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wytchcroftSo i'm watching CSI - and i love CSI ok, but... (growls slightly) season 2; the episode titled Caged...
This is a story about an Autistic man (superbly performed by the actor) and it's written by one of the main writers for the show.
Interestingly, she says in commentary; this is very personal to me, my son is autistic...
even as every single one of her body language elements suggests that in fact the writer herself has autism.
But either way, it is very clear that the intention was to provide an educational as well as emotional story - Rain Man comparisons are dismissed early on for example as Grissom explains what Autism actually 'is'.
This is all very commendable...
except - we get lines such as 'He is an autistic man with high functioning right brain activity'', which is, y'know, um, from a neuroscience point of view - that is to say, uh, FACTUALLY, utter bollocks.
"Huh."
Wytch is irritated.
So my questions are - is my memory bad at measuring time? Only surely CSI 2 isn't that old and the neuroscience not so recent....? But that's the only possible excuse.
The meaty question being - are they still teaching this ‘superior right brain’ crap NOW across the USA? Else how come did the sincere, and no doubt well informed (or convinced they are anyway,) writer make such a neurologically laughable script? There are LOADS of real howlers, and this - if you have any personal connection to the subject or are a geek – is very bloody annoying.
This is a story about an Autistic man (superbly performed by the actor) and it's written by one of the main writers for the show.
Interestingly, she says in commentary; this is very personal to me, my son is autistic...
even as every single one of her body language elements suggests that in fact the writer herself has autism.
But either way, it is very clear that the intention was to provide an educational as well as emotional story - Rain Man comparisons are dismissed early on for example as Grissom explains what Autism actually 'is'.
This is all very commendable...
except - we get lines such as 'He is an autistic man with high functioning right brain activity'', which is, y'know, um, from a neuroscience point of view - that is to say, uh, FACTUALLY, utter bollocks.
"Huh."
Wytch is irritated.
So my questions are - is my memory bad at measuring time? Only surely CSI 2 isn't that old and the neuroscience not so recent....? But that's the only possible excuse.
The meaty question being - are they still teaching this ‘superior right brain’ crap NOW across the USA? Else how come did the sincere, and no doubt well informed (or convinced they are anyway,) writer make such a neurologically laughable script? There are LOADS of real howlers, and this - if you have any personal connection to the subject or are a geek – is very bloody annoying.
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Date: 2009-05-09 03:08 am (UTC)I have to say I know near to zero about autistium. What I've been lead to believe by the media is it technically makes you a lot smarter in some areas, yet unable to often function properly socially? hmmm. I'm careful not to just believe everything I'm told though (always keep an open mind). So is that stuff wrong or half wrong, right or um very wrong? lol
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Date: 2009-05-09 05:06 pm (UTC)And Grissim rocks. TieHie
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Date: 2009-05-09 07:23 pm (UTC)Didn't know that was a theory behind Autism.
Though, I would almost say that is a case with Aspies, (Aspergers), because my brother who has it certainly is a right brain thinker, (and maybe a lefty to...which might be more of the cause of why he's a right brain thinker, lol). But he is the creative sort, leaves even me behind sometimes.
Well, when he isn't hanging on my chair, moaning about how he's bored, and how I'm boring, and can't we do something FUN! (He's thirteen, LOL)
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