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    Autistic Opinion - Greta Thunberg ~ Autistamatic

    Ms. Thunberg does not have a "stance" on human-caused climate change; Ms. Thunberg agrees with the evidence.
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    question for those with trouble with being distracted

    Argh. The longer the delay in treatment, the more intervention may be required later. You and your grandson are "lucky" that modern pharmacology is much better when I attended school (where I was constantly punished for behavior I could not control). Perhaps one of his teachers could sit down...
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    How many wake up hearing music in their head and lots of racing thoughts?

    Gosh, I do not know how common this is among autistic people so of course I cannot answer to that. I often wake up with hyper-complex symphonies in my head. They are chiefly bluegrass (specifically what is called "newgrass" in the music category), with pedal steel, lap steel, mandolins...
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    Do you watch or download Porn online?

    Alas, I have no idea what "pornography" is, so I cannot say if I see it or not--- let alone watch it. Before one can answer the question, one must define what "porn" is: good luck on that: after 500 years of trying to regulate "porn," humanity is still not anywhere closer to knowing what "porn"...
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    Participate in a Study on Dissociation in Autism Spectrum Disorders

    From the time I was around 9 years old until about 29 years old I had horrifying hypopompic and hypnogogic disassociated events nightly---- so much so that I avoided sleep. Correlating disassociation to autism had not occurred to me before.
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    There is help for ASD and great possibility for a joyful and purposeful life!

    This is spam. Also, I think these people are not to be trusted.
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    Australian Biotech Company Wants to Treat Autism Symptoms With Cannabis

    Good gods! Please do not give young people cannabis! THC appears to inhibit some brain neural network pathways in specific regions of the developing (i.e., young) brain. While giving cannabis to young autistic people is probably good for the care-givers of autistic people, one must think of the...
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    How do I sleep tonight? Mensa IQ test.

    MIT and Harvard Business school reported on their study of success in the USA. Both institutions noted that intelligence, hard work, and perseverance have little to do with success. They noted that success is overwhelmingly a matter of luck.
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    How do I sleep tonight? Mensa IQ test.

    Mensa once promoted astrology on their web site. That told me enough about them to ignore the silly cult. On the standard 200 question IQ instrument I scored 147. On the WordSum instrument I scored 136. I would pay good money to be average, as living with hyper-analytical thinking is a curse...
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    Has anyone experimented with nutrition to help alleviate autistic challenges?

    "Upset?" Good gods that's hilarious!
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    research study situation inquiry

    Surely the researchers said your identity will remain anonymous, yes?
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    Phtalates in plastic products cause Autism

    Excellent, and thank you. Metabolites should have been tested in the mothers of autistic test subjects, as well as in the test subjects' non-autistic peers in the same geographic areas.
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    Phtalates in plastic products cause Autism

    No proper control group(s), therefore *DISMISSED!* To link the chemical with autism, or dismiss the hypothesis, the authors should have performed a much wider demographic / geographic survey, then studied non-autistic people in those regions and age groups and social-economic demographics...
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    Can Asperger’s be diagnosed by a neurologist using an EEG?

    Indeed, researchers have found nothing (so-to-speak) because the genes that cause autism are widely present in all apes, and phenotipically expressed epigenetically. One must examine the brain itself after death, sliced and diced and microscopically as well as macroscopically, to see how...
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    Can Asperger’s be diagnosed by a neurologist using an EEG?

    No.
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