Friday, May 08, 2009


Better late than never

I'm feeling rather ignorant and out of touch because I have only recently had a good look at an excellent web site about Asperger syndrome titled Inside perspectives of Asperger syndrome & the neuro-diversity spectrum. It is full of quotes from people who have AS from all over the world, and it also contains personal observations and good, sensible advice from the author, "a Swedish female diagnosed AS/HFA" named Inger Loreli. She also has synaesthesia. I will admit I have not read every word at this web site, but what I have read is very thoughtful and worthwhile. Good on you, Inger!

Inside perspectives of Asperger syndrome & the neuro-diversity spectrum

http://www.creative-minds.info/index.htm


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5 comments:

  1. Anonymous12:11 AM

    What is synaesthesia?
    -Meg

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  2. Lili Marlene12:29 AM

    Synaesthesia/synesthesia is a generally harmless neurological condition in which experiences in one sense trigger experiences in another sense (example - coloured hearing), or specific types of conceptual thinking trigger sensory experiences (examples - associating individual colours with individual letters of the alphabet, or always visualizing numbers in a specific and idiosyncratic spatial arrangement), or other events in the brain trigger sensory experiences (examples - flavoured emotions, performing specific movements triggering specific visualized landscapes). That's not all, there is another type of synaesthesia that quite complex and hard to fit into any of these categories. It is called Ordinal Linquistic Personification. There is an excellent Wikipedia article about it, and there are also excellent Wikipedia articles about Synesthesia in general and specific types.

    Back to the housework!

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  3. Lili Marlene12:30 AM

    CORRECTION - Ordinal Linguistic Personification.

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  4. Lili Marlene12:37 AM

    Oops, forgot to mention Mirror-Touch Synaesthesia. I'm not completely sure it really is a type of synaesthesia. It is considered to be within the category.

    There are certainly more types of synaesthesia than the experts have recognized in the literature yet. Some types directly involve memory, and I think these types should be of particular interest to researchers.

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  5. Anonymous10:30 PM

    Thanks!
    I can understand (a little), but I can learn about it. Again, Thanks :)!

    -Meg

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