Tag: autism

• Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

  When I was young and growing up in a 1950ies Winnipeg school, it didn’t occur to me to categorize the unusual people I encountered there. There were those who seemed to behave themselves in class, and those who didn’t. I suppose there were variations among the disruptors: some -those who usually sat at the back…

  gozzter

  November 12, 2025

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  autism, eccentricities, mental health, neurodiversity, variations

• The Feast of Difference

  I don’t read many children’s books anymore -my own children have long since had children of their own- but every so often I am reminded of how important books can be for them. Whatever you may think of political correctness and its enthusiastic exhortations for sensitivity, or its celebration of differences, there are times when…

  gozzter

  August 22, 2018

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  airports, autism, book pictures, books, bookstores, characters in books, children, children’s books, difference, drawings, The Conversation

• Autism and Obstetrics

  I’m an obstetrician caring for worried mothers. They’re worried about things that might put their developing foetuses at risk for a whole range of issues and ask me for advice. Obviously I’m neither a paediatrician nor a child psychologist, so questions about autism leave me alone in troubled waters. There are so many rumours of…

  gozzter

  February 11, 2015

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  ASD, autism, Autism Spectrum Disorder, criteria boundaries, DSM-5 criteria, Julius Caesar, neurodevelopmental disorder, pollution, sensitivity, serpent’s egg, Shakespeare, social communication, specificity