Hi,
having chatted and after reading more about ASD, I believe I now firmly fit at the acute end of the spectrum.
I've read a number of attempts at describing ASD in a more cognitive way and I believe that only one came close.
So I'm going to attempt to describe what I believe to be the cognative nature of the disorder and see how you fit.
For a person to experience an emotive response, and emotion must be triggered by some 'pattern', the pattern must fall above a certain threshold for that emotive response to be triggered.
This threashold is 'set' higher in people who have ASD than in neurotypicals, this can be demonstrated by people with ASD not reading more minor emotions in other people, such as minor body language. this is also reflected in a person with ASD not therefore developing minor body language of their own and as such have a blunt effect.
As a result of the trigger being set higher when a person with ASD has an emotional response, that response is a a much greater nature than that of a neurotypical.
This combines as such that someone with ASD develops a more 'logical' form of consciousness and cognitive function as a result in having a 'deficit' of minor emotion, and responses so excessive that they are more obviously somewhat false and as such don't form memory.
I get this to the extent that I only have usually very rare, increadably extream emotional responses e.g. sleeping for weeks or months, throwing up and incontanance for over a year, a wall of fear etc... mostly I experiance these none cognitive and as effects that are controlling me, so do not trigger binding onto concepts in my memory. As a result my cognative process is logical to the extent that I have never experienced free will and I have had some quite unusual closure experiences (temporal savauntism).
a large part of language is it's emotive content, and as such this lack of perception and experience of minor emotion leads to atypical language development.
Also having a clearer more logical contents of memory leads to significantly improved storage and recall of none emotive experience and data as well as other abilities (such as the ability to wipe memory)
How does that description fit?
I can quite possibly produce a fairly simple test with good cut and accuracy to determine if someone has this form of cognitive deficit and process or not.
23 Apr 2010, 9:30 pm
