Originally Posted by 22B
Originally Posted by bluemagic
Fairly sure this thread has gone a bit off topic as I don't think it has much to do with autism, but I'm finding it interesting.
It's not far off topic. Children who show certain highly precocious early skills are often accused of having "splinter skills", are therefore placed under suspicion of being autistic, and may even be subjected to "treatment" including being deprived of intellectual stimulation (since it's obviously a bad influence) so that they can develop more normally.
Yikes that happens? I guess being gifted is fairly normal in my family and I don't know anyone who would consider depriving a kid of intellectual stimulation. Even if they were diagnosed with autism. But perhaps it's why I get so defensive when autism is closely tied to certain gifted traits. And the idea that we need to 'cure' autism is so offensive.