Wired Differently- Why not "diagnose" via MRI?

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Universal negatives are surely wrong.

1. Imagine a child
2. The child does not have autism
3. Car wreck
4. Severe brain injury
5. Child now has autism

Do you not draw the conclusion that the car injury caused the child's autism?

I can see, Eikonabridge, that you're raising your kids well with innovative strategies, and that they are thriving under your regimen.

But I don't really like claims of "superiority." Who do you hang out with who are "different"? Usually, when people boast like you just did, it makes me doubt the veracity of your claims. I find people who claim to be "superior" to do this out of defensiveness. People who are confident don't have to boast. They let their words speak for themselves.

MAYBE.

Did the car wreck actually cause the brain injury?  Did treatment of the child's other injuries cause the child's brain to be damaged?  Was the child allergic to any of the medications it received?  Did it receive enough oxygen on the way to the hospital?  Was the blood the child received fully compatible and free of contaminants?

Again, the car wreck may have been a contributory cause, but not a proximal or immediate cause.

There just is not enough detail in the scenario you presented to draw a definite conclusion.

Believe it or not, I have addressed this type of comment multiple times, in front of your eyes, but you still don't get it. I hope this time you do pay attention. Alright?

Here are two videos of people talking about Richard Feynman. One from Leonard Susskind. Another one from Murray Gell-Mann. Susskind was upbeat and all excited talking about hanging around with Feynman. Murray Gell-Mann was hurt and resentful. The funny thing is: they were both talking about the same person.




Sure, Feynman had a "gargantuan ego." But somehow, that was zero issue with Susskind. It was Gell-Mann the one that was hurt and resentful.

Let me ask you: which one of the three has the devil living inside them? Which person was the one that truly needed to change and be happy?

The answer is not Richard Feynman. He continues to be liked and admired by millions of people, despite of all his flaws as a person. Gell-Mann was the person that truly had problems. He let his inferiority complex bother him. He is a Nobel Prize winner. But he has inferiority complex.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. (Eleanor Roosevelt.)

Unfortunately, all too many people forget about this sentence.

MRI cost a lot of cash

The insurance is only willing to pay for the MRI when an event occurs where the doctor suspects brain damage

And I had to pay for the Asperger's diagnosis

2004 San Diego $500

Private practice psychiatrist

I've had EKGs too because of my arrhythmia problem. Which turned out to be benign.

I had MRI to make sure my motor skills disability was due to brain wiring rather than brain damage.

I have no trouble believing that whatsoever. What kraftiekortie said is quite accurate in how people perceive you. And I am sure you hear it all the time, because it's true.

If you weren’t so arrogant, I feel like people would embrace how you raise your kids.

It’s a nice, holistic approach.

But the superiority thing has just got to go. Who died and made you the Almighty Poobah?

It’s just not nice to be rude to people. People respond more to respectful discourse.

Just my opinion here, but I think that might go into the thought that autism is not one thing, but an umbrella term for many conditions with similar symptoms.



No, I would draw the conclusion that either the child was always autistic but not diagnosed, or the child ended up with a brain injury that was misdiagnosed as autism.

Autism just has so many causes.

This reminds me, in a way, of the “gut dysbiosis” theory.....an all-encompassing potential “treatment” for autism.

A possible panacea....that doesn’t take into account the complexity of autism.

I'm wondering if this explains the overfiring happening in Temple Grandin's cortex when compared to a control brain under MRI?.

The problem I have observed in the literature is the lack of consistency preventing either MRI or EEG being diagnostic (EEG is only used to predict risk of neural discharge in epileptics but even here it's not really that reliable).

Just playing devils advocate here...Temple has severe comorbid anxiety which she manages with medication. Is it not possible the act of putting her in an MRI might trigger an episode of neural discharge like somebody with epilepsy due to her heightened hyper vigilance

I enjoy your posts and like your perspective.
It would be helpful when people stop interrupting expertise with their enthusiasm in life but that's just not going to happen...

Autism is simply behavioral traits.

An autism diagnosis doesn't require one to to be born with these behavior traits.

Likely, many brain injuries produce autistic behaviors (autism).

@Skilpadde: Agreed and seconded. I'm of the same opinion.




@LoveNotHate: Cool chart, thanks for posting.

For me, living with autism is no trouble.

Not socializing? Not really a problem.
Not good at communicating? Not really a problem.

However, living with underlying brain damage is hard every day.

It makes me look forward to being dead.