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Dyadic Repair: A Clinical Approach to Autistic Recovery and Prodigy Retrieval. Rima Laibow, M.D.
Clinical evidence with the group of autistic and autistic-like children treated through Dyadic Repair in this country and in Europe suggests strongly that many, perhaps most, autistic persons are prodigies. It appears that autists are persons gifted with prodigiously high intellectual and empathetic endowments who, early in their developmental lives, learn to use an overwhelming, pervasive withdrawal and rejection of the environment. Because of a combination of intrinsic and extrinsic factors (coincidence), these children remain in a position of extreme withdrawal and retreat with deficits which potentiate (and are potentiated by) pervasive and sadistic rage in the face of failed attachment. Appearing unreachable and out of contact with the environment they are, in fact, intensely connected to it. Regardless of the pervasive and discouraging appearance of the neurological, metabolic and physical damage which may be present, the apparently untreatable state of the autist must not be taken as conclusive proof of the unassailable nature of these disabilities. Rather, they may be potentially remediable deficits.
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