• Welcome to Autism Forums, a friendly forum to discuss Aspergers Syndrome, Autism, High Functioning Autism and related conditions.

    Your voice is missing! You will need to register to get access to the following site features:
    • Reply to discussions and create your own threads.
    • Our modern chat room. No add-ons or extensions required, just login and start chatting!
    • Private Member only forums for more serious discussions that you may wish to not have guests or search engines access to.
    • Your very own blog. Write about anything you like on your own individual blog.

    We hope to see you as a part of our community soon! Please also check us out @ https://www.twitter.com/aspiescentral

I'm Rahere

Rahere

Active Member
The original founded one of the oldest hospitals in the world, St Bartholomew's. As a Royal Jester, he was perforce one of the earliest psychologists, and a modest man.
For myself, I was caught up in the extension of IQ testing to kids in the 1960s, when what I was told about myself (next to nothing) caused more trouble than it was worth. That meant I was formally banned from testing again (it's in the maths).
Having lived a worthwhile life, capped by a decent share of the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize (if you look it up, I earned the privilege of actually making the join between Eaat and West Europe), Harley Street caught up with me, testing at Binet 153-4 aged 60. That implies mid-160s, and as I'm part of the reference group, one of those is me. When I looked, it was kind of thin at that level, just a couple on 163. I wonder who the first one was? It's corroborated by the data from the testing, my score when they checked the cohort proifile using a huge general knowledge test. I had a GK of a 14 year old, aged 8y6m. 14/8.5=165%, which was how they calculated it before IQ tests existed.
That's not who I am. I did find my ability to handle volumes of data (a superforecasting skill) stepped up into full seer chanelling by the Church of England, and that works by humility - I'm two degrees from Gandhi, and completed his work. I don't control it, but it did it's thing in full view of the test panel, so I'm officially hyperperceptive. That made the IQ panel MRI me, showing a normal brain lit up like a Christmas tree, so they followed up with a 24-hour EEG. It showed I only have vestigial beta-phase sleep, but my brain runs at 30% at rest and can go up to near 100% before overloading. Given a NeuroTypical has to cope with storing their experience until sleep, within their 10-11%, and becomes disordered after 2 days without sleep, they're using about 5% of their brain for cognition. I'm using up to 70%, so I can hold 14 times as much data as they can. It's not my problem, therefore, that they can't follow me. Take 2 identical computers, one with an operating system which can handle all it's memory, another with an older OS which can only handle 10%. Which needs the upgrade?
So, alongside the IQ, I'm diagnosed with high-performance Aspergers. Which nobody can tell me anything about, because the traits haven't been studied. But the way Peter Attwood argues, that because nobody knows anything about us, we can be dispensed with, we're just Aspies, and so have Autistic Spectrum Disorder. Suddenly, from being a baseline reference for intellect, I'm disordered by an intellectual inadequacy! It's academic laziness of the worst form, not being prepared to discover what you're talking about.
Logic is logic, and if an NT can't cope, that's his problem, not mine. My consideration of significant questions is necessarily nuanced by conflicting or even opposed viewpoints, which doesn't mean I'm indecisive: I was actually the finance supremo on the Crisis Management team of the European State Department.
Thus far, I'm describing someone who doesn't think differently, just more. But I mentioned an X-Skill, hyperperception. About 6 months, Donald Trump talked of genius being able to hack a cypher system. When it was first discussed in the 1980s, I tried it as a proof of concept, using what was to hand, a chunk of code from a banking system. It took me exactly one attempt to find the method and key: the only crib was an imcomplete idea of the content. It actually came to metamorphosis in blind-reading a text I knew nothing about. Or rather, calling on the all-seeing. This isn't normal, but sometimes happens when it matters. So don't ask me the lottery numvers, it doesn't work that way.
That, therefore, is me, and hints at my agenda. We're victims of huge discrimination and denial of our human rights: Dabrowsky's over-excitability hypothesis is simply a confession of his own dullness. We're frustrated at being forced to trogvalong at the speed of the slowest donkey in school, examined by teachers who weren't smart enough to achieve anything themselves, in an academic framework which is disconnected from the real world.
That might mean I'm upsetting a few applecarts. If so, good: you need a Nobel Prize to challenge me. Is that a denial of humility? Only because it speaks my truth, which is a higher value.
 
If so, good: you need a Nobel Prize to challenge me. Is that a denial of humility? Only because it speaks my truth, which is a higher value.

Firstly @Rahere welcome to the Forums
Secondly - happy birthday since that seems to appropriate today.
Thirdly - I dont have a Nobel prize, but can wish you these things anyway.
 
Dabrowsky's over-excitability hypothesis is simply a confession of his own dullness. We're frustrated at being forced to trogvalong at the speed of the slowest donkey in school, in an academic framework which is disconnected from the real world.
That might mean I'm upsetting a few applecarts. If so, good: you need a Nobel Prize to challenge me. Is that a denial of humility? Only because it speaks my truth, which is a higher value.

Welcome, Rahere. :)
I love this part of your post. I too, after going over the literature, available medical images, and various lectures, would come to the conclusion that many of us with ASDs have areas of hyper and hypo connectivity and conduction,...with a higher variability than the so-called "neurotypical" population. It is, I believe, the underlying reasons for the "autism spectrum".

I don't know how many times in my life I felt held back by the educational system, work policies and procedures, guidelines, and even laws,...all designed so that the slowest one in the group doesn't get left behind, or that some entity can reduce it's liability risk due to a "low intellect" event. Education should not be about facts, per se, but rather learning how to think and obtain useful knowledge for yourself. I believe there is a growing understanding of this concept that has yet to be embraced. At some point, we may be able to interact directly via a neural connection to the world wide web,...and we will be forced to change those antiquated educational models.

I appreciate a "healthy" bit a narcissism,...which you appear to possess,...as I believe it is needed to overcome anxiety-induced hesitancies that may lead to missed opportunities in life. Too many people within the autism community have been beaten down with all the things they "can't do", and/or perhaps sheltered from well-meaning parents, never really giving them an opportunity to learn, ...it tears down the self-esteem and confidence,...and may lead to life-long struggles.

Looking forward to sharing some thoughts with you.:)
 
Last edited:
Ummmm. Welcome. We have virtual donuts and coffee and past Nobel Prize holder's pictures in the library. Browse at your own freewill.☺
 
Last edited:
Welcome Rahere.

I enjoyed reading your introduction post.
Your name attracted me and now I see why.
We both have birthdays today also. So Happy Birthday, too. :tulip:
 

New Threads

Top Bottom