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MissPickwickian wrote:

natty,

I wish I knew. High, Low, Middle, what day of the week, and what subject.

My lacks, can't dance, and have nothing for music, can't draw, but do, and never seem to get any better. I do not remember faces, I avoid interacting with people other than when I am running an act, which I do well for a while.

My good points are I relate to machines. I relate to people by speaking on behalf of machines.

I see structures, systems, how things fit together. I have a great memory, but not for some ordinary tasks.

I got through life because I could fix things, and some of them were very expensive things. My dancing was with a VW bug, and after a day, it was worth $1000 more than I had in it. That was a month's pay for most.

When computers came along, they were just a machine to me. I saw what they could do, and went into digital printing. I publish books, and do fine art printing.

Machines network, and my relationship with other people is through machines, our networks connect.

I never did understand people. So I became a historian, Now I know all about them, and do not understand them, but I do write books.

Applied memory, machines, systems, and by the tests around here, Low Functioning Autistic. I have been called worse.

I am very well read. Talented in Science and Mechanics, and as I have such a limited range, I have a very high functional IQ in a few things. I am not a savant, I worked hard to learn, and learn, and learn, till I ran out of things to learn, then created new knowledge, and patented it.

That brought out a bigger wave of thieves than the ones who stole my tools many times. So I stopped patenting and hold the rest as secrets.

It does not take much to be a thief, so my books, printing, are much too complex to steal. People will steal the product of your labor, but never the labor part.

So now I live in isolation, connecting only with people for a purpose.

The web, and Wrong Planet, have given me a worldwide market, and a community.

I survive, and have a community.

I agree with your concept of pan autism. I see no differance across the spectrum. The traits we have in common over rule our differances, and do set us apart.

I think that we could each decide for ourselves, whether we want a cure, or not.

Genetics prolly plays a big role in it since I have a cousin with autism , a dad and sister with ADD, and a history of autistic disorders on my mom's side of the family. However, I also find the studies on the effects of multple vaccinations given to all infants in a very short period of time and how such a strain on the body of the child can cause, or at least worsen a child's autistic symtoms... some studies suggest that auties don't get rid of mercury from their systems as effectively as normal people or even aspies (aspies process mercury normally) and that the mercury content in the vaccines that is harmless to normal children builds up in the system of auties and can cause or worsen symptoms. I don't want a cure, simply because I have learned to cope with the difficulties that asperger's causes me and I enjoy the unique strengths that come with it. I just see it as being wired differently our brains and nervous systems just function differently than the majority of the population.

If anybody pushed the cure on me, I'll tell them where to put it.

Back in the days when autism was discovered, there was a theory that described the role of "refrigerator mothers".

It referred to a mother/primary caregiver who is not able to connect emotionally with the baby. At age two yrs humans detach from the mother and become aware of The Self (their own identity). This doesn't happen with highly sensitive people, they experience the world as such a harsh environment, that they turn inwards (become frozen) and are reliant on the mother for basic needs (disabled) for the rest of their lives. They become low functioning autistic.

I read up on it because my father's sister is l-f autistic and he is AS. My grandmother fits the profile: rigid, emotionally cold and clueless (she was prob also on the spectrum, which ties in with the genetic link). There seem to be a return to this theory as far as pinpointing causes are concerned. I think that many times a gut feeling is the best to persue.

However, money is not being made available for these studies in the US because, as in every respected society, no-one wants to blame the parents.