I know I have not been here for a while, but about two years ago, I cured myself ... sort of.
What I am NOT going to do is explain how to cure yourself. Part of the reason is that you need to really understand what is going on in your brain in order to cure yourself.
Part is that I am unsure if curing yourself is a good or a bad thing.
Part is because I refuse to allow anyone to push me around - and have no intention of pushing others around.
Solutions will come later ... maybe.
Anyway, here is a new definition of ASD for you to consider.
If any of you are going to any expert ... print this out, plonk it on the desk of your expert at the end of your visit - and ask for another appointment when he has worked out the implications.
Experts in psychology looked at the many variations of the human experience and identified a problem. They examined it, categorized it, defined the parameters, worked out the lacks people with this condition have ... and ways to measure it.
I will add they did a BRILLIANT job (ergo my request to drop this on the experts desk ... if they did a brilliant job before - how much MORE will they do when they know a bit more?)
None the less, the definition we have is summed up succinctly as
Current definition speaks about what we cannot do, eye contact, social skills and so on.
But along with this - there is this little tit bit - we think differently, and in many ways - brilliantly.
So our current definition only covers one part of the problem.
Let us make the new definition in this way ...
Autism is an exciting development which uses a special part of the brain and thinks in a concise way - but alas, this is done at the cost of eye contact, social skills etc.
Good - but not good enough. So let us go further.
Is this "new thinking area" a new mutation? A new part of the brain? Obviously not.
So we can say it is a part of the brain EVERYONE HAS - but the Autistic person is in there all the time. We are stuck there so to speak.
Applying this, our definition now reads
Autism is an exciting development which traps people into a specialized part of the brain - a part that everyone has - which allows us to think in a very concise way, - but alas, this is done at the cost of eye contact, social skills etc.
Again - STILL not good enough.
Both the specialised part of the brain AND the loss of eye contact etc are related. It is as though one part is switched on - and the other part is switched off.
Applying this once more - the definition now reads
Autism is an exciting development which traps people into a specialized part of the brain - a part that everyone has - which allows us to think in a very concise way, - but going into this part of the brain switches off the normal social part of the brain - so this is done at the cost of eye contact, social skills etc.
The second key is this ABC article. http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/ ... 582581.htm
As I have lived through it - I can say the article is incorrect in many ways - not the SCIENCE but the interpretation. But that is not so important - we have a difference in the brain thinking - and a brain switch.
There you have ... a definition of Autism
And a clinical description of the specific part of the brain effected.
Plus my own unverified claim that I had the condition and I no longer have it.
That this definition will ALLOW a cure is ... the real key.
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Consider the implications.
1) Under the first definition - we "lack" ... which implies anyone who has it would desire to get out of the condition.
Would you like to be "Normal" or do your LIKE thinking differently?
I sure like to think differently and I am able to do so still. In fact I CHOOSE to do so most of the time.
I won the ability with hard work and many tears - and I can say it is GOOD despite the price I paid to get it. mind you, I also like the fact that I can go out and socialize - to a degree of course.
I am not normal. I lack experience and I do have other brain problems. But it is nice to go out now and again.
Under the second definition - this good part of being ASD is taken out, examined and applauded.
As it should be - it is a good thing.
You can see why I am not so keen on "curing everyone!"
2) because it is a trapping in the brain, it is not a genetic thing or an environmental thing either. You cannot train a person out of it. In fact it is not even a cognitive problem! it is not a psychological problem.
let the experts chew over THAT one. it explains why identical twins only have a 77% correlation between genetics and ASD.
But there is no clue to the solution here. As I said, that HAS to come later.
3) You might notice that this new definition does NOT change anything we know or understand about ASD. It gives a context as to how the subject is thought about - and how we interpret things.
But it does not change any of the data, or any of the expertise that people have.
This is why I am delighted for you to give it to the experts. I have great faith in them.
4) The idea that "we are on a spectrum" is false. What happens is that many people with a birth defect find this "special area of the brain" and use it. The birth defect could be physical, or in the brain.
We do so because as babies, we try to use the brain normally and fail. Sometimes for physical reasons, sometimes for brain development reasons. This is a possible out ... an escape mechanism which babies might (or might not) discover for themselves.
In my case - there were a set of brain conditions and also a physical reason - plus later on - left eyed - right brain syndrome.
5) There are a large number of people who find this same "part of the brain" but after the eye contact and rudimentary social skills have begun. These are not covered in the current definition. Because of "when a baby" learns such social skills is gender dependent - boys versus girls ... we have a time table for the age where this occurs.
it also explains why girl babies are difficult to diagnose - even if they have the same condition.
I have met people with what I have to call advanced ASD who struggle to live in a complex world. Not only not diagnosed but - according to the definition - not having the condition. They have some of the social skills (not all) and avoid a lot of the "signs" of ASD.
Lots and lots of stuff.
Any expert will laugh their heads off when they get over the shock - take up the ideas - see that they make sense ... and then ... suddenly realize the many things I have left out.
Once again - I LOVE experts.
Anyway, have fun.
This only changes ... how you think about yourself, not who you are.
Oh ... and if you are interested, much of the way I have learned to think about myself "post ASD" has come from PTSD sufferers. They are also trapped in the same brain state. Except they enter by adrenaline and/or trauma.
We are not alone.
It is, after all, a normal part of the brain.
And lots of people use it - usually for short periods of time.
27 Apr 2016, 7:03 pm
