Autism: Looking at the World Differently [Must Read]

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Let me preface this by saying I just joined. So correct me if I'm wrong.

From what i understand...

1. Wrongplanet is designed to be a place where individuals with ASD can share their experiences in a world that does not understand them. Thus the name. What you put forth was a treatise of your ideas about autism, not your experiences relating to it.

2. Netiquette: be short and sweet
There is a reason that Twitter is so popular. You boil the issue down to the bare essentials so that you save time writing, your audience saves time reading, and your audience is not bored. You failed at all three.

Thank you very much for the welcoming me. I truly appreciate it.
Thank you for the advice.
Your signature has a ironic paradoxical truth to it and it makes me ponder deeply what would happen if those roles where reversed or switched around.

Has anyone seen Percy Jackson and the Olympians notice how when Percy( The main Character ) he tries to fit in with normal people he has dyslexia trouble interacting with his peers and a inability to stay focused in class and notice the number of times he had to switched schools for behavioral issues and the list goes on but as soon as he see Greek mythology or anything to do with it he fits in and even excels.Why? simple his brain was wired for Greek mythology ( This was actually said in the movie ) just think about it and tell me what you think i like suggestions.

PS, maybe that will be a more simple way of introducing what i am trying to say let me know if i am wrong.

If you can't summarize, we really can't blame you for it... it's not like it isn't an important skill to learn; but I'm not in the habit of getting on people's cases for that sort of thing. At worst I'll go tl;dr and skip the post.

I really tried to read the whole thing, but I couldn't.

This sounded like a mix between obvious truisms (the brain is plastic and wired by both social experience and perception) and stuff that really isn't scientific at all (e.g., Freud). I can't tell if I'm missing something because of the wordy nature of the post or if this really makes no sense. Tolu, could you do a 1-paragraph summary of the main point here, please?

Wow,
Me summarizing this idea is hard especially when you consider that this is a small percentage of my work but here i go
please don't blame as i find it hard to summarize my idea i will only summarize a small portion.

1. Something happened to your thought process as a child no even younger as a infant that caused an error.

2.You brain had different ways of handling the situation and the result it chose it what you have now.

3. That's why there are different types of autistic people(ASD) and that's why the intensity differs between people.

EX.
John was a normal infant but at age 30 months he was noted to abruptly exhibit a period of marked behavioral regression shortly after the birth of a sibling. You see he is having a conflict in his mind he is experiencing something his brain cant handle or just doesn’t understand the reason this happens, at such an age his foundation of his mind isn’t developed and the path it chose what shut down some processes it handles.

the result of this is what is known as Childhood Disintegrative Disorder(CDD)

so looking back

1. everything was normal(he was a normal infant growing)

2. something that didn't make sense happened(new baby in the family)-sensory experience

3. His brain didn't have a solid foundation so it started to rewire it self to understand the problem(behavioral regression)

4. Unfortunately the end result was (CDD)(Childhood Disintegrative Disorder)(brain has rewired its self and physical change has occurred)

I don't know if that helped anyone, this is something i put together rather quickly after looking at the comments.

Please let me know if i helped or if this is still jargon to you

Save that neuroplasticity isn't quite that extreme - it's not like you're born with a head full of Silly Putty, and it just imprints the newspaper when you take it out. (And brains don't bounce as well...)

And Freud, while a pioneer in the field of psychoanalysis, was also a toilet-obsessed drug addict, whose odd ideas of how the brain works are more reflective of his own psychological disorders than anything realistic.

No, we were born with a set of genes that told the proteins in our brains to fold differently than the standard pattern, resulting in a different neural structure. Dance about it as you will, that's the gist of the situation, or at least that's what several years of research into the available data tells me. (Oddly enough, in a number of cases [see this Icelandic study, for instance, referencing the sixteenth chromosome pair], the genetic abnormalities seem similar to those that can result in a tendency toward schizophrenia.)

Ah,
The sweet smell of a convincing and factual based evidence supporting answer.

You don't know what you have done to support me by providing me with such a answer i wish i could sit you down near me and talk vigorously over the issue.

Let me start of saying Neuroplasticity is One of the major problems it actually quite extreme that would explain why there is such a thing as traumatic brain injury and recovery afterwords phantom limb expression after your arm has recently been amputated.

Why is it that people who think slightly different from each other, MRI scans range from quite different to varied a little

Why is it that some people who came out of a accident that involved injury to the head suddenly develop abilities they never had before

Why is it that a blinds person can hear from a farther distance than a normal person can .(Read sensory substitutions)

I really would love to post links but i cant the forum rules just wont allow me.

Sigmund Freud,

How should i start off lets say for example we never knew he did drugs but thought he was the most dedicated man alive to research and testing of his theories we would all nod our heads and argue with him to a lesser degree but since he did drugs it is immediately thought that his information is flawed. No, that is wrong what the cocaine did to him was let him see a Different side of the story. His thoughts where changed up no longer under the guidelines of a Neurotypical Sensory experience that a NeuroTypical individual will refer to when solving a problem.

If you researched carefully the number of inventions that have been found out by mistake or while a person was on drugs is numerous.

Did you know that every single thing that was said in that article just supported my theory by ten no one hundred fold thanks as i try and break it down for the public to digest.

Strictly speaking, a theory is a hypothesis which has been shown to be currently unfalsifiable, what you are describing is a hypothesis, which most definitely can be falsified.

Just a personal quibble there... as for Freud, never heard of him, he do anything worth knowing about?

Don't you every think as to why

Well, I'm a rational empiricist, with a strong mathematical dispostion.

I don't see anything besides enunciating the ideas of id, ego, and super-ego as important of Freud's work.

He made a lot of vague statements, some which I can quite certainly say did not hold true in my case, as the Oedipus obsession is something HE focused on, not a universal aspect of development.

I never cared to study psychology though, I'm quite capable of self-study to determine the workings of my brain as is.

As far as I can tell from your convoluted post, you are essentially saying that ASD is caused by early sensory experiences in infancy. That sounds an awful lot like the "refrigerator mother" theory which caused so much pain to individuals with autism and their families, and which has been rightly and thoroughly discredited. There is simply no current scientific date that supports that particular point of view. How would your theory explain why autism runs so strongly in families?

I applaud the members of WP for responding to this post with such a razor-sharp BS detector.

I was going to add an explanation of why most of Freud's psychological theories have been discredited, and are still read today only as philosophy rather than science, but I'm too weary... Please don't bother to respond.

Ok I just read the entire thing and I'm reluctant to comment because of all the negative feedback. Not being one to follow the crowd, I'm going to say I found nothing wrong with someone trying to hypothesise about autism. From what I gathered, correct me if I'm wrong is:

A. You think most of our traits are all caused by an increased sensory sensitivity. Everything boils down to that from infancy our sensitivity to the world around us affected how our brain developed.

B. Savants are highly skilled in one area due to their ability to sheild themselves from the world and their sensitivities.

I know there were probably more points, but I already forgot because it was little long and boring. I have to say I don't know what I'm talking about enough to agree or disagree, but I could see A being possible. I don't really know exactly how B would work though.

commonly (smallish sample size),
men are unaware that they are consciously resaoning using emotions bound to the concepts that form memories. (I can produce a test to demonstrate this).

They will say they make choices (a very emotive concept), but at the same time act and tell you they are being logical.

commonly (I've found more variation in women questioning directly, though that may be just because the group of people I know is more ASD biased), women are aware that they are thinking emotionally, and will say they think both logically and emotionally, sometimes this is more mix and match sometimes they will say they separate the process and reason something logically and emotionally (often calling it more spiritually) and then draw conclusion on ballence.

This is separate from general empathy.

I've found women who mix more 'masculine, power orientated), women who separate more caring and also with more ASD traits.

My girlfriend separates but is somewhat on a more extreme level and is more or less unaware, she knows she's flipped out but can't quite grasp it.

emotional perception is generally subconcious type of sensory perception, but it involves pattern matching witch is a level above what I would describe as normal sensory perception such as hunger. sight also uses pattern matching, e.g. distinguishing objects (the shape of not the object from memory), emotion is generally a level deeper than this.