Tony Attwood 7/7: third generation CBT for Aspergers

Attwood back in Rome 28 and 29, May, 2015. www.spazioasper...
Can a third generation CBT approach such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy be effective for Aspergers?

[@Yadeehoo]

Wow yeah, nice approach

[@TelmaLuz]

isso mesmo!

[@Corvoart]

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[@harikrishnanchandramohan4209]

Does anyone else think the aspergers is more of a subconscious pattern than social interaction. From my observation, its always been like this. For example, if you put a Russian in Australia, he is more likely to meet another Russian because of his subconscious pattern of meeting his own kind. Similarly, for an aspie, no matter what he does to socialize, it always ends up having 1 or 2 evaporating friends to go out with or to have an intellectual orgasm. The relationship ends at that point. If he gets to meet the same friend after 6 months of parting, it almost feels like he is a stranger and couldn't talk to him like before. Whereas for NTs, they don't even try to socialize. Wherever they go, just like the Russian attracts another Russian, they have a girlfriend and a group of friends who are almost like a family that share similar interests, excited abt each others birthday parties, their friends marriage is like the most important event in their lives. Because I have seen NTs postponing work schedules, or even skipping uni exams for attending a friend of friend's marriage, whereas I skip my own birthday party. How many of you agree that it is a subconscious pattern more than social skills...

[@alvaroschudeck957]

I think it is more deeper than that, I used to explain it in myself as if in the very basic structures of the mind, when we were forming those.structures, we developed then different as we percieved and processes the information of the external media diferently, because it just worked ok the moment our minds did it the first times so the mind kept developed in that way.

[@venix2256]

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