On Fri, August 6, 2010 14:27, mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Words have nothing to do with thought or the ability to think. They are > just a means of expression of those thoughts. The autistic can be > brilliant, but can have great difficulty in expressing it. Their thoughts > are no less valid. They can act on those thoughts and come up with > wonderful work in many different fields. Ask them to speak or write, and > they often have great difficulty. If they can't speak or write, they can't communicate those thoughts. They may indeed by brilliant, or "valid" (whatever that means when applied to a thought); but they are unavailable to anybody else. And we can have no meaningful opinion as to their brilliance or otherwise. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@xxxxxxxx; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info
