Comments on: Please Be Kind To People’s Daily, Who Is An Autistic Child http://beijingcream.com/2014/04/peoples-daily-is-an-autistic-child/ A Dollop of China Tue, 22 Jan 2019 17:42:34 +0000 hourly 1 By: Garbo http://beijingcream.com/2014/04/peoples-daily-is-an-autistic-child/#comment-269944 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 22:08:30 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=24310#comment-269944 I feel my brain cells dying if I ventured on the China Daily website.

]]> By: Oro Invictus http://beijingcream.com/2014/04/peoples-daily-is-an-autistic-child/#comment-269765 Tue, 29 Apr 2014 19:54:16 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=24310#comment-269765 Ah, mangled part of the sentence, the “than it” of the fourth line should be “which”. Apologies for any confusion.

]]> By: Oro Invictus http://beijingcream.com/2014/04/peoples-daily-is-an-autistic-child/#comment-269764 Tue, 29 Apr 2014 19:52:12 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=24310#comment-269764 Not to be a “stick in the mud”, because I have no problem with comparisons like these, it’s simply that the characterization of autism is incorrect; autism is more akin to a disorder borne of unusual modes of information acquisition and schema formation than it is incompatible with the current societal models of imprinting than any sort of inability to grasp matters abstract.

A better comparison would have been the Ian Agnew character from that one episode of Monk (sorry, I could not find a video, but the script should suffice): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0650623/quotes

]]> By: name http://beijingcream.com/2014/04/peoples-daily-is-an-autistic-child/#comment-269694 Tue, 29 Apr 2014 05:58:09 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=24310#comment-269694 “We should meet them halfway.”

No.

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