On Tuesday, November 30th, CSLN visited Autism Ontario for their “Teen Group” program. We had blast hanging out with the teens that came out (whom had varying degrees of either autism or Asperger syndrome) and decorating the main room in preparation for their Christmas party next week.
Autism is a neural developmental disorder. People with autism generally have difficulties in their social and behavioural skills. While this may be true, most of the teens that showed up were very social (and extremely intelligent)! It is pretty cool to be able to discuss the Human Genome Project with a 13-year-old (and be corrected by them).
All in all, it was a great experience talking to everyone and getting a new perspective on a disorder (and being able to humanize it) that we may have only heard about in Psychology 1000. Looking forward to going back soon!
-Michael Salna
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