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Autism (high functioning) root cause?

Stuart333

I have been considering this a lot to understand myself. Sorry about 'high functioning' terminology but I wanted to differentiate and I can't talk about anything I don't have experience of.

I have come to the conclusion that high functioning ASD is fundamentally an overly sensitive nervous system, which causes mode changes in the brain and inhibits social development, because people are unpredictable and a threat?

The sensitivity to over active nervous states drives confusion and mal-adapted coping mechanisms.

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  • I’m not certain I would agree with that as I grew up in a nice family with a close circle, we had a lot of predictability and routine. Also the children in my family with ASD have definitely been born into a loving and supportive environment so I would contest that and say in the future they will be considered high functioning and will need minimal support due to the amount of support and understanding they have received. It sounds like you are suggesting ASD would be a mental health condition  as opposed to a disability 

  • in reply to InterTrails

    Yeah, I think it's overly simplistic to say it's the cause of all high-functioning autism, as it sounds like even on this forum, low support autism looks different person to person. 

    Like my son is low support, but the problems he has aren't the same as mine. Like currently he has good friends, but he still struggles with some schoolwork. Some of that is more down to differences in processing rather than threat. 

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  • in reply to InterTrails

    Yeah, I think it's overly simplistic to say it's the cause of all high-functioning autism, as it sounds like even on this forum, low support autism looks different person to person. 

    Like my son is low support, but the problems he has aren't the same as mine. Like currently he has good friends, but he still struggles with some schoolwork. Some of that is more down to differences in processing rather than threat. 

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