the animals), but it sure could have been a lot

worse. The basic (syrupy) orientation seemed very NT to me, but

that's because I'm not one of the autistics who is desperate to find

a life-partner. According to one NT view of autism, it is just so

fabulously wonderful when an autistic manages to get married. Almost

like the news stories you see about a one-legged person who is good

at downhill skiing. The attitude seems a bit condescending to me.

Perhaps I'm over-sensitive to suspected condescension, I don't know.

I thought Jerry and handled things well -- which can't have been easy.

Jane

[Guest guest]

wrote:

> It's kinda cool having a face to go with the name.

Yeah, I saw it and it was pretty good. It was worth

skipping the first half hour of the other show I wanted

to watch, on Nova, " Origins " . Way to go, Jerry!

Clay

[Guest guest]

Jane wrote:

> The basic (syrupy) orientation seemed very NT to me,

> but that's because I'm not one of the autistics who

> is desperate to find a life-partner. According to one

> NT view of autism, it is just so fabulously wonderful

> when an autistic manages to get married.

I'm not Desperate to find a life-partner, in fact I

rarely think of it, but I have to say, I Did feel

envious of Jerry for that. Just having a companion,

to share things with, good or bad, can be a wonderful

thing. To find a true partner, who can understand when

you want to be close and when you need to be alone, can

be a real treasure.

Clay

[Guest guest]

I was never desperate to find a partner either. We just sort of stumbled upon

each other. (Not literally)

--linda

Re: I saw Jerry on 60 minutes

Jane wrote:

> The basic (syrupy) orientation seemed very NT to me,

> but that's because I'm not one of the autistics who

> is desperate to find a life-partner. According to one

> NT view of autism, it is just so fabulously wonderful

> when an autistic manages to get married.

I'm not Desperate to find a life-partner, in fact I

rarely think of it, but I have to say, I Did feel

envious of Jerry for that. Just having a companion,

to share things with, good or bad, can be a wonderful

thing. To find a true partner, who can understand when

you want to be close and when you need to be alone, can

be a real treasure.

Clay

[Guest guest]

characteristics).

> Except that it was a bit to syrupy for my taste, it (the 60 Minutes

> piece) was pretty good, I thought.

The only other thing I saw about it was that Jerry and weren't

really given a chance to say a lot. I know that's somewhat the nature

of those shows, but for instance they showed a clip of someone asking

Jerry a question and then cut to something else before he could answer

it. (Making me suspect they left that clip in to show the birds or

something.)