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05 Aug 2009, 6:24 pm

I think this, just like other traits it's going to differ in varying degrees between all of us with autism. For me my timing is off with conversations, playing an instrument is hard for me too, etc. But on the other hand if I set my alarm clock I will wake up ten seconds before it goes off - so part of my mind knows what time it is even when I'm asleep. If this study is true maybe we all have separate internal clocks for many different things and only some of them are effected (or defected)?



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05 Aug 2009, 6:38 pm

Tock tick or tick tock topic

I suppose the AS internal clock is Tocking instead of Ticking. Stimming instead of smiling.

We do learn at different rates and times. I might even say AS has more patience, though I am sure there are many go-go types who would vehemently disagree.

I have never heard of a clock gene. I would like to know how it works. Stay turned for part tow, coming soon (timing is everything!).


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05 Aug 2009, 10:59 pm

arielhawksquill wrote:
I have that choppy speech thing. A friend once mentioned that I sounded like William Shatner with lot of....dramatic....pauses.

I've always thought that stimming works by creating a sort of external rhythm (especially rocking) that we use to regulate our internal lack of it when everything gets too chaotic.


Stimming is usually done by those lacking a sense, whether that be deafness, blindness. Autism does the same because... well, we are trying to fill in a gap of sense, not because we are simulating something.


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