Autism + Self-Awareness

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Autism + awareness of self.

Certainly fits me.

i love to read articles like that. i think i explained something like that about myself in a blog entry years ago (before i even knew autism was a spectrum or that i was on it) but this is much better explained.

i guess i should put this idea on top of my filter-pile again.

Interesting.
But why did they only measure male brains?
I wonder if it's the same for females.
My psychiatrist says males with autism function differently compared to females with autism. I wonder what they would find if they would also measure females, and what the differences (and similarities) will be between males and females with autism (and compared to NT males and NT females). There might be differences. I think it would be interesting to measure females as well, before drawing a conclusion for all autistic people.

Based on the information in the article, I do not understand the conclusion (perhaps the information was in the results but has not been included in the article).

The article simply states that test subjects with Autism had the same level of activity in the target area when thinking about the Queen as they had when thinking about themselves. It does not state that the amount of activity in the target area when thinking about themselves was less relative to controls. Based on that information, it makes as much sense to suggest that activity in this area was excessive (in the Autistic subjects) when thinking about others (such as the queen) but typical for thinking about themselves.

It says the controls had a higher level when thinking of self, and the autistic about the same.

We need to work on Ego.

The British are stuck in the 60's, Hey! It worked once!

So no girls, for they lead the world in Male Brained, and Self Centered. It may not be right, but it is British!

One of the other articles does state that girls with a high verbal IQ do pass, and with a tight sweater and the general female playing dumb till you get it right, leads to researchers marrying strangers.

They also state that autism is not following the disease model, and is much broader than thought, it is not have it or not, but a range that spreads through the population. So there is the dawn of the 70's coming to British research.

The National Health Service seems to have an established quota system, 1 in 5 girls to boys, and new data would change the funding allotments.

Government funds are to be spent on NTs making a study of autism, to keep up employment. This has nothing to do with producing understanding that would be of use to autistic people. They are only research subjects used to build more research centers.

An equal testing of researchers and controls would show a very strong sense of self in researchers, in fact an overriding sense, compared to anything else. Ego plays a large role in medical professions.

As Scientist says, until we make a broad and equal study, we have no idea what the population is doing. My own observation is 10% fit the Broader Autism Phenotype. Only 1 in 100 is considered Autistic, so my question would be, what would a study of the whole population show to be the 10% at the other end? What are the 1% Type Cases that define that?

This study compares Autistics to random people, what was the spread and range of random people?

It seems relevant in my case. I have always noted a certain "selflessness" within myself, as opposed to my observation of others and maybe this is at least partly responsible. I don't appear to have a self with which to relate to, perhaps.