Oh but often they can. Sometimes its through music, artwork, craftsmanship in one field or another, but its rarely in language.
They can see a problem, think a solution through, and then carry it out. Yet if you ask them to tell you how they came up with the idea, they struggle with how to tell you. The solution is very inventive. But much like a someone that stutters, the barrier is in communication not cognitive ability.
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Subject: RE: 2010 Book
From: David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, August 06, 2010 4:28 pm
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
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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.
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