alt.education

"Bob LeChevalier" wrote in message
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> cary@afone.as.arizona.edu (Cary Kittrell) wrote:
>
>>In article
>><93dc2d74-de20-4700-987f-8128227e152f@e60g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> Wide
>>Eyed in Wonder writes:
>>> On Feb 17, 6:47 pm, "stevericks" wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> So, I guess we can see what your prejudice is against me...I'm a Bible
>>> believing Christian. The horror....right? Why you feel the need to
>>> insert this in this discussion (which is not religious at all) is
>>> interesting. Atheists are constantly fearing that Christians will
>>> force their faith (out of context) upon others. I've been on here for
>>> dozens of posts without mentioning religion, even once. Yet, the
>>> atheist cannot resist pushing his atheism upon the group.
>>>
>>> Kenneth Clifton
>>> christiansuperhero.com
>>
>>"the atheist"?
>>
>>Once again our superhero astonishes with a stunning leap of illogic.
>>
>>
>>Is anyone aware of a clinical term for the pathological total inability
>>to feel embarrassment?
>
> It doesn't give a term, but this chapter seems to discuss the general
> topic of shame and embarrassment. See especially around p94.
>
> http://books.google.com/books?id=QrCENRx6klUC&pg=PA78&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=0_0&sig=eFXChrNkE_qS96U9tbJ9nEWiGlU#PPA83,M1
>

I do know that people with autism have difficulty with embarrassment. One
needs to be socially aware, socially astute to feel embarrassment. This was
an emotion my son had difficulty with as a younger boy. Where a
neurotypical person would feel embrassed (i.e., a person stumbles, someone
laughs at him, he feels embarrassed at the gaff), my son admitted to feeling
angry that the other laughed at him for "no reason at all." Only after
quite a bit of therapy, and learning more about the hidden curriculum, did
he start to feel the beginnings of embarrassment--and found he was quite
uncomfortable with it. However, it did help with therapy--the social
reinforcement was much more immediate after that type of feedback. But we
still had to do role-playing and social stories, the ABC of behavior
analysis with him once he became more metacognitive as he grew older, so he
could learn more about the "whys" of his experiences, and not make the same
mistakes.

--
Buny
--Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be
normal." ~ Albert Camus