Comments on: Interview with agony aunt Barabara Jacobs http://oddpod.donnawilliams.net/2009/07/21/interview-with-agony-aunt-barabara-jacobs/ Podcasts by autism-friendly host, Donna Williams Sat, 06 Aug 2011 22:26:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Barbara Jacobs http://oddpod.donnawilliams.net/2009/07/21/interview-with-agony-aunt-barabara-jacobs/comment-page-1/#comment-2004 Barbara Jacobs Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:21:00 +0000 http://oddpod.donnawilliams.net/?p=15#comment-2004 Hi Flossy! I've read the paper, and think it's just a rewrite of CADD, trying not to position it as a 'disorder' which exclusively affects NT women, but they haven't managed it! They've just redescribed AS as having low emotional intelligence, alexithymia, and a low empathy quotient. You'll also notice that the list of symptoms sounds very female. Harriet (Holly) Simons counsels for CADD in the USA. So it's the same old same old, basically, just prettied up a bit! It's also a very poor paper, academically. Mayer and Salovey were the theorists behind 'emotional intelligence'(1989). Daniel Goleman was just a journalist who wrote a best-selling book about it (1996) and made some pretty wild claims. If anyone quotes Goleman as a reference, you can be pretty sure that they're not good scholars. Hi Flossy!

I’ve read the paper, and think it’s just a rewrite of CADD, trying not to position it as a ‘disorder’ which exclusively affects NT women, but they haven’t managed it! They’ve just redescribed AS as having low emotional intelligence, alexithymia, and a low empathy quotient. You’ll also notice that the list of symptoms sounds very female. Harriet (Holly) Simons counsels for CADD in the USA. So it’s the same old same old, basically, just prettied up a bit!

It’s also a very poor paper, academically. Mayer and Salovey were the theorists behind ‘emotional intelligence’(1989). Daniel Goleman was just a journalist who wrote a best-selling book about it (1996) and made some pretty wild claims. If anyone quotes Goleman as a reference, you can be pretty sure that they’re not good scholars.

]]> By: Flossy http://oddpod.donnawilliams.net/2009/07/21/interview-with-agony-aunt-barabara-jacobs/comment-page-1/#comment-2002 Flossy Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:37:52 +0000 http://oddpod.donnawilliams.net/?p=15#comment-2002 Here is that Dr. Simons paper. She implies Aspies suffer CADD equally with NTs (which I have not heard before). Her contact emal at the bottom http://www.maxineaston.co.uk/cassandra/Affective%20Deprivation.pdf She steers a course midway between dogmatic spectrumites and dogmatic typicalites if ive understood it. Here is that Dr. Simons paper. She implies Aspies suffer CADD equally with NTs (which I have not heard before). Her contact emal at the bottom http://www.maxineaston.co.uk/cassandra/Affective%20Deprivation.pdf

She steers a course midway between dogmatic spectrumites and dogmatic typicalites if ive understood it.

]]> By: Flossy http://oddpod.donnawilliams.net/2009/07/21/interview-with-agony-aunt-barabara-jacobs/comment-page-1/#comment-2001 Flossy Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:03:56 +0000 http://oddpod.donnawilliams.net/?p=15#comment-2001 Loved yout talk. Forget the interviewer's name (sorry) but she is really interesting! The discussion about alexithymia was so interesting I went and researched it some more. Could you talk some more about this? Read an article by a lady Dr. Simons about alexithymia and CADD which married the same topics. Can you get her on your show for a talk? She seems more balanced than most commentators. Flossy Loved yout talk. Forget the interviewer’s name (sorry) but she is really interesting! The discussion about alexithymia was so interesting I went and researched it some more. Could you talk some more about this?

Read an article by a lady Dr. Simons about alexithymia and CADD which married the same topics. Can you get her on your show for a talk? She seems more balanced than most commentators.

Flossy

]]> By: Katharine Annear http://oddpod.donnawilliams.net/2009/07/21/interview-with-agony-aunt-barabara-jacobs/comment-page-1/#comment-1994 Katharine Annear Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:29:33 +0000 http://oddpod.donnawilliams.net/?p=15#comment-1994 Thanks so much ladies. Down with hate. In with faith, hope and resilience - qualities displayed by human beings everyday!! Thanks so much ladies. Down with hate. In with faith, hope and resilience – qualities displayed by human beings everyday!!

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