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The Woman Who Thinks like a Cow (Temple Grandin), shown on Horizon on BBC2 last week:- http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/temple.shtml Did anyone wtach thisThe Woman Who Thinks like a Cow (Temple Grandin) programme? Larry ( or anyone else), What do you think of Temple Grandin's ideas on Autism and what was being professed withibn this documentry by the so called 'medical-experts' who are trying to make clinical judgement that 'we' are 'brain damaged', not 'neurodiversity'? I can relate in Temple world when she stated the follwing:- 'Temple believes she experiences life like a prey animal in the wild. Her emotions are much simpler than most people's and she feels constantly anxious – always alert and looking for danger. It's this struggle with overwhelming anxiety that led her to discover just how much she has in common with animals and, in particular, cows. All my life I have felt in continual state of 'high-anxiety' and live in 'fear' and felt that I live in a continous state of 'flight, or fight', which is triggered by the 'environment' and those people around me. Why do you think that many of us neurodiverse/austistic people then turn to alcohol and other substances to enable us to cope within these environments. If anyone has a basic understanding of they 'neurobiological' effects of alcohol and others 'opiate-substances', even within our foodchain. I know when I go into public places I feel very anxious and after a few beers, then I feel more relaxed and more sociable. Alcohol is (has) a (been) form of 'self-medication' for me and also I have used gambling in the same way too in my life. For those who know aboutthe effects of alocohol on the brain, then will understand that it's obvious that alocohol and other opiate substances will have a 'dampening-down' impact for many neurodiverse/autistic people. Yours Colin _________________________________________________________________ Are you using the latest version of MSN Messenger? Download MSN Messenger 7.5 today! http://join.msn.com/messenger/overview ________________End of message______________________ This Disability-Research Discussion list is managed by the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds (www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies). Enquiries about the list administratione should be sent to [log in to unmask] Archives and tools are located at: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html You can JOIN or LEAVE the list from this web page.