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Doctors amazed by girl's ability to describe austism from the inside
Psychology Posted by Keel on Wednesday February 27, @06:25AM
from the communications dept.

Carly Fleischmann has severe autism and is unable to speak a word. But thanks to years of expensive and intensive therapy, this 13-year-old has made a remarkable breakthrough. Carly Fleischman expresses feelings by typing on her laptop computer. 

Arthur Fleischmann: "We were stunned. We realized inside was an articulate, intelligent, emotive person that we had never met. This was unbelievable because it opened up a whole new way of looking at her. Laypeople would have assumed she was mentally retarded or cognitively impaired. Even professionals labelled her as moderately to severely cognitively impaired. In the old days you would say mentally retarded, which means low IQ and low promise and low potential".

Carly Fleischmann: "It is hard to be autistic because no one understands me. People look at me and assume I am dumb because I can't talk or I act differently than them. I think people get scared with things that look or seem different than them." http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=4311223&page=1

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