Subliminal stims

[Ylva]

Rutgers neuroscientist identifies 'ignored' symptom of autism

This article says our nervous systems take detours. That we stim all the time without even noticing it.

Thoughts?

 

[Mia]

It may well be, I read the paper and it seems like pretty solid research, not candy floss science meant to propitiate a multinational.

"raising the question of whether the observable manifestations of autism (i.e., clinical ASD-symptomology as conventionally conceived) are fundamentally driven by systemic, increased noise levels in affected individuals. Data from 1048 individuals establish the specificity of this biophysically informed feature of ASD. It is also clear that the non-linear, dynamic nature of the developing mind and brain implies that potential deviations from typical development cannot be meaningfully captured with static, discrete, and linear parametric scales a priori imposed."
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Understand that I can only look at this personally, as I have no beginning to work from, don't know what it is to be able to think with another brain, don't know what is normal. Understanding that it seems as if my cognitive processes never stops, that slowing it down at times seems impossible. It may be that it does work continuously and has increased neural traffic. (̶◉͛‿◉̶)

It certainly seems so, sounds, smells, movement, all of it functions in such a way as to interfere and dampen other processes. There's so much that I sometimes wish it could be slowed. It appears that we have more involuntary head movement than NT's which indicates more 'noise' and that the parameters for measuring this have to change to measure the aspie brain. This sounds correct. It may too be closer to an explanation for our involuntary movements.

 

[Alcyon]

A very interesting article, thank you for sharing.

I did scan through the full work on nature.com. I don't have the wherewithal to make any meaningful comment. But I did notice that the use of psychotropic drugs offered no meaningful relief. And, much to my horror, some autistic children are being given anti-psychotics, amongst other forms of chemical treatment.

Wow.

 

[OkRad]

A very interesting article, thank you for sharing.

I did scan through the full work on nature.com. I don't have the wherewithal to make any meaningful comment. But I did notice that the use of psychotropic drugs offered no meaningful relief. And, much to my horror, some autistic children are being given anti-psychotics, amongst other forms of chemical treatment.

Wow.

I only put Informative because there is no "I am DISGUSTED" button. Kids on antipsychotics is despicable. A child next door to us was about five years old .They had that kid on about 7 meds to include antipsychotic. Well, he ended up getting Tadive Dyskenesia and was in hospital for a long, long time. That can be permanent.

He would tremor all the time.

I asked his mom if she was going to switch shrinks, that maybe it was a bit overdone? She gleefully grinned and said no.

I can only think she wanted to the cheque that went along with her child's manufactured "illness". That kid was fine. He was not sick and even if he had a problem ---um 7 meds??

Some days you just want to scream.

 

[OkRad]

Rutgers neuroscientist identifies 'ignored' symptom of autism

This article says our nervous systems take detours. That we stim all the time without even noticing it.

Thoughts?

I was also intrigued by the comments. They reflect how a lot of us feel. The one was all hopeful and the other pointed out that everyone now in on the Spectrum. One in 60? Ummm.........

Science is way off the track IMHO