alt.education

Buny,

Yes, there are people that suffer as a result of not recognizing
embarrassment. I wasn't that aware of the issue with autism so am glad you
shared. However, I don't think that is the situation with our troll. He is
far to calculating, cold, and plotting. He is just having a good time
trolling.
"SumBuny" wrote in message
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> "Bob LeChevalier" wrote in message
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>> cary@afone.as.arizona.edu (Cary Kittrell) wrote:
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>>>In article
>>><93dc2d74-de20-4700-987f-8128227e152f@e60g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> Wide
>>>Eyed in Wonder writes:
>>>> On Feb 17, 6:47 pm, "stevericks" wrote:
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>>>> 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
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>>>"the atheist"?
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>>>Once again our superhero astonishes with a stunning leap of illogic.
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>>>Is anyone aware of a clinical term for the pathological total inability
>>>to feel embarrassment?
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>> It doesn't give a term, but this chapter seems to discuss the general
>> topic of shame and embarrassment. See especially around p94.
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>> http://books.google.com/books?id=QrCENRx6klUC&pg=PA78&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=0_0&sig=eFXChrNkE_qS96U9tbJ9nEWiGlU#PPA83,M1
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> 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.
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> --
> Buny
> --Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be
> normal." ~ Albert Camus
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