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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 374675" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>A lot of this is too US-specific, but I should be able to glean some useful information from this. Thanks, Fran.</p><p></p><p>On the topic of music and autism, a cousin of mine did a lot of pioneer work in this area back in the 70s and 80s. He was working mostly in the UK with a little overlap in Australia. It's ironic, because I now believe this cousin was Aspie. He died a few years ago, too late to talk to him about it. But I have a family reunion coming up in a couple of months. I'm hoping to talk to people there about autism in general and this gifted cousin in particular. My sister remembers him sitting at the dining table, in his mid teens, writing an orchestral score down onto manuscript. No instrument, just him, a pen and the manuscript. And something playing in his head...</p><p>Soon after difficult child 3 was diagnosed, I tried to make contact with this cousin but he had apparently become a recluse. difficult child 3 was showing similar early music tendencies as I remember my aunt telling me about cousin when he was a baby. I remember telling my mother that I thought difficult child 3 was showing tendencies like cousin; my mother said, "Oh glory be, I hope not!"</p><p>A biography has been written about him, I'm trying to get a copy but I gather there is a lot of inaccuracy, at least about our family. My sister has read it. I need to read it too, before the reunion. It was an authorised biography, I gather the author talked to my cousin at length and from what I know, would have got a highly colourful and somewhat creative version of events, as HE wanted to recall them...</p><p>But he did some good work with kids and music, he was trying to use music to open the door for autistic kids, was enthralled by the reactions of some of them. Long before I knew autism was going to be an issue in my life, I remember talking to him about it. I was barely out of my teens myself.</p><p></p><p>I've commented that people on the spectrum tend to find one another. I wonder how many therapists and researchers are drawn to autism because of a similar personal connection?</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 374675, member: 1991"] A lot of this is too US-specific, but I should be able to glean some useful information from this. Thanks, Fran. On the topic of music and autism, a cousin of mine did a lot of pioneer work in this area back in the 70s and 80s. He was working mostly in the UK with a little overlap in Australia. It's ironic, because I now believe this cousin was Aspie. He died a few years ago, too late to talk to him about it. But I have a family reunion coming up in a couple of months. I'm hoping to talk to people there about autism in general and this gifted cousin in particular. My sister remembers him sitting at the dining table, in his mid teens, writing an orchestral score down onto manuscript. No instrument, just him, a pen and the manuscript. And something playing in his head... Soon after difficult child 3 was diagnosed, I tried to make contact with this cousin but he had apparently become a recluse. difficult child 3 was showing similar early music tendencies as I remember my aunt telling me about cousin when he was a baby. I remember telling my mother that I thought difficult child 3 was showing tendencies like cousin; my mother said, "Oh glory be, I hope not!" A biography has been written about him, I'm trying to get a copy but I gather there is a lot of inaccuracy, at least about our family. My sister has read it. I need to read it too, before the reunion. It was an authorised biography, I gather the author talked to my cousin at length and from what I know, would have got a highly colourful and somewhat creative version of events, as HE wanted to recall them... But he did some good work with kids and music, he was trying to use music to open the door for autistic kids, was enthralled by the reactions of some of them. Long before I knew autism was going to be an issue in my life, I remember talking to him about it. I was barely out of my teens myself. I've commented that people on the spectrum tend to find one another. I wonder how many therapists and researchers are drawn to autism because of a similar personal connection? Marg [/QUOTE]
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