Asperger's syndrom ; truth or myth

I have read  that in the last decades the number of autism cases have increased dramatically .In the articale which investigates autism , famous names of science confirm the teory that inteligency and autism come together . Newton , Einstein , Darwin and art workaholic such as Van Gogh and Warhol , all of them are thought to have had Asperger's - a mild version of autistic disorder , experts claim .The syndrom could have helped Darwin focus intently on his work . According to psychologist of Univercity of Cambridge , Simon Baron - Cohen , this strikes people who are systemisers , involved often in science , engineering or mathe -matics . As prof. Baron - Cohen claims , parents who are educated and both work in this fields , are more likely to have autistic children .
Recently I have by chance heard of Asperger's syndrom a couple of times , knowing previously nothing about the disorder. Maybe that means that in fact the numbers of people touched by autism increased . People with autism in the UK reached more than half a milion ,but people with Asperger's are intelligent and don't cause communication problems.The number of people diagnosed with autism have grown dramatically during the last 20 years , as UK is concerned .
According to Baron-Cohen ,that happens partly because of genes and partly environmental factors matters .
His earlier study in Eindhoven , the town with high concentration of IT industry showed that children living there are for times likely to be diagnosed with autism then in other Dutch towns .
Of course some researchers say that was known before and  autistic people are nowadays better diagnosed .
No matter  who is right , it seems that partly the teory could be true - human species pay the price for the developement .But is Asperger's syndrom really a disorder? People from the beginning aimed to put things in order . Is our civilisation wrong with all this attemps to measure, systemise and find out how world works?
The human's desire to discover the parallel words far beyond the Earths and The Solar System is the part of this curiosity, which makes people willing to put this outside world in order as well . Could it be one time fatal for humankind ?
And isn't blogging a kind of putting in order our thougts and systemise our knowledge, day after day, in monthly archive ?
In others words , should we stop creating more complicated systems and putting them in order  as not to become autistic society and lose ability to express emotions ?

The most important things

That was a title of a newspaper's column , actually " Five most important things in life ", according to a book writer. There was short description on author's new published book and a note about her life . I don't know if it is a regular column in this newspaper , as I very rarely read this one . But the answers were interesting , especially that not too many people would regard them as worth to mention . She chose :

• earth ( literally closeness to soil in garden or mountain )
• stillness
• animals
• culture
• wine

I think a few people could consider earth as one of the most important things in life . Actually ,quite opposite most people could think that contact with the ground ,stones and wild plants is somehow obscure.If we look closely , what our civilisation do with the earth's surface - no wonder . Humans don't like being in the land where everything is untieded - wild grasses and the soil is full of germs .The best thing is to sow green grass , dispose pebbles and put on the ground slabs , asphalt , concrete . Seed around only friendly plants , flat all bumps , put fences .

The strangest thing for me is that many people from cities going on holidays choose the same environment for having a rest . I mean , instead of concret jungle of  streets , buildings , pavements  and so on , similar landscape of exclusive coastal resorts .Same pavements , glass and concrete , shops and hotels . Moreover, you don't have to even move to the local beach ,which is often full of stones and water is salty-you can enjoy
splashing in the pool right by the hotel , sipping Tequilla from the bar .You can visit water center build near -by .No smell of seaweeds , no sound of noisy seagulls . Everything clean and cousy .
But what's the point to spent holiday time in places which actually looks and sound in the same way like in the city ? Why to go to exotic places if you only sit in modern looking surrondings , with possibility of nice view from the window or deck-chair ?

So who else thinks that everyday contact with mother-earth  vital for us , humans ?

Street work .

Anyone wonders over the fact why people do beg on the streets ? I do .

And the next question ? Do they beg ? Maybe they are in  work . I think in some cases this is surely a profe-ssion . Just getting up in the morning ( wherever it is ) , getting perhaps on the bus , and when on right place preparing properly for their duties ; rolling out a blanket , putting a hat in right position with few coins , taking out of backpack a bottle with drink . If with a dog as a companion by the side, adjusting it's position . Just everyday , boring routine , like in the most other jobs people have to do for living . Eight , ten hours , couple of breaks for stretching bones out , urinate and get something to eat when hungry . Simple .

Or maybe for some of them there is an  addiction to be dependent on others' good will and compassion . In some way this passive way of earning for food and clothes demands being brave - just you need to forget about the shame when you begin as a beggar . And such attitude for getting money to survive cost much - the independence - because an addiction limits free choice , human will to improve and develop . It seems that counting only on people's help makes them blunt and indifferent . Many of them are addict to drugs and alcohol , so begging is the only way of sustain themselves , if don't want to go into rehab .

I often pass by those people on the street , and don't give them money - when somebody gives them food as they ask for money to get food , most of them would throw it away afterward . I can see sometimes people stops asking questions , what happened , what can do for them to overcome this bad luck in life. But they can't help - it's useless. They don't want to stop begging . Probably the worst problems would appear when after years of being homeless they would have to be able to live in stable and clean environment ,with people who don't understand obstacles they must face in order to get back to common way of live .

Last night I was passing a girl sitting by the store on the pavement , who looked at me mildly when I noticed her . I thought instantly that having caught my eyes she would ask loudly for a change , but she said nothing .
Just was looking at me as if she was interested in faces of people passing by . She was quite young yet and with nice face . That made me think why people do that , and if there is really no way of helping them ?

Colours of The Autumn

Autumn time is my favourite season of the year.  Although not so hot like during summer nor green as spring is .But for the certain time in the end of October , amazingly it stops raining and there is a lot of sun .And then the Sun makes miraculous thing ; displays all the colours of the autumn .The one can admire fantastic array of colour packed trees , just sheer explosion of colours ; gold , yellow , orange , brown and green mix together . This is the feast for the eyes .

Sometimes you can feel a kind of calmness walking through picturesque tree aisles , on the golden carpets of fallen leaves . You can sense that something is ending , and new , harsh time is knocking to the doors . Soon the wind will strip the branches off the leaves . But for now let's forget about oncoming winter , let's enjoy that beautiful scenery .



Such phenomena ( trees getting rid of leaves ) takes place in colder climate zones - Autumn's leaves dropping occurs mainly in the Northern Hemisphere , so not everybody on our planet can experiences that wonderful nature's wonder . So that's the reason for becoming new touristic sector - I  have recently read that watching the fall in north - eastern U.S. states attracts more and more tourist . Tourist offices offers such possibility in forested regions .
Even in Scotland , in the wake of United States , this new tourist trend has been adopted , like in Pertshire recently . At last why not to go fishing salmon or visit castle residences  when the nature is bursting into such colourful flame .