Dear Larry and Colin,
Firstly, I wish to apologise for any offence that I seem to have caused as
a result of my request yesterday. This was totally unintentional and I
can't help but feel that it came about as a result of misinterpretation of
my request.
For the record though, I should clarify the purpose of my request and my
intentions/motives behind it.
The reason for my request was primarily personal - yes I am involved in
research, but as a person with AS I have a personal interest in accessing
information too and in this instance it was this personal interest that
drove me to seek this information. [So don't worry Larry, my apparently
badly-worded attempt at finding information is not going to lead to yet
more medical-model biased research as you seem to fear.]
The only reason I ask whether there is any research on the subject is
because I read somewhere that prevalence of what is termed !psychiatric co-
morbidity' [and actually, I don't like the terminology any better than you
do, but to an extent one is forced to rely on the terminology in common use
in order to express oneself - such is the rather flawed nature of verbal
communication] may be higher among higher functioning people on the
autistic spectrum, the thing I read suggested that this could be due to an
increased ability to report these issues among people who generally had
better skills of verbal communication.
I was wondering however whether the fact that many people who are higher
functioning are forced to live a greater part of their lives without
diagnosis and the tools to understand themselves may in fact lead to
increased prevalence of issues such as depression, anxiety etc.
Once again I apologise if terminology I used caused offence - it's just
that one sometimes finds oneself unable to express oneself because of
inadequate terminology and sometimes one needs to jump in with both feet
and use commonly accepted language in order to get anywhere ...
Yours,
Gillian
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