ASD in people from foreign backgrounds

Almost all studies into ASD published in English has been by carried out by culturally British or American people using culturally British or American people as their subjects. Far less research appears to have been carried out into people from culturally foreign backgrounds, or people who follow religions other than Christianity (and possibly Judaism in the US).

Therefore information about how ASD manifests in such people is scarce and largely unknown within psychology and ASD support communities. American publications are very unlikely to include findings from foreign communities which are significant in Britain but smaller, or even invisible, in the US. 

My own experience of the NAS is that it is dominated by white, British, socially conservative, middle class people from the suburbs and the shires. The NAS superficially claims to uphold an inclusive and multicultural society but in reality it has a generally poor knowledge of foreign cultures and non-Christian religions.

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  • What Western Science (quantum physics) describes as being "Dark Matter" ~ Eastern Religion (metaphysics) describes as being "Aether" ~ as means Matter of Light or Dark Matter. So same 'object' different naming or nomenclature.

    As it is then, what we amongst all the English speaking Western cultures describe as being Autism, Asperger's Syndrome, Kanner's Syndrome or ASD - Buddism, Judaims, Toaism and just as every single religious culture has done since prehistory; there really should be no shock at all nor any surprise what-so-ever that they have different nomenclatures for Autism too.

    Now as an Aspergian type, I was one of those that was born with a university level reading competance, and becuase:

    A) I really could not get on with most Neuro-Typicals [or NT's] due to thier victimisations;

    B) Most NT's could not get on with me as I never take sides;

    C) I could not understand why the larger majority of NT's kept on pretendeding to be themselves,

        and why the lesser majority of Neuro-Typicals kept on pretending to be other people;

        and,

    D) No matter how many times I tried to explain my observations; many NT's said I was imagining

        things, or lying, and when it turned out I had reported the facts of 'unbelievable' matters - most

        would ignore or deny it, some would become unsettled or frightened and then avoid me ~

        whenever possible, some would persecute me, and the smallest proportion were fascinated by

        me, and few even wanted to know more.

    I went to the library with my 'mummy' as I called her back then, when I was about 6, and started on Egyptian theosophies and philosophies (Thoth, Hermes Trismegistus etc) and the Greeks (Plato, Socrates etc) and on and on in order to find out why everybody seemed so utterly unsane or insane, or whether it was wholly and truely me who was instead a-hell-of-lot madder than even I thought I wasn't. 

    >> To tired to continue writing right now, as this has taken seven hours to write, and I'll continue when able to list a few descriptors for ASD in other cultures, but one book I found monmental from the pagan tradition before the Christian era - there were a number of different modernisations and vague variations with the titlle of which there are: - Book of Merlin - The Art of Living Backwards - <<

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  • What Western Science (quantum physics) describes as being "Dark Matter" ~ Eastern Religion (metaphysics) describes as being "Aether" ~ as means Matter of Light or Dark Matter. So same 'object' different naming or nomenclature.

    As it is then, what we amongst all the English speaking Western cultures describe as being Autism, Asperger's Syndrome, Kanner's Syndrome or ASD - Buddism, Judaims, Toaism and just as every single religious culture has done since prehistory; there really should be no shock at all nor any surprise what-so-ever that they have different nomenclatures for Autism too.

    Now as an Aspergian type, I was one of those that was born with a university level reading competance, and becuase:

    A) I really could not get on with most Neuro-Typicals [or NT's] due to thier victimisations;

    B) Most NT's could not get on with me as I never take sides;

    C) I could not understand why the larger majority of NT's kept on pretendeding to be themselves,

        and why the lesser majority of Neuro-Typicals kept on pretending to be other people;

        and,

    D) No matter how many times I tried to explain my observations; many NT's said I was imagining

        things, or lying, and when it turned out I had reported the facts of 'unbelievable' matters - most

        would ignore or deny it, some would become unsettled or frightened and then avoid me ~

        whenever possible, some would persecute me, and the smallest proportion were fascinated by

        me, and few even wanted to know more.

    I went to the library with my 'mummy' as I called her back then, when I was about 6, and started on Egyptian theosophies and philosophies (Thoth, Hermes Trismegistus etc) and the Greeks (Plato, Socrates etc) and on and on in order to find out why everybody seemed so utterly unsane or insane, or whether it was wholly and truely me who was instead a-hell-of-lot madder than even I thought I wasn't. 

    >> To tired to continue writing right now, as this has taken seven hours to write, and I'll continue when able to list a few descriptors for ASD in other cultures, but one book I found monmental from the pagan tradition before the Christian era - there were a number of different modernisations and vague variations with the titlle of which there are: - Book of Merlin - The Art of Living Backwards - <<

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