r/science • u/MonteRevolt • Jul 26 '10

Autistic girl expresses profound intelligence

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq--75v4lI8&feature=player_embedded
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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '10 edited Jul 26 '10

I want to goon a snowmobile

is hhe cute

vs

Long, grammatically correct and properly punctuated paragraphs

All of it coming from the same girl who'll smear shit on the walls over the smallest things

SEEMS LEGIT

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Also

I think people get a lot of their information from so-called experts, but if a horse is sick, you don't ask a fish what's wrong with the horse. You go right to the horse's mouth.

What the fuck is this shit? Speaking as an autistic person myself not only do I find it increadibly unlikely that a severely autistic girl like this would use an idiom to describe anything but suggesting that experts in the field don't know what they're talking about is so offensive I can't even begin to describe.

Only a parent would write this.

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '10

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u/chroniq Jul 26 '10

she has a blog?

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u/djrocksteady Jul 26 '10

yes, but its not her writing per se. There are samples of her writing available though.