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MY BRAIN

I like my brain.
And my brain likes me.
We like to play together
Just him and me.

He's the one who tells me
What it is I ought to do.
And since he's very smart
I accept without ado.

He shows me where
I left my shoes.
He shows me where
I grow my toes.

He always knows
When I need
To blow my nose.

So when I'm told
That my brain
Is a little (shall we say)
strange,

I get somewhat upset until
I realize
That his ganglia are many
and of miniature size,

Which allows me to think
differently
and see the world
unevidently

Compared to others.
So I'm so happy that
I'm friends with my brain who lives
above my neck (and under my hat).

THE END

Last edited by JSBACHlover on 09 Mar 2014, 5:34 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I love that! What does see the world unevidently mean though?

To see the world unconventionally - not as it is evident to others.

Aha, makes sense!

We should be happy with the brains God gave us. They're unusual brains and so we get to see the world in strange ways, which is fun.

Vicky-

I'm sorry, but we don't live in the world MisterRogers tried to make us believe in. "Everybody's fancy, everybody's fine. Your body's fancy, and so is mine."

Uh, no.

Your position is like a person who needs glasses (or is even legally blind) insisting they don't want to wear the glasses or be told they need training on how to get around now that they can't see.

An autistic brain does NOT work like the average brain does, and it causes trouble, either minor or major.

Sure, some elements of autism, if present to a certain degree, produce creative people who add to the human experience. Thing is, having arms makes it possible to do things too, but if you have a person born with excess limbs, possibly ones they can't even control properly, you're not talking about improvement.

The excess number of brain cells and mis-wired connections spoken of in that video can cause real problems. (Like sensory input problems, because the brain is getting sensory info with the "volume" cranked up, and none of it's being fed into the brain thru normal channels, but is coming in jumbled.)

There are real differences in an autistic brain, and that's a simple fact.

Otherwise, there'd be no such thing as autism.

Now, if you want to only consider HFA people with "gifts" and ignore other autistics, okay, but even then, the "gifts" are there for a reason...they come from how the brain works, and that "gifted" brain must be different, or there'd be no "gifts".

OMG, people with autism are not superior in some way it turns out, some of us diagnosed with this 'disorder' even have impairments related to it(who would have ever possibly thought of that?) Clearly people with AS are so high functioning they don't have impairments but still want to be considered autistic...I am very confused when did this become an elitist club for book smart people with autism, rather than a more or less support site for people on the spectrum?

I don't think so. Nobody knows what causes autism exactly. Here's some possible causes: http://www.autism-world.com/index.php/2 ... of-autism/

I think that all of us are probably wired a bit differently but with some commonalities to explain the universal prolems with social communication and preoccupation with details. I'd love to have an MRI to get a look at what is going on. Meanwhile I try to evaluate which areas are messed up through behavioral evidence. I can believe the prefrontal cortex to be commonly involved. I was trying some activities on the show Brain Games last week and was about brought to tears by the activities that they said relied on prefrontal cortex processing. I was way too slow, but tended to do better than the NTs on the show on tasks requiring attention to detail. I have noticed that there seems to be a deficiency in left-brain right-brain communication, which supports that the other common villain, the corpus callosum is involved. My anxiety can get totally out of control if I miss a dose of medication, which supports an abnormality of the amygdala. I also have major depression, which supports disorder of the other emotional centers of the brain and I'm prone to rigid thinking like many other autistics. However, differing genetic and environmental factors, will cause differences in out exact wiring among all of us amidst the commonalities. For instance, we have a variety of comorbids -- I have Goldenhars as a comorbid and causative influence, which few others on here have, but unlike many, I'm not OCD, ADHD, or Bipolar.

Dr. Frankenstein: Now... that brain that you gave me... was it Hans Delbruck's?
Igor: [Crosses arms] No.
Dr. Frankenstein: [Holds up hand] Ah. Good. Uh... would you mind telling me... whose brain... I did put in?
Igor: And you won't be angry?
Dr. Frankenstein: I will not be angry.
Igor: [Shrugs] Abby...someone.
Dr. Frankenstein: Abby someone? Abby who?
Igor: Abby Normal.
Dr. Frankenstein: [takes a deep breath] Abby Normal?
Igor: I'm almost sure that was the name. [He and Dr. Frankenstein laugh]
Dr. Frankenstein: Are you saying... [Stands] that I put an abnormal brain... [Puts hand on Igor's hump] into a 7 and a half foot long... 54- inch wide... [Grabs Igor by throat] GORILLA?!?!?! [Strangling Igor] IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE TELLING ME!?!

Hey don't make fun of where my brain came from!