Post-Diagnostic Support Group meeting, Wednesday 17th July 2019
Q & A Session with Dr. Linda Buchan, Clinical Psychologist and Director of Axia-ASD.
This meeting was a chance to catch up with any recent developments in the field of Autism and ask any questions about anything Autism related to Linda.
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These recorded PDSG sessions are undoubtedly useful/helpful for someone living abroad. I found Linda’s interest in Peter Vermuelen’s work on sensory issues particularly interesting. I live in a very noisy part of the World, and I frequently find that too much noise at once destroys my ability to focus my attention on one thing in particular. I agree that when noise is predictable (such as at a gig), it can be dealt with quite easily. But I also note that when I ran a PA system, I used to find it quite difficult to do on-the-fly audio repair when a band were actually playing; particularly a fairly loud band.
I also note that Peter Vermuelen is one of the advocates of context blindness AKA caetextia. I encountered this idea while reading about various theapies. I am perhaps a bit skeptical about this idea, since it almost seems to me that it is just a slightly divergent explanation of what most of us still prefer to think of as autism. But it is interesting, nevertheless. I think I might now take a look at some of Peter’s work. I might even be able to post a review on this site.
Also interested in Luke Beardon’s upcoming book on Autopia. As far as I can see, it hasn’t yet been published, so perhaps someone could review it here, when publication occurs.
Thanks for your comments
Peter is an interesting speaker
Luke’s presentation at the North Wales conference will be about his book
We shall review it too