Talk:Societal and cultural aspects of autism

message: I just now added to Sociological and cultural aspects of autism #Further reading a reference to an article by Bazelon in today's New York Times. Perhaps someone who has the time can use it to generate a good discussion of the issue. The article has some technical howlers: its numeric estimate confuses classic autism with ASD, it uses a definition of "classic autism" that disagrees with most of the technical literature, and it perpetuates a misconception that autistic boys prefer to be alone. For some discussion of this, see Talk:Autism and Talk:Asperger syndrome. Still, the gender issues raised are important and deserve better coverage somewhere in Wikipedia. Eubulides 18:23, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I still feel that the main topic article(s) should have at least a mention that the disorder(s) manifests differently in females.  The mention could be paired with a link to these pages for a fuller discussion.  Kiwi 05:32, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Autism already mentions several of the male-female issues covered in Bazelon's article. It does this in its lead, in Autism #Neuropsychology, and in Autism #Epidemiology. Autism follows WP:MEDMOS and sticks to the consensus expert medical opinion, so it doesn't mention the issues in Bazelon's article that haven't been the subject of peer-reviewed work (preferably, work that has been summarized in a medical review article as well). These issues deserve better coverage in Wikipedia, but a medical article like Autism is not a good place for them. Ideally, a Wikipedia section on this topic would refer to many works and not just Bazelon's article alone, and if there's enough material there the topic would deserve a Wikipedia article of its own. Eubulides 18:13, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

text: I'm sorry I missed this removal when it happened; this article is a reliable source for certain points to be explored in this article.  I added it back to the list of sources (below) for expanding this article.  SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:29, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bazelon's NYT piece 

message: I work with males with Aspergers on improving their interpersonal relationships with women, and in the course of my work I have come to realize that there is a heartless and vicious attack on young and maculine males pretty much right across the spectrum. So I found it nausiating that it would have to appear here, in the Gender section. Here, females are, predictably, given more sympathy, and considering that the first statement is correct - the great majority of AS sufferers are male -I found that misandric tangent rather disappointing. Girls and women, at least in my experience, are the most problematic of all things in an AS males life, and I have known of cases where, due to "involuntary celibacy", AS males have committed suicide, which would certainly warrent the attention of that section. More than, for example, that girls have trouble being included in groups outside of their family - which obviously applies to most if not all AS sufferers, both male and female. Males with this condition need our compassion, and not, as so many are, to be overlooked. Its just a shame that militant feminists always insist on shitting in the swimming pool.
90.185.74.206 (talk) 22:33, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Gender

message: Re: * The New York Times article, [What autistic girls are made of] August 5, 2007.
I include below a few explicit factual excerpts and the names of studies and research centers that would help people find other sources for the eventual relevant subtopic.  THIS is what this NYTImes article is important for - that someone wrote on this splinter topic and went through so many interviews with autism/asperger research experts to do so..... 
:*"According to The Centers for Disease Control, there are about 560,000 people under the age of 21 with autism in the United States. (Adults aren’t included because there is no good data on their numbers.) If 1 in 4 are female, the girls number about 140,000. The C.D.C. estimates that about 42 percent of them are of normal intelligence, putting their total at roughly 58,000 (with the caveat that these numbers are, at best, estimates).
::Because there are so many fewer females with autism, they are “research orphans,” as Ami Klin, a psychology and psychiatry professor who directs Yale’s autism program, puts it. Scientists have tended to cull girls from studies because it is difficult to find sufficiently large numbers of them. Some of the drugs, for example, commonly used to treat symptoms of autism like anxiety and hyperactivity have rarely been tested on autistic girls. 
::The scant data make it impossible to draw firm conclusions about why their numbers are small and how autistic girls and boys with normal intelligence may differ. But a few researchers are trying to establish whether and how the disorder may vary by sex. This research and the observations of some clinicians who work with autistic girls suggest that because of biology and experience, and the interaction between the two, autism may express itself differently in girls. And that may have implications for their well-being. 
::The typical image of the autistic child is a boy who is lost in his own world and indifferent to other people. It is hard to generalize about autistic kids, boys or girls, but some clinicians who work with high-functioning autistic children say they often see girls who care a great deal about what their peers think. These girls want to connect with people outside their families, says Janet Lainhart, a professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at the University of Utah." But often they can’t. Lainhart says that this thwarted desire may trigger severe anxiety and depression."
:*"This gender dynamic doesn’t necessarily affect girls with Asperger’s when they are very young; if anything, they often fare better than boys at an early age because they tend to be less disruptive. In 1993, Catherine Lord, a veteran autism researcher, published a study of 21 boys and 21 girls. She found that when the children were between the ages of 3 and 5, parents more frequently described the girls as imitating typical kids and seeking out social contacts. Yet by age 10, none of the girls had reciprocal friendships while some of the boys did. “The girls often have the potential to really develop relationships,’ says Lord, a psychology and psychiatry professor and director of the Autism and Communication Disorders Center at the University of Michigan. “But by middle school, a subset of them is literally dumbstruck by anxiety. (snip) Their behavior really doesn’t jibe with what’s expected of girls. And that makes their lives very hard.”"
:*"At the University of Texas Medical School, Katherine Loveland, a psychiatry professor, recently compared 700 autistic boys and 300 autistic girls and found that while the boys’ “abnormal communications” decreased as I.Q. scores rose, the girls’ did not. “Girls will have more trouble with social networks if they’re having greater difficulty with communication and language,” she says."
:*"In a new study published in May, a group of German researchers compared 23 high-functioning autistic girls with 23 high-functioning boys between the ages of 5 and 20, matching them for age, I.Q. and autism diagnosis. Parents reported more problems for girls involving peer relations, maturity, social independence and attention."
:*"The difficulty may continue into adulthood. While some men with Asperger’s marry and have families, women almost never do, psychiatrists observe. A 2004 study by two prominent British researchers, Michael Rutter and Patricia Howlin, followed 68 high-functioning autistics over more than two decades. The group included only seven women, too small a sample to reach solid conclusions about gender differences, Rutter and Howlin caution. But 15 men — 22 percent of the sample — rated “good” or “very good” for educational attainment, employment, relationships and independent living, while no women did. Two women rated “fair,” compared with 11 men, and the other five women were counted as “poor” or “very poor.”"
:*"Lainhart has been interested in the relationship between autism and depression. In a 1994 paper, Lainhart and John Hopkins researcher Susan Folstein pointed out that despite the 4-to-1 male-female ratio for autism, females made up half the autistic patients with mood disorders described in the medical literature." 
:*"David Skuse, a psychiatry professor at the Institute of Child Health at University College London, has analyzed data from 1,000 children, 700 of them on the autistic spectrum. “Girls with autism are rarely fascinated with numbers and rarely have stores of arcane knowledge, and this is reflected in the interests of females in the general population,” Skuse explains. “The girls are strikingly different from the boys in this respect.”"
Above are NAMES, INSTITUTIONS, and DATES OF RELEVANT RESEARCH so interested parties can find "the original peer-reviewed literature."  This is a MAP for those who wish to develop the subtopic. I will soon include more specifics below collected and posted elsewhere by another editor. Kiwi 07:48, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: The unique manifestations of high-functioning autism/Asperger's in girls

message: True, it may all be on the talk page this afternoon, but perhaps by tomorrow, there will be a stup sub-topic on the actual article page to link to.  Kiwi 00:11, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Have linked Austism and Asperger Syndrome under "see also" to this topic 

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replies: text: I worked in everything I could from these five articles; I haven't been through all of the sources listed above yet.  SandyGeorgia (Talk) 02:12, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Underutilized reliable sources

message: The following text from autistic culture was not merged; some of it is uncited essay, and some is text that I've not encountered in any of the sources.  If the text can be rewritten to neutral, encyclopedic, reliably sourced entries, perhaps it can be worked in here:
*Referring to The Geek Syndrome
**This article, many professionals assert, is just one example of the media's application of mental disease labels to what is actually variant normal behavior—they argue that shyness, lack of athletic ability or social skills, and intellectual interests, even when they seem unusual to others, are not in themselves signs of autism or Asperger's syndrome. Others assert that children who in the past would have simply been accepted as a little different or even labeled 'gifted' are now being labeled with mental disease diagnoses. See clinomorphism for further discussion of this issue.
*Some autistics who have actually held down a technical position report that, though they are often shunned (or manipulated/misdirected and unfairly criticised) by ambitious types, they are generally well liked by their colleagues, who appreciate their candour, technical ability, and general willingness to help others. They also report that they are frequently held to be disruptive or not "team players" (in the sense of being cooperative), which can feel like a foreign concept to many autistics. In addition, many autists tend to think of competition as against self or against challenges (seeking to excel) rather than against others.
* Aside from typing and speech, some functionally non-verbal (and some verbal) autistic people communicate through music and arts. Some also use gestural signing (a form of 'home signs' often used by the deaf), Makaton (a system of basic key word signing) and PECS (Picture Exchange Communication System).  Some autistic people who use typing require physical assistance in doing so for many different reasons.  This assisted typing is often referred to as Facilitated Communication and has enabled some autistic people to progress to independent typing and, in some cases, verbal speech. 
Autistic people are as diverse in their interests as any other group.  Whilst stereotypes of autistic culture emphasise appreciation of mathematics, science, science fiction, music, and computers, as common areas of interest in the autistic culture, there are rising interest groups surrounding writing, visual arts, film, psychology, fishing, philosophy and more stereotypically autistic interests such as bird watching and trainspotting. Within autistic culture there is also a popular focus on anthropology, based on the common autistic experience of living among beings (non-autistic humans) that have radically unfamiliar thought patterns and a correspondingly strange culture. Some autistic people describe a feeling that they are aliens or that they understand what an alien must feel like.
Akin to the split in deaf culture between those using speech, lip reading, hearing aids and cochlear implants and those preferring to use only deaf sign language and mix in predominantly only deaf social circles, a similar split has occurred within broader autistic culture, with particular authors and their works being vetoed by those who feel their works fail to adequately demonstrate a consistently celebratory or proud stance in regard to their autism and highlight those which do so more clearly and consistently. 
SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:23, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: From [[autistic culture]]

message: The following text from autistic community was not merged; some of it is uncited essay, some of it is now better accounted for here with sourced text, and some is text that I've not encountered in any of the sources.  If the text can be rewritten to neutral, encyclopedic, reliably sourced entries, perhaps it can be worked in here:
* Autism-related groups are divided into two broad and slightly fuzzy categories.  The categorisation can usually be made accurately based on whether a group describes itself as part of the "autistic community" or part of the "autism community".  The two should not be confused, because there are major differences and some friction between them.  
* People who identify themselves as members of the "autistic community" are generally autistic adults (sometimes adolescents) and tend to focus their concern on autistic adults.  They usually resist the idea of a cure for or prevention of autism and promote the beliefs that autistic children should be educated and brought up to be healthy autistic adults and that society should be more accepting and tolerant of autistic people.
* "Autistic community" groups promote the idea of autism as an inherent part of an autistic person's personality, and often reject the person-first terminology "person with autism" in favour of "autistic person". They generally perceive Asperger syndrome and classic autism more as part of a continuous spectrum than as distinct conditions.
* Groups referring to themselves as the "autism community" often consist of non-autistic parents of autistic children, and non-autistic professionals who work with autistic children. Such communities tend to focus on autistic children to the exclusion of adults, and seek a cure for and prevention of autism.  They express a desire for autistic children to be brought up to be, or at least appear to be, non-autistic.
* They tend to perceive autism as a disease distinct from the person with it, often using the person-first terminology "person with autism" rather than "autistic person".  In addition, they tend to perceive a strong distinction between Asperger syndrome and classic autism.  They may also tend to perceive autistic people as unable to communicate on their own behalf, and so might claim to speak for autistic people.  Critics claim they create a catch-22 that prevents autistic people from challenging the community's authority.* Some autistics who communicate have expressed their belief that it is particularly unjust for autism societies to be run by non-autistics, even excluding autistics from decisions that directly affect them.  There does not appear to be so much of a reaction to the exclusion that occurs in the opposite direction, of non-autistic people from autistic-run fora.
* Autism-related societies generally gravitate towards one of these two extremes, though there are some that are distinctly intermediate. As with many other controversial issues, there is a good deal of grey area that does not receive as much attention.  For example, there are some autistic adults who agree with the "autism community" on many issues but would not resist the idea of a cure for autism.
SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:37, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: From [[autistic community]]

message: Anyone can sign up to write for about.com; it is not a reliable source. These entries look like an attempt to bash and negatively characterize Autism Speaks; that should be done with reliable sources. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 02:11, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: About.com

message: This article made the following claims:
*"In a similar fashion to school bullying, the person with AS is vulnerable to problems in their neighbourhood, such as anti-social behaviour and harassment. Due to social isolation, they can be seen as the "black sheep" in the community and thus may be at risk of wrongful suspicions and allegations from others."
*"Such persons may also be more vulnerable to poverty and homelessness than the general population, because of their difficulty finding (and keeping) employment, lack of proper education, premature social skills, and other factors. It is even believed that 1 in 15 homeless people in the United States and 1 in 20 in the United Kingdom may have Asperger's."
and cited the following source:
:Barnard J, et al. Ignored or Ineligible? : The reality for adults with ASD (PDF). The National Autistic Society, London, 2001.
I just now looked at that source, and didn't find any evidence to support the claims. For now I have removed the claims and the source. I did leave behind this claim:
*"Although adults with AS may have similar problems, they are not as likely to be given treatment as a child would. Adult individuals diagnosed with AS may find it difficult finding employment or entering undergraduate or graduate schools because of poor interview skills or a low score on standardized or personality tests."
as it appears to be more solid, but it still needs a source, so I put a fact tag on it. Eubulides (talk) 06:59, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: A long-standing issue that may necessitate a checkuser. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:42, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Claims not supported by NAS source 

message: I don't know if this is worthy of Wikipedia (finding sources would be a bit hard), but one trend I've noticed on a lot of internet forums and other such communities is that people will self-diagnose themselves as having Asperger syndrome without knowing what it really means and use it as an excuse for their lack of social ability.  Dyslexia and ADHD are also getting the same treatment.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.146.137.200 (talk) 17:27, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the suggestion. I found one source on the subject and made this change to add a discussion of this and related topics. Further comment and suggestions are welcome. Eubulides (talk) 20:23, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Not many people understand why a person would choose to self-diagnose with ASD, so I put a brief explanation in to describe the thought processes leading to that type of Munchausen syndrome. Unfortunately, people keep reverting my changes. It's interesting that noone here is willing to admit the existence of a very real concern amongst autistic communities. Dragonnas (talk) 20:26, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: WP requires all material is reliably sourced to quality published material. Your own impression of why people behave a certain way might well be correct, but if you can't supply a source to back it up, it doesn't belong here. Colin°Talk 20:36, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I found three sources for different examples of this behaviour. More sources forthcoming. Dragonnas (talk) 20:43, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Please read WP:V, WP:RS, WP:OR and WP:SPS; I see his has come up before on your talk page.  Please base your edits on reliable sources, not blogs and self-published forums.  SandyGeorgia (Talk) 20:47, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

text: I agree with Colin and SandyGeorgia. One other thing: when I looked for reliable sources about self-diagnosis and ASD, the best I found was Mitchell (the currently-listed source), but it wasn't that good (it was in a non-Pubmed ejournal). Better sources are needed before we say too much more on this subject. Eubulides (talk) 00:53, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Self-diagnosed Asperger syndrome 

message: Could we avoid the use of this neologism.  As far as I can tell it's only used within the autistic community.  Wikipedia isn't a soapbox, nor is it an autism support group.  If you want to mount a campaign to change the English language to placate yourselves, do it somewhere else.  24.216.189.240 (talk) 22:16, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I see you raised the same point on Talk:Autism/Archive 9 #Neurotypical; please see my response there. Eubulides (talk) 23:09, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I second the motion of keeping meaningless jargon out of wikipedia. IT's like referring to white people as Dermalcaucasian on the "african-american" page. Dragonnas (talk) 20:23, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

text: "Normal people" sounds good, if you're contrasting people who suffer a disorder with people who don't. 82.95.25.120 (talk) 11:54, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: But within the group of people who don't have autism are people with other disorders, mental and physical. Is a "neurotypical" person with cancer, depression or scoliosis really "normal"? While I personally dislike the sound and look of the word "neurotypical", it does a better job of defining just how the other people are different. InedibleHulk (talk) 10:09, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neurotypical 

message: there are several subgroups forming within the autism community, sometimes in strong opposition to one another
This is true of many, if not all communities and I think it would be good to cite here specifics.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.86.146.148 (talk) 03:18, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Good point. I made this change to do that. Eubulides (talk) 05:28, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  First paragraph 

message: "autistic individuals only exhibit skills that are exhibited by some proportion of the general population," 
doesn't every single person that ever existed only exhibits skills that are exhibited by some proportion of the general population? it doesn't say the propportion is big, or small, and even if someone has an unique skill,  1 in 5 billion (or whatever the number is) is still a proportion, no? --TiagoTiago (talk) 06:39, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, what is that even supposed to mean? This is an article on autism, somebody make it less confusing 74.46.203.165 (talk) 19:43, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No way, I thought we were talking about superheroes. Asperger == Genius, right? 82.95.25.120 (talk) 11:58, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Does this say anything that isn't obvious? 

message: This text used to be in the article as a subsection United Nations
:In 2004, some members of the autistic community issued a statement expressing their desire to be recognized as a minority group by the United Nations.
I just now checked, and I can't find any reliable source on this subject. The source given is a press release, which as per WP:RS is a self-published source and is not reliable. I checked for a 3rd-party source (e.g., a news article) and came up empty. So I removed the section for now. We can restore it if we find a reliable 3rd-party source. Eubulides (talk) 18:49, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: A press release is indeed a RS that a press release was released. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:01, 11 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  United Nations 

message: "Children with AS often display advanced abilities for their age in language, reading, mathematics, spatial skills, and/or music—sometimes into the "gifted" range—but this may be counterbalanced by considerable delays in other developmental areas. This combination of traits can lead to problems with teachers and other authority figures"
The second sentence here doesn't seem to come after the first one - being especially gifted or slow in any given area doesn't equal "trouble with authority." I'm thinking this was a careless edit. Either way, this needs looking over. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.16.250.139 (talk) 01:20, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Logic break? 

message: From said article: 
"Some of the psychological and social problems of the love-shy men could be considered autistic because of the men's trouble in regards to peers, social interactions, and adjustment to change. Years later when asked in an email, Gilmartin felt that 40% of severely love-shy men would have Asperger syndrome. Love-shyness can also be associated with involuntary celibacy." 
*Brian G. Gilmartin (1987). Shyness & Love: Causes, Consequences, and Treatment ().
"In 2009, Talmer Shockley, a self-confessed love-shy, wrote The Love-Shy Survival Guide (2009). Shockley's book differs from Gilmartin's books and research in a few ways. Shockley classifies love-shyness as a phobia, though not one caused by an overt traumatic childhood incident. He acknowledges love-shy women and their need for help. He explores possible solutions for overcoming love-shyness, as well as the relationship between Asperger syndrome and love-shyness. Shockley offers no additional scientific proof of love-shyness except to reference the thousands of members of online discussion forums devoted to love-shyness."
*Talmer Shockley (2009). The Love-Shy Survival Guide ()
It may be worth mentioning in Sociological_and_cultural_aspects_of_autism#Difficulties_in_relationships, although Gilmartin's partial attribution of love-shyness to Asperger syndrome was more or less speculative. "22 Things a Woman Must Know: If She Loves a Man With Asperger's Syndrome" by Rudy Simone (along with several other books on Asperger syndrome and relationships) might also be worthwhile addition. Maxine Aston] has written three books on intimate relationships and Asperger syndrome. MichaelExe (talk) 20:58, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Love-shyness]] 

message: Having Aspergers myself, I am reading this article, and the general article on Aspergers, and every single sentence made me go "Awwwww, yeeeeaah!"  Everything in this article seemed like a biography of myself, until I saw a paragraph that said that, in the United States, ADA protections for Aspergers ends when you're 21.  After opening up the "edit" page, I realized that citation had been requested for that paragraph in March 2008, which basically means that it had been there, without citation, for TWO WHOLE YEARS!
Please, make sure something is correct before you put it there.  Not only is that bullcrap unsourced; it's not even true!Wikieditor1988 (talk) 19:15, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The content you removed said "the public schools' legal responsibility for providing services ends when the autistic person is 21 years of age."  I strongly suspect this is true, as a public school is not going to have anything to do with anyone once they reach that age, but I will try to find some kind of reference before re-introducing it.  And if it is wrong after all, then I will put in its place what is true. —Soap— 15:06, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Please do not post bullshit

message: Someone mentioned that Wikipedia is not here to support one thing over another, and is only here to post information. Therefore, I have two separate issues with this entire entry.
One- The section formally called "Gender" is now referred to as "Biological sex," because the section's content is referring to biological sex, and NOT gender. It should be common sense by now that physical/biological sex is NOT the same as gender. It is insulting and demeaning to anyone who is NOT cisgender or anyone who's gender and sex do NOT match, and is clearly supporting the views that everything and everyone is either male or female and that male=man or boy and female=woman or girl- which is in actuality not true.
Two- In at least one section of this article, "Animals," where evolution is mentioned. This is something that is clearly being promoted by materialists, and is not more factual and proven than any other belief system- yes it IS a belief system. Sorry to say, but I did not evolve from a monkey, and I would appreciate not being told someone else thinks I did when I just want to read an article about autism. Either put every point of view about the origins of humanity and autism in this article, or take that section out. It is also completely unnecessary giving the context of the article and/or section.
71.244.242.9 (talk) 13:36, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Please see Talk:Evolution/FAQ for why we treat evolution as factual; no comment on the other issues you raise. If the changes you made of "girls" to "females" are reverted, it may be for a different reason, namely that the term 'female' can apply to adults as well and the sources primarily are addressing children.  But that topic has been debated before and we are trying to avoid age-bound terminology whenever possible, so I dont have any objections to the change myself. —Soap— 13:53, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some corrections and clear biases that need to be fixed 

message: Definitely needs doing. --Penbat (talk) 18:48, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  New "Aspergers and bullying" section ? 

message: I  think this is a common phenomena, Asperger managers who get there by technical ability even if they lack interpersonal skills. I think the Finance director at a company i worked for had Aspergers and a regular manager at another place. --Penbat (talk) 19:54, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Workplace managers with Aspergers 

message: What percentage of adults with Aspergers know they have Aspergers ? Of those who know did they work it out for themselves or if somebody else who ? Also what percentage of adults with Aspergers get any sort of special social or medical care laid on ? What perecentage have doctors who know they have Aspergers ?  What percentage of adults with Aspergers have people at work who know they have Aspergers and make special allowances or is the mental health taboo generally preventing this ? --Penbat (talk) 20:01, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The last three queries are interesting, but we need sources. All of these topics are covered in secondary reviews meeting WP:MEDRS (we discussed it somewhere eons ago on the AS article-- the talk page archives would have to be searched). In other words, if you want to do the work, have at it, but locate secondary reviews that meet MEDRS.  SandyGeorgia (Talk) 20:10, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adults with Aspergers 

message: I really don't think this has much, if anything, to do with sociological and cultural aspects of autism, but I didn't feel sure about removing it, so I thought I'd ask about it here. - Purplewowies (talk) 03:29, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks fine to me.  SandyGeorgia (Talk) 08:17, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Light It Up Blue section 

message: I propose that Autism spectrum disorders in the media be merged into Sociological and cultural aspects of autism. The new article is quite brief, and based largely on sources and text already present in this article-- content which is better explained in the context of this article.  A separate article doesn't seem warranted, and the content can easily be included here (as it always has been) without creating problems of article size or undue weight. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 08:17, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: * What does The article "is the subject of an educational assignment at University of Massachusetts Amherst supported by the Wikipedia Ambassador Program during the 2012 Q1 term."  have to do with anything?  SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:24, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: *You don't think it's a bad idea to remove an article being used as part of a college course affiliated with an official Wikimedia project? If not, several other articles from this class certainly have less merit than this one. Why not wait a month until the end of the class? --BDD (talk) 21:54, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: * I think it's a better idea to make sure the students are learning correct editing, and removing articles after the course ends teaches them little.  Most of the articles generated by student editing projects are faulty are not notable, and I can't deal with all of them-- this is one I follow.  At any rate, the editor of this article is now expanding it to include some other topics, so I'm inclined towards removing my merge proposal if that editor adds more areas of coverage -- will wait a few more days to see which way it's going.  At any rate, as a general matter, that some misguided professor who may not understand Wikipedia thinks a given topic is notable is not a reason for us to not better inform the students.  Our concern should be our readers, not students' grades. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 14:38, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: *While I understand your initial objections to the new article, I ask that you not be denigrative of the United States Education Program and my instructor; there is nothing "misguided" about my professor or the Wikipedia Global Education Program. Despite any slapdash opposition you may have to the program or how it is carried out, the foundation's goal to ignite enthusiasm about free access to knowledge is a nobile one. That having been said, Autism spectrum disorders in the media is not focused on autism in the media in it's relation to the sociology and culture of autism, but instead on how the media presents those disorders, therefore warranting a separate article. Pbruce1110 (talk) 22:31, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal 

message: The two sentence paragraph only mentions how social science scholars are increasingly studying it.  Perhaps the good faith edit meant that scholars were diverting more attention to the topic rather than trying to explain college/university scholarships for people with ASD? Either way, the section is too brief to be informative, and the slightest bit misleading.  I'd like to remove it, but I'm not a wikipedian and figured the proper thing to do was call attention to the section for clarification first. 2601:240:C001:46EF:30BB:7064:DB42:1EDB (talk) 10:17, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Section on "Scholarship" Barely References Scholarships 

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