How does autism work? People I met with it seem totally self aware and normal
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Edit: Source: Personally have autism and have been doing research and working with the group for over a decade. I have recently gotten a PTSD diagnosis from treatments I received as a kid.
Most of these replies are incorrect and people (even with autism or those that research it) generally don’t understand how it works. One of the leading theories and the one I subscribe to is by Martine Delfos, a dutch researcher, and it’s called the mental age spectrum within one person. It basically means different areas of your brain mature at different rates, so you can be say 25 in knowledge of how trains work (including the physics), yet 3 in social interactions. Obsessions are a result of this, if everything in your life is hard except for one thing you’ll tend to focus on the thing you do well. “Stimming” is often a result of undersimulation, being misunderstood or traumatized, as are agression issues. A lot of the behaviors associated with autism are actually due to other mental disorders, such as attachment disorders, which people with autism are at a higher risk for due to the world (and the treatments they receive at psychiatric instances) not being designed for them. The entire spectrum thing was invented because doctors finally agreed the way they’ve been treating autism was entirely wrong and the diagnostic model needed more flexibility.
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