[clug] Bryan's behaviour
Bryan Kilgallin
kilgallin at iinet.net.au
Wed Jul 3 07:52:55 UTC 2019
Bob wrote:
> Going way off-topic, I have a friend who is diagnosed with Aspergers
> who used to live in NSW.
I have a friend with epilepsy. He had a seizure in a pub. Upon seeing
him lying on the floor twitching--the management decreed he must never
darken their door again!
> Certainly, doing a search on the ACT Health website for Aspergers
> turns up no hits (there are some for "autism").
The former term is outdated. Nowadays it's called Autism Spectrum
Disorder (ASD).
> Thanks for coming along and participating in CLUG meetings even if
> you are struggling with us socially. You manage it very well.
The Canberra Hospital ran a Psychological Medicine course for med
students. That employed mental health consumers as tutors. On the
grounds that we had lived experience. But its form demanded that we
assure them a term in advance, that we wouldn't be symptomatic!
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