• The autistic and autistic-related disorders discussion thread
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This is an attempt to create a safe haven for individuals preferably diagnosed with some sort of autistic related disorder. I do see the irony of it, since I'm constituting a situation where people with significantly lowered social functionality is supposed to be social. However, we exist, and every individual needs some form of social interaction in their day-to-day life, this by evolutionary design; Without neuronal empathetic functions being stimulated, serotonergic activity diminishes. Me myself were completely isolated once in my life for about a year. Just sitting by my computer, programming, studying things manically or just watching TV in an exhaustively depleting depression. I'm Bipolar as well if you haven't reached that conclusion already. Statistics say individuals with some form of autism have 67% more brain cells in their pre-frontalcortex, which is the area that defines communication skills. This means that the time it takes for the autistic brain to develop an appropriate and functional form of inter-personal communicative persona is more time consuming than those without autism. We call these people neurotypicals, it essentially means non-autistic. For neurotypicals, however considering this is very individual, they generally develop these skills at puberty while the autistic brain doesn't develop this area of the brain until the age of 28-30. This gives the neurotypical mind the impression that the autistic individual is rude or odd and uncomfortable when it in fact is simply a dysfunction in the social aspect of the brain. I will allow almost all forms of behaviors in here, since some autistic individuals have very under-developed Theory of mind. ToM (Theory of mind) is a concept concerning the autistic perception of the existence of the mind. For example: An autistic child were asked to show a painting to his parent, the child simply stretched his arms towards his parent without switching the side of the painting, the picture only visible to the child. Once while in the car with my dad, when I was a kid, I turned the mirror above the dashboard towards me attempting to correct the angle of the mirror, because I thought my dad couldn't see what was behind us when I couldn't. A little about myself: Being aware of the fact that I have more brain cells in my pre-frontalcortex, I try in my life to focus on emanating the beauty in writing, trying to stimulate the area as much as possible. Trying to convert conversational conventions into elucidations of sprouting trees into growths of semantic sprees. I will gladly (try to) answer any questions about Autism in general as well, so you neurotypicals are free to ask away.
Always struggled to understand autism fully. I know myself to channel any emotions etc into my video editing which depends on my mood, but I guess you could see it in a similar way to songwriters when they write their music using their moods and experiences. If anyone could link me to a documentary about autism, that'd be good to understand it a bit more.
I could recommend the documentary on Dr Temple Grandin, a famous autobiographer. [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=14&v=TWBo886FuQo[/url]
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