How would you describe autism? - Language Research released

Hi all,
We don’t often post like this but we’d like to let you know about an important piece of research we have released today regarding (THIS IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE) autism. It is based on a survey of 3,470 people including people on the spectrum, their families, friends and professionals.
We are keen to know what you think about this so let us know in this thread.
Take care,

Avi
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  • All of the descriptions of autism are whaffle and miss the essential truth - everybody has autism - the first specialists to use the terms autism and autistic said everybody has the condition, and it amounts to thinking divorced both from logic and from reality. Key word - EVERYBODY - so having it doesn't make you neurodiverse - it makes you neurotypical. In my thread entitled Neurotypical v. Neurodiverse, I've illustrated how neuroscientists define it as all brainwave frequencies above 13 cycles per second, which means all children have it, until the age of about 12, and all adults have it if they have normal sleep cycles. Those who do not have normal sleep cycles, i.e., those who suffer with sleep deprivation are generally the ones who go insane. And, so, adults who don't manifest autism in the course of their sleep cycles go insane.  This is the complete opposite to how we auties and aspies are treated. We are treated as the ones who are insane, and yet we are the ones that are normal. Yep - it's true - it isn't us who are insane - everybody else is - but they outnumber us - so they say we are insane and they win the argument only because they outnumber us - that's democracy at work - we are classed as insane for a political reason - it's a mad, mad, mad, world we live in. 

    PS The link to the language research released is broken!

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  • All of the descriptions of autism are whaffle and miss the essential truth - everybody has autism - the first specialists to use the terms autism and autistic said everybody has the condition, and it amounts to thinking divorced both from logic and from reality. Key word - EVERYBODY - so having it doesn't make you neurodiverse - it makes you neurotypical. In my thread entitled Neurotypical v. Neurodiverse, I've illustrated how neuroscientists define it as all brainwave frequencies above 13 cycles per second, which means all children have it, until the age of about 12, and all adults have it if they have normal sleep cycles. Those who do not have normal sleep cycles, i.e., those who suffer with sleep deprivation are generally the ones who go insane. And, so, adults who don't manifest autism in the course of their sleep cycles go insane.  This is the complete opposite to how we auties and aspies are treated. We are treated as the ones who are insane, and yet we are the ones that are normal. Yep - it's true - it isn't us who are insane - everybody else is - but they outnumber us - so they say we are insane and they win the argument only because they outnumber us - that's democracy at work - we are classed as insane for a political reason - it's a mad, mad, mad, world we live in. 

    PS The link to the language research released is broken!

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