"ASD" is not a disorder & it certainly isn't a mental illness (most of us know that)-YT Tony Attwood on Greta Thunberg

I don't know much about Greta, except that many young people are starting to take activist roles-probably bc most of us that are older feel 'beat down' to stop many of the corrupt things in this world. I had to post this short video, mostly-for Dr. Tony's response where he laughs when ask, "What do you think about ASD as being called a mental illness." His laugh & response, that it's 'last century thinking.' I JUST LOVE HIM!

Parents
  • Greta is delusional used as a puppet by the global elite pushing for certain races not to have kids because of the environmental effect it will have yet import mass immigrants because of the declining population,

    As for asd being a mental illness i belive it's brain damage right ?

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  • Greta is delusional used as a puppet by the global elite pushing for certain races not to have kids because of the environmental effect it will have yet import mass immigrants because of the declining population,

    As for asd being a mental illness i belive it's brain damage right ?

Children
  • It is a difference in brain architecture and brain function. Nothing in the brain is damaged by autism, it just develops somewhat differently to most neurotypicals. There hasn't been a definitive answer to what the differences are, but they seem to involve, amongst other things, an increase in short-distance connectivity in the brain and a decrease in longer-range connectivity, This is thought to be partly responsible for the heightened abilities in hyper-focusing (reliant on short-range connectivity), such as researching facts or writing a thesis, that autistics display,. This can be compared to things like ball-based team games, at which autistics tend to be poor, where the integration of visual, motion, spatial awareness, trajectory predictive and many other parts of the brain (reliant on long-range connectivity) are vital.

    This architectural difference also affects abilities in social interaction, again requiring lots of co-ordination between parts of the brain, and sensory issues.

  • Autism is not brain damage, autism is a term that describes the diversity in the autistic person's natural neurodevelopment. 

    Brain damage is when the natural cognitive functioning and other parts of the brain are damaged. I have brain damage in my left temporal lobe because epileptic seizures have destroyed the neurons countless times that it's damaged the functioning of the hippocampus, my hippocampus no longer functions in its natural way.

    The damage to my brain is not because of natural neurodevelopment, the damage is because of epilepsy destroying neurons in those areas of my brain.