egocentrism

On the textbook assigned for this class, the author Siegler and Wagner debate whether Piaget theory for children in the preoperational stage are entirely egocentric or not. They believed that under other circumstances children can take other people perspective rather than their own. The author also relates the idea that classifying a group or a stage as being "egocentric" it misleads us to think only the preoperational children are entirely egocentric and see older children as not. This biased topic is also applied to children and adults with Aspenger Syndrome, mostly known as Autistic kids. This is one of the Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Asperger Syndrome in children is also classified into Autism, but these children have better cognitive skills than other autistic kids whom can't function, interact and engage with their outer environment. They are seen to have a normal intellect but have difficulties in delay in language. and suffer with clumsiness. In fact children with Asperger Syndrome could have exellent motor and verbal skills. They can certainly comunicate effectively and have coordinate free bodily movements. They can express their feelings and emotions, but are also believed to be unable to succeed in social relationship or social intearctions. they are believed to be egocentric and can't take other people's perspective and relate to other people's feelings. The DSM mainly highlights lack to demonstrate empathy toward peers and lack of social interaction for asperger children or autistic children. In my experience with autistic children with asperger syndrome are very intelligent children who do present egocentrim as Piaget's mentionened. The are clues such as lack on empathy with peers and are unable to get other people points of view but their own. They do change one topic to another abruptly. One example would be to not being able to realize when someone could get upset or get someone sad because of their actions. They can talk hours and hours without even perceiving a person's is not even interacting with them, but for them they believe they are engaging in a conversation without even letting a person time to talk or reply. They do present egocentrism, but they also can see someone cry or be upset and know a person's sense of mood, rather than their own. The fact is that they don't know how to exteriorize those feelings and be more empathetic about other people's feelings or how to say the proper word to comfort someone.