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ASD in people from foreign backgrounds

Arran

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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  • Agreed with your first post on this topic, and the second too - yay all the indians on the american-canadian parrelle, although I found the east american-canadian cultures fascinating with the Nordic influences, and Russion and on and on through each parallel. Easter Island though is the one cuture whos teachings and methodoligies cause me to relax and just enjoy - without feeling driven or compelled to give loads of information about them. Oh - if you did not know how the Statues of Easter Island or the obelisks at stone henge and other stones circles were moved into place - Google:

    Scientists Make Easter Island Statue Walk

    Anyway, basically, any culture that made innovative use of sacred geometry for civilised purposes internally in the environment of the body, and by reciprocation on through the outer environment  - whether it was in the massive architectural stone-block sense, or very simply in tne minimalist sense - they all past and present fascinate me. I spent so much time talking to people from those cultures, or else those who had visited or lived with them. 

    I suppose the simplest way to summarise the collective message . . . is that according to the most civilised cultures of old, the neuro-typical percentile were the children of Humanity - as having the most generalised or broad range of abilities, and the neuro-divergent percentile were the 'suns' or children of Divinty - as having the most specialised or narrow range of abilities.

     

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  • Agreed with your first post on this topic, and the second too - yay all the indians on the american-canadian parrelle, although I found the east american-canadian cultures fascinating with the Nordic influences, and Russion and on and on through each parallel. Easter Island though is the one cuture whos teachings and methodoligies cause me to relax and just enjoy - without feeling driven or compelled to give loads of information about them. Oh - if you did not know how the Statues of Easter Island or the obelisks at stone henge and other stones circles were moved into place - Google:

    Scientists Make Easter Island Statue Walk

    Anyway, basically, any culture that made innovative use of sacred geometry for civilised purposes internally in the environment of the body, and by reciprocation on through the outer environment  - whether it was in the massive architectural stone-block sense, or very simply in tne minimalist sense - they all past and present fascinate me. I spent so much time talking to people from those cultures, or else those who had visited or lived with them. 

    I suppose the simplest way to summarise the collective message . . . is that according to the most civilised cultures of old, the neuro-typical percentile were the children of Humanity - as having the most generalised or broad range of abilities, and the neuro-divergent percentile were the 'suns' or children of Divinty - as having the most specialised or narrow range of abilities.

     

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