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"Lay(man) Summary
Autistic adults reported having special interests in a range of topics, including computers, music, autism, nature and gardening. Special interests were associated with a number of positive outcomes for autistic adults. They were also related to subjective wellbeing and satisfaction across specific life domains including social contact and leisure. Very high intensity of engagement with special interests was related to lower levels of wellbeing. This highlights the important role that special interests play in the lives of autistic adults."
There is Limited Research on How "Special Interests" Impact the Actual Well Being of Persons on the Autism Spectrum;
However, the "Lay Summary" Above Does Indicate, Unless the Special Interests Are Extreme, They Are Generally Related
To Enhanced Well Being. There is Nothing Derogatory By Itself, Alone, For the Use of the Adjective 'Special' With Interests
As That is Precisely What It is;
Focus on One Task of Narrow
Interest; And Perhaps Focus
On Other Interests As Well As It's True
i've Had Many Special Interests That i Have
Focused on in FLoW On One Task; As Of Course, Generally Speaking,
Humans Are Evolved to Focus on What One Task Brings for Attention
Span For Success Over Distractions That Yes Will Surely Lead to Hunters
Not Capturing Prey or Being Eaten By Predators on the Horizon They Miss;
Not Unlike Using A Smart Phone in a Car Below And Missing An Oncoming Car Above;
Sadly, Resulting in A Crash And Potentially Ultimate Death of Self And Others of Course too;
Yes, It's True As Many Folks Have Done when they come to 'This Site' Newly Diagnosed With
Autism or Suspecting the Such, They May Even Become Autodidact Subject Matter Experts
On The Condition
Of the Condition They
Are Either Diagnosed With
or Suspect They Have Now;
Let's Face it, If Not For Folks Willing to
Use All Their Focus on A Narrow Speciality of Interest;
We Wouldn't Likely Have Dentists, Or Any Other Occupation;
Yes That Requires Intense Focus on A Narrow Area Now of Interests,
Day in And Day Out; Yet An Art in Flow, Where the Rewards Are Often
Intrinsic in Autotelic Way in Addition to the Natural Rewards Altruistically
Gained Within By Helping Others; And or of Course, Getting Paid to Pay For A Living Real too...
In The Case Of the Label of the Condition of Autism; And Yes, The Way it is Behaviorally Diagnosed
As A Social Reciprocal Communication Functional Disability, When Special Interests Become too Narrow And
Intensely Focused; When They Interfere With What is Required For Focus to Maintain Interpersonal Relationships
And Success on the Job Front of Course to Make a Living; And Preparatory Skills Gained in Schools As Such,
Then The Special Interest May Be Considered A Functional Disability And Part of the Overall Behavioral
Diagnosed Condition in Different Severity Levels of Autism. Interestingly, Some Autistic Folks Learn
To Adapt Well to the Overall Reciprocal Social Communication Deficits Associated With Autism
in Both Verbal and Non-Verbal Ways As They Continue Growing Older Yet They May Of Course
Yes Retain Special Interests in Repetitive Narrow Focused Ways That Still Interfere With
Work and Interpersonal Relationships; Like When my Wife Overhears me Talking About
my Special Interests With Other Folks Most Everywhere i Go And She Gets What She Calls
Is A Specific Malady Associated With me That She Has A Special Term for Called a 'Fredache;'
Yes, as i've Been Known Even Here to Repeat Stuff About my Special Interests; Such As After i Suffered
A Major Autism Burn-Out Resulting in 19 Medical Disorders at Age 47, including the Worst Pain Known to
Humankind, Type Two Trigeminal Neuralgia, Shut-in my Bedroom For 66 Months With All of Those Disorders
in a Synergy of Life Threat As 'Type Two Trigeminal Neuralgia' Is Actually Assessed As the Worst Pain Known to
Humankind, Casually Medically Referred to in the Medical Field as the Suicide Disease, And Actually Assessed Yes
Even Worse than The Real Torture of Crucifixion that in my Case Was no 3 Hour to 3 Day Ordeal; True, Like a Dentist
Drill in my Right Eye and Ear, No Drug Would Touch, From Wake to Sleep For 66 Months Shut-in my Bedroom Along
With The Synergy of Life Threat of the Other 18 Mostly Stress Related Disorders, From 11 Years of Chronic to
Acute Work Related Stress That All Actually Started Not Speaking Until 4, Adapting to School That Way,
Stuttering my Way Along, Bullied For Being Assessed as Weakest And Strangest Fish in the Aquarium;
Yep, Tattered Fins Along the Way Yet Still Earning 3 Degrees at Once With No Real Ability to Share
What i Learned, Handing Out Shoes After Staying Close to the Top of my Class for 19 Years of
School in Tandem With Work Starting at Age 16 For 33 Years for Pay, Spending the Last
Year and a Half on Annual And Sick Leave as Not only A Star Student Yet the One
Everyone Went to For Help as That Bowling Center Job Was A Federal Navy Civilian
Job That Eventually Doubled in Pay And Doubled Again in Pay the Lasts 5 Years,
And 5 Job Changes and Promotions That At Least Let me Retire Early Disabled
At the Pay Grade Equivalent of A Marine Major; And During the Hell of that Pain and
Numb of Not Even Remembering the Feeling of A Smile During That 66 Months Shut-in
my Bedroom; i Never Knew if i could make it one more Second With the Suicide Disease As
When You Are Really in HeLL ON EartH Within, the Thought of Death is Truly Heaven in Hell;
So i Ventured onto the 'Wrong Planet' on Thanks Giving Day of 2010, And With the Screen Turned
All the Way Down in Brightness to Try to Tolerate the Dentist Drill in my Right Eye and Ear of Pain
Without Real Effective Use of Eyes or Ears Almost At all For the First 33 Months of that Suicide Disease Pain And
Numb; Every Word i Wrote Here Was A Mountain of Pain Yet At Least A Last Gasp Effort to Stay Alive until Eventually
Millions of Words Changed into Free Verse Poetry After The Pain Went Away Standing on a Beach on July 19th, 2013,
Feeling And Sensing One With Sugar White Sands, Emerald Green Gulf Waves, Sea Oats Swaying in the Breeze, And
Sea Gull Wings Spiraling Around the Sun; Yes, me too Unifying With All in All Away From Pain and Numb As those
Spiraling Wings Around the Sun Transforming Until Presently Now with 17,844 Miles of Public Dance in 113 Months
After That Yes Along With 11.3 MiLLioN Words of Free Verse Poetry in the "SonG oF mY SoUL;" Yes, Literally
The Longest EPiC Long Form Poem in the History of Humankind as i Wasn't Interested in Painting the
Sistine Chapel New or the Such of that at All Yet Don't Take me too Serious As That is Dry Humor Yet
My Special Interests Are TRULY VERY REAL AND EMPIRICALLY MEASURABLE like the 61 Thousand Words
i Just Wrote on Page 63 in the Solo Thread i Name, "Depth of The Story" Here on the Wrong Planet
That Comprises 2.3 MiLLioN Words Plus Now in A Bit Over 29 Months of Effort For What i
Also Casually Describe as an 8th New Testament as There Have Been 7 Other Subchapters
Like that in "SonG oF mY SoUL" Too; Yes, Per the Entire 113 Month Effort That is Closing
in on 114 Months of Effort on February 18th, As the Public Dance Will Soon Enough Come
to Be 18,000 Miles of Effort in the Same 114 Months Of Effort too; And This Is What my Wife
Has to Hear Over
And Over Again;
Hehe, Be Thankful
You Only Have to Read it once;
If You Get Past the First Few Sentences HAha...
As Yes For Real, i Talked to An Insurance Agent For Geico
About Updating the Mileage on my Car Yesterday; And Yes
She Got To Hear This Entire Story and She Even Seemed
To Be Very Inspired; Yet Not so Much, my Wife in the Other
Room, As She's Heard IT Way too many instances to be inspired beyond
A Fredache For
Real; Anyway,
Yes That's Part of Why i Write Song of
Poetry God Yes Free Verse FLoWinG ALong
With Contemplative Giving Sharing Caring
Healing Meditating Dance In Public True It
IS ALL Silent Enough to Stay Married, Hehe;
Meh, Some Folks Think i am Special in a Good
Way and a Bad Way too; i Also Leg Press 1540 Pounds,
12 Reps, Just Warming Up at the Military Gym Close to 63
Years of Age Still Coming This Year on June The 6th; i Still Get
Retiree Privileges to Use The Gym And that Helps With the Nude Art i do
Too New Renaissance Style in the Flesh AS Such as Chiseling Stone Doesn't
Interest me in Terms of Doing 'Public Dancing David' That Way Hehe And Yes
True, When i Do it PG Style on Facebook and Other Avenues Even my Muslim Women
FRiEnDS Still Tolerate That Special Interest Enough to Stick Around me As GOD YES It's true
MY GREATEST SPECIAL
INTEREST IN MY ENTIRE
LoVE iN Peace IN LoVE YES
ALL NATURALLY AS SUCH IN
LIFE SINCE A CHILD WITH OPEN
ARMS FOR EVERYONE BEFORE i COULD
EVEN SPEAK AT AGE 4 IS BEING UNCONDITIONALLY
KIND TO EVERYONE i MEET AND GREET IN LIFE; AND IT'S
TRUE WITH ENOUGH KINDNESS AND GRIT OF WILL FOR SURVIVAL
ThERE IS NO MOUNTAIN OR VALLEY TOO LOW OR HIGH TO OVERCOME AGAIN.
YES, i AM F iN Special
As Do Note, Literally
THere is a F R E D iN FRiEnD, HeHe...
This Much i Will Promise You; i Am THE Only
One, Who Will Ever Be Qualified, to Play the Role
of me in the Reality Show That is Truly my Life for Real....
mY only wish(es) for you, whoever you are now is to develop a
special interest(s) much more awesome than mine for real too;
Yes, in any case, in my life, reality is much more interesting than
fiction in hell and heaven for ReaL ON EartH And Nope it's not Hard to prove, hehe,
As i Carry All the Empirical Evidence in A Container As Small As
A 6 Inch Screen;
True, Much Smaller
Than 'Forrest
Gump's Brief
Case on The Bus Stops of Life;'
Meanwhile, Just a Feather Becoming the Wind
Free, FRiEnDS With Gravity, Just Like This Not
Really Anymore
Specialer
or Freer Yes
Than the Wind...
SPiRiT oF Wind God
Yes, FRiEnDS Now With
Gravity, Naked Enough
Whole Complete New And So
What if i am too Big For Most
Folks to See It Doesn't Make the Wind
Any Less
Real to Be i Am
Yet it Will Be Nicer
If Technology Will
Catch Up to the Current
Blog Posts i Create That
Crash Even the NeWest iPhones...
Not Waiting For 'Moore's Law' to Catch up, HAha;
God Yes, Just Standing Upon the Bones, Flesh and Blood
of All the Others With Special Interests Who Come Before me...
This iS How the Mountain of Humanity Grows Through Every
Special Interest for Real...
Or Falls Valleys
Much Lower
DePENDinG
on What the
Special Interests
Are; Yes, Indeed,
Choose Your Special Interests Wisely Please...
Giving, Sharing, Caring, Healing With Most
Respect and Least Harm For the Win at Least for me
iN JoY oF LiGHT
iNHaLinG Peace
ExhalinG LoVE...
Aren't You Glad You
Were Not That Insurance
Lady on the Other Side of the Phone, HAha...
Yes, i Believe i Have Thoroughly Covered The
Condition of the Condition Presently For Now,
Comprehensively AS Such,
No Special Interest
Too Big or Small at
Least for me With SMiLes...
As a Cat 6 Hurricane Real
Of Human Creativity in
Special Interests Moves
on to Another Destination
of Living Free As Wind WiLL
NaTurAlly SPiRiT HeART
OPeN SoUL For Real BE
And
DO
With
SMiLes
And OPeN
Arms For ALL..
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aur.1931
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