Autistics have less brain activity?

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I heard something on the local news about how some EEG or other brain type test(I forget which test it was) on autistic kids shows they have less brain activity than normal people. They were saying how those findings could help dingoes autistics earlier. Lots on WP believe that autistics tend to have higher IQs & intelligence so it seems to me that austicis would have more brain activity instead of less. On a side not here~ All but one psych I saw & all the specialist & others I seen thought autistics had lower intelligence. They said I seem too intelligent to have anything on the autism spectrum. Wouldn't proving autistics have less brain activity say that autstics are less intelligent

Brain activity is a vague term. Could be that autistic brains are less active but more efficient. I'm not saying that is true, but such a generic term as "brain activity" doesn't convey much information.

I don't think that it's less activity, but less criss-crossing activity and more activity that is in the same areas.

Look up Temple Grandin's EEG pictures that shows how she has these thick bars of brain patterns on each hemisphere rather than the typical
chaotic (criss-crossing)patterns most people's brains show.

From what I understand it's not "less" activity but unique patterns of activity.

I think it has been found that autistic and AS brain have different amount of white and gray matter. I've been on the side of lower intelligence and I can tell the difference. My head wasn't ever swimming with this many thoughts and ideas.
So, this study might be pointed more towards the severe end of the spectrum. Yes, I know labels labels labels. I don't care. That's my opinion.

Even without brain EEG tests it is a common perception that neurotypicals can think faster and learn faster. Therefore autistic people are regarded by neurotypicals as boderline ret*ds and are discriminated against as far as educational and work training opportunites go. The computer industry makes the same mistake and markets computers based on processing speed and memory with no research going into artificial neural nets with intelligence based on the massive number of interconnections between each neuron. Big numbers sell computers rather than real artificial intelligence capability.

I have always argued that autistics are much more likely to operate at a genius level than are neurotypicals. But of course neurotypicals love to refute me claiming that they are faster learners and can memorize more information and do not forget as easy. Neurotypicals are especially infuriated when a person that they dismiss as a Forest Gump can outperform them intellectually so they assume that this person must have cheated.

Until these issues are resolved, and until more autistics are recognized as the geniuses that they are, autistics will continue to face incredible amounts of discrimination.

I think this sounds like BS propaganda.

I don't think we have less brain activity. It just seems that what we have is more focused.

You know, the local news dumbs down these things way too much. Brain activity is a very vague term. It could have something to do with the individual parts of the brain not being fully connected and/or integrated with each other. Not that I'd know. I'm not a neuroscientist.

I know that I have too much brain activity, and that's why I shut down. I don't know about everyone else, but it's too much thought, too much emotion, too much everything.

Maybe we are less neurotic, less thinking about social concerns.

Ducks are a very calm animal, they like to sit and think less than sparrows

I have always felt like I have more brain activity then most people.....I mean I do not respond slowly to things or have difficulties expressing things with words because I have less brain activity its more like there is so much already going on. I actually use cannabis to slow down my brain activity so I can relax a bit, otherwise its like I have lots of thoughts running through my mind all the time.

I have too much brain activity

Lesser brain activity in which hemisphere?? Certain hemispheres are smaller than the other and hence have lesser activity than the others... the hemisphere that is larger has more activity and hence you feel more enhanced in those particular activities that hemisphere deals with... Also some of the autistic brain is not wired up entirely and so that activity you can say is lost...

That news thing was really short & didn't say much more than what I said. I'm wondering & a little worried at how those findings might could change the way docs, psychs & general public perceive autism. People may assume autistics are less intelligent like the so-called experts in my area do. I really feel I'm less intelligent than most & probably have less brain activity as well. I have major problems focusing, paying attention & I zone-out a lot. My brain usually does not have many thoughts, ideas or anything unless I'm having an anxiety problem. I've had a couple EEGs, MRIs & a CAT-scan done at different points in my life & I 1ce heard that the results were abnormal but nothing was wrong; didn't tell me anything else. I would probably have better luck getting diagnosed from test like that than seeing psychs. Maybe in a few years I could