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Autistic Spectrum Disorder The Health Report, ?
Bright autistic kids 'misunderstood', People with autism are more intelligent and able to function better than previously believed, experts say.
Michelangelo may have been autistic, Renaissance artistic genius Michelangelo may have had Asperger's syndrome, a milder form of autism that causes people to have difficulties with social interaction,
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Traditionally, people with autism were deemed to have low intelligence, significant learning disabilities, and a rigid insistence on sameness.
Yet many original thinkers and driving forces in our culture, including Isaac Newton, Lewis Carroll, Einstein,
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More recently, people have speculated about whether high achievers like Bill Gates and many of NASA's workforce have Asperger's syndrome.
So how is it that a disorder that includes problems with social interaction, communication and emotional interpretation result in such groundbreaking achievements?
^ to topFor years, autistic people with astonishing artistic, mathematical or technical ability but limited abilities in other areas were referred to as 'idiot savants', though the prefix has now been dropped.
Around 10 per cent of people with autism show remarkable skills where an early inclination (towards music, numbers or some other interest) is honed to an exceptional edge by years of dedication.
Nobel prize calibre geniuses often have certain core autistic features at their heart, says Professor Allan Snyder, director of Sydney University's Centre for the Mind.
These features include preoccupation with detail, obsessive interests and difficulties in understanding another person's perspective.
"The normal mind is good at recognising the gist of something,
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"We tend to see the world through the filter of what we know we see a whole, rather than the parts. This is a real bottleneck to creativity because we can't look at the world afresh."
By contrast, living with autism is like being in an unfamiliar country. "The autistic mind is literal and tends to see the parts rather than the whole, that is to see the elements without meaning, intuition or automatic judgement," he says.
People with autism spectrum disorders lack the ability to synthesise pieces of information because of an impairment in the process of concept formation. However, they do see the parts denied to normal conscious awareness. They then build up a logical pattern based on these parts.
Professor Snyder explains that when a person without ASD sees a radical new sports car model, even though it is quite different to the station wagon in the driveway, they intuitively recognise what they are seeing is a car. But someone with ASD sees the parts: wheels, doors, seats, windscreen, position of the engine etc and then has to mentally assemble those components to form what we know as a car."
"The [non autistic] mind can make unexpected connections between seemingly disparate systems and can invent entirely new systems based on those connections," Snyder continues, "rather than finding novelty within an existing system."
What is autism spectrum disorder?
ASD covers a huge panorama of issues from the relatively mild Asperger's syndrome to people with a severe disability.
Approximately 1 in 160 live births in Australia have ASD, which is four times more likely to affect boys than girls.
Severe autism is characterised by intellectual impairment and the inability to speak or communicate at all. At the other end of the spectrum, those with Asperger's syndrome have the normal range of intellectual capacity but their condition impairs their ability to socialise and communicate with others, both verbally and non verbally, and gives them an all absorbing interest in specific topics.
There may be a genetic basis for the condition, with generations of some families having a history of similar symptoms, or a specific chromosomal abnormality such as Fragile X syndrome. Research also indicates that exposure to pesticides during pregnancy may also be a factor.
For more information read ABC Health and Wellbeing's Autism Fact File.
^ to topThe fact that genius can fall within the autistic spectrum challenges our deepest notions of creativity. "Are there two different routes to creativity normal and autistic?" asks Snyder.
The unique way someone with Asperger's syndrome sees the world means that even though they may be able to perform a task with savant like abilities, such as play a complex piece of music after hearing it once, they are not necessarily creative.
5 Steps To Buying an Electric Guitar
There such a bewildering variety of guitars out there right now,
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Before you can think about nailing that intro to Child O you need to know what kind of guitar you looking for so that it the right fit for your hands, body and musical tastes.
If you can do some prep work before making your next or first guitar purchase, you be on your way to sounding like your favourite star in no time 1 What Kind of Music do You Like?
Before deciding on what kind of guitar to buy, you need to think about the style of music you want to play, as certain types of electric guitar are better for certain types of music.
Think about your favourite guitarists, the ones you want to emulate and then ask yourself,
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Some of these instruments are recreated in exact detail, but they can be a bit pricey for a first guitar purchase depending on your budget.
Here a quick guide to genres and their matching guitar types.
If you into modern or classic rock then you should look for a solid body guitar.
If you prefer country rhythms then go for something with single coil pickups.
For jazz, choose a semi hollow body electric with humbucker pickups.
Step 2 Buying an Electric Guitar Budget
Buying a guitar is like everything in life; you get what you pay for.
It makes sense to spend as much as you can afford when buying a new or first guitar, because think about the amount of hours you going spend with this instrument and the amount of money you spend on lessons.
It worth it to buy a good quality instrument, but you don need to break the bank to get a good guitar in your hands.
Decent electric guitars start around $300 and will be more than sufficient for a first purchase as you venture into the realm of playing guitar.
Step 3 Visit Your Local Guitar Store
Go to a shop and play some of the guitars that they have hanging on the walls in a variety of shapes, sizes and price ranges, just remember the Stairway Rule when you do.
If you can play yet, then get the salesperson to play some for you,
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Have a really good listen to the resonance of the guitar and the tone that it produces, because this reflects the quality of the wood used.
However the most expensive woods don necessarily produce the best sounds, what matters is whether you like the sound and feel of the instrument.
Once you decide on a guitar, make sure you have the store set it up for you so that it in playing shape right from the first minute you get it home and take it out of the case.
Improperly setup guitars are hard to play and cause many first time buyers to quit the instrument before they ever reach their full potential on the guitar.
Step 4 The Anatomy
When checking out a new guitar, have a good feel of the neck. The guitar neck has to be the right fit for your hands, because that will dictate how easily you can move from fret to fret.
Also, consider the type of pickups you want if you buy an electric guitar, as most guitars will have two of these, one close to the neck and one close to the bridge.
A switch allows you to choose between pickups or a blend of them and sometimes a third, or middle pickup, is also available on some guitars for more sound blending options.
Step 5 Go Your Own Way
Finally, and probably most importantly, choose an instrument that fits your personality.
There is so much choice out there in respect to colour, body style, graphic prints and more,
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