Archive for July, 2009
Interview with agony aunt Barabara Jacobs
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 | Oddpod | 4 Comments
Is the Cassandra Affective Deprivation Disorder (CADD)attributed to some non-spectrum partners of Aspies be real? And if so, could it also apply to those on the autism spectrum who feel they are not loved for who they really are? If CADD is little more than a recently formulated syndrome, could it not be confused with things like co-dependency, Masochistic Personality Disorder or even more common in those with personality traits which are more socially needy than those without these traits? And if those claiming to suffer from CADD are mostly non-spectrum women living with autistic partners, what about non-spectrum men in a similar position? Do they experience CADD too? How might mixed partnerships between spectrum and non-spectrum adults avoid culture clashes being blamed as ‘deprivation’? Here Barbara Jacobs and I discuss these issues in the context of the recent Tony Attwood controversy.
That Tony Attwood Controversy
Monday, July 13th, 2009 | Oddpod | 34 Comments
Following the recent incendiary theatrics surrounding international autism expert and author, Tony Attwood, I invited him to a Skype interview. I recorded the hour long interview in which I asked Tony about his involvement with FAAS, his take on CAAD, his view on autistic culture and the autistic pride movement, about the concept of hate groups and whether he does farcical characterisations of non-spectrum people too. The result was an amusing interview nearly an hour long.