Insights from living with Asperger’s Syndrome… and raising 15 Aspies!
By John Counsel QUESTION: Can anyone give me some personal advice, please? I’m doing my best to understand my 8 year old, undiagnosed Aspie son, so please don’t be judgemental. Is it natural for those with ASD to jump to negative assumptions about themselves first, before anything else? For example, last night I took him to …
BY JOHN COUNSEL Asperger’s Syndrome was named after the condition articulated in 1944 by Dr Hans Asperger, an Austrian psychiatrist. The name was coined in the 1980s by Dr Lorna Wing, an English psychiatrist and prolific author who specialised in Autism. Dr Wing was also the mother of an autistic child. Asperger’s Syndrome was first formally recognised as a neurologically divergent condition …
By John Counsel It can be very easy — even tempting — to draw the conclusion that there’s some kind of cause-and-effect relationship between vaccines and autism when they both APPEAR to occur around the same time in some children. But appearances can be very misleading… just like in these examples: In August-September 2016, in …
By JOHN COUNSEL There's an important clue in the name itself: Asperger's Syndrome… “a syndrome is a group of symptoms which consistently occur together, or a condition characterized by a set of associated symptoms.” There's a variation on the old saying “if you’ve met one ————— you've met them all,” that applies to everyone on the Autism Spectrum, …
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By John Counsel Sometimes a decision to be open and honest with your progeny can lead to some unexpected interpretations… especially by an imaginative, five-year-old, Aspie* grandson! This series of screen captures from the feedback site used by Eastern Health in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, tells the story most succinctly… enjoy! It all started in September …
By John Counsel I have experience of trying to teach a total of five Aspie offspring to drive. They learned to drive in unexpected chronological order. Some took excruciatingly longer learning times than others. Let me explain… Child #1, a girl, announced at age 15 that the day she turned 17 (the minimum age for …
By John Counsel The Bow and Arrow Principle is one of the highest forms of leverage you’ll ever use in your business. It says “if you want to hit your target with greater speed, power and accuracy, the first thing to do is… pull back!” This applies particularly to planning and preparation — the highest …
Blowfly Logic By John Counsel If you ever need a bunch of dead blowflies, the best place to find them is along window ledges, especially in summer. Nowhere else comes close as a place for blowflies to congregate and die. They perish there for several reasons. Persistence – nowhere on earth will you find greater …
The Hat Pin Perspective By John Counsel This is a wonderfully clarifying perspective when it comes to disciplining ourselves to invest the time and effort needed to apply the Bow and Arrow Principle in our businesses and in our lives! In 1980 I was Marketing and Advertising Manager for a large automotive group in Melbourne, …
My Aspie World 