Published on 12, July, 2020
This comes up a lot in the forums.
That our brains are 'wired differently'.
I'd like to learn what that actually means scientifically, and also perhaps some of us might like to share how we experience our brains.
I think mine ticks over very fast, and I see it as a canoe drifting down a river with waterfalls either side ie danger ahead.
Please share any links you know of that explain our minds.
Here's one I found:
https://www.psycom.net/autism-brain-differences
I'll be looking through the articles posted by others.
I recently found a YouTube Vid by Prof Simon Barron-Cohen. 65% more neurons in the frontal cortex, apparently and greater connectivity between those neurons, also significantly less neural prunning...so sounds like we are hard wired for lots of 'if this, then that, and so' logical thinking and good factual memory.
Big amagdals though...ouch, kind of hot wired for anxiety as a downside.
I don’t like Simon Baron Cohen because he is very well known for leading some horrible and inhumane research projects about us including the awful Spectrum 10k.
Dawn said: We do indeed deserved to be celebrated.
Absolutely, we are awesomely autistic!
I'm actually agreeing with you about the priorities. We do indeed deserved to be celebrated.
Dawn said:I agree about Spectrum UK. Might be all very interesting to know which of our Gene's make us autistic, but to what use might some put that knowledge?
I understand your point, but I don’t agree. We autistics deserve to be accepted, supported and celebrated and not live in a world where there is research into why we even exist. This is quite obviously very dangerous and scary!
Here is what research priorities for our autistic community should look like:
https://autistic-village.com/2021/11/02/why-bad-research-like-spectrum-10k-should-no-longer-get-the-green-light-and-what-should/What do you think?
I agree he's made mistakes. You can see when interviewed though he is someone who wants to learn a d get it right.
I agree about Spectrum 10k. Might be all very interesting to know which of our genes make us autistic, but to what use might some put that knowledge? There are some dodgy ones, which might deprive humanity of the gift of neurodivergent thinking and endanger our kids.
He comes across as relatively humane, for a professor. Spectrum 10K was reasonably scientifically formulated, in general, but failed in its public relations quite spectacularly.