Autism
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Thank you for not comparing the friends and family around you to a literal game.
If you do find yourself making the comparison then you should seek a therapist that has experience with ASD.
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telling people
I used to think i only told people about my autism in order to feel more comfortable or trusting. I suppose that’s part of it but i’ve begun to realize that the trust is what encourages me to share.
I want to give them tools to understand our communication with less friction.
Obviously I must continue to use my own tools to better understand the people around me but if i can avoid causing suffering before it happens ill do that too.
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Every time the driver asks me, my brain struggles to produce (the bus stop name)
mastodon.sdf.org Ænðr (@[email protected])Every workday I take the bus to the office. For the past 5 years I transfer at the same stop. But every time the driver asks me at its name, my brain struggles to produce. I have to force myself to remember: there's this landmark, then that one; I know that name, now what is the name of the bus ...
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[2018] The End of Autism? CRISPR Can Edit Out Autism Traits
www.newsweek.com The End of Autism? CRISPR Can Edit Out Autism TraitsA team of scientists think they might be able use CRISPR to edit out genes associated with autism.
The Lobotomy 2.0.
Assholes.
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"Autistic people aren't able to recognise social hierarchies"
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/421421
> Transcript from the post: > > > I've read here and there about how autistic people aren't able to recognise social hierarchies. Obviously I can't speak for everyone, but in my experience it's not that I haven't been able to recognise them, it's that I don't respect them and I don't care (inverted smiley face)
- diverseabilitymagazine.com Meet the first openly autistic woman elected to political office │ DIVERSEability Magazine
When Sarah Hernandez decided to run for the school board in her local town, the process of canvassing in the community was absolutely terrifying.
Great, more potential "diverse" imperialists to deal with.
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[Venting] I dislike how I'm politically gullible due to struggling with contexts.
Politics is full of nuance and contextual information; so struggling with interpreting social contexts can lead to autistic people being gullible.
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Psychiatric conditions hospitalize almost one in four autistic women by age 25 | Spectrum | Autism Research News
www.spectrumnews.org Psychiatric conditions hospitalize almost one in three autistic women by age 25The findings, based on Swedish national registry data, suggest a critical need to expand mental health services for autistic people.
So much for "social democracies", they may as well just be capitalist countries.
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Autism-linked mutation disrupts brain circuit to change social behavior | Spectrum | Autism Research News
www.spectrumnews.org Autism-linked mutation disrupts brain circuit to change social behaviorTherapies that target the circuit could boost social activity, new findings suggest.
Once again, capitalist try to eliminate autistics rather than help them.
Welp, I'll make sure to dodge therapies in the future.
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What countries could you lose rights because of an autism diagnosis? : r/autism
Every capitalist country ever.
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Spectrum of variants contribute differently to autism traits | Spectrum | Autism Research News
www.spectrumnews.org Spectrum of variants contribute differently to autism traitsDifferent combinations of common, rare, inherited and spontaneous mutations may explain why traits vary so widely among autistic people.
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ADHD in a nutshell
YouTube Video
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I know this is the autism community but as someone with ASD and ADHD, I thought people here might appreciate this video. There tends to be an overlap between the two.
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Organoids hint at origins of enlarged brains in autistic people | Spectrum | Autism Research News
doi.org Organoids hint at origins of enlarged brains in autistic peopleThe size of the cerebral cortex seems to depend on when neural progenitor cells multiply or differentiate into glial cells and neurons.
So it means that the diagnosis Autism really targets people whose brains have developed differently from the average person.
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Now the eugenicists are going to try to edit the progenitor cells. I guess it's time to prepare for a large-scale attempt at eugenics.
- www.spectrumnews.org When autistic people commit sexual crimes
Many first-time sex offenders on the spectrum may not understand the laws they break. How should their crimes be treated?
U.S legal system at its finest: "You aren't actually harmful to children; but you downloaded child porn and that's all that matters! You are sentenced to be a sex offender… even though the sex offender registry had never worked and failed to complete any of its goals.
- autismagainstfascism.wordpress.com We Must Confront Incel Recruitment of Autistic Youth with Comprehensive Sex Education
By Zvi Dav, Autism Against Fascism researcher While monitoring a group of Holocaust denying autistic incels (short for “involuntarily celibate”) on Twitter, I noticed one of them, Augus…
> What struck me about Augustus’ comments was that it is completely normal to start dating in your early twenties. I started dating in my early twenties, for one, and so have many of my friends, both disabled and temporarily non-disabled.
- What are their sources? (Other than anecdotal evidence.)
- "Normal" is an alienating term; not everyone will receive an average expectation.
- Most incels have not gotten a relationship or had sex. That is the definition of involuntary celibate.
- Who are the author's friends and what are their material conditions? There could be different material conditions that separate Augustus from them.
- They could be female (teens can get dates too) humans who are more likely to get dates.
- The author could have lived in a place accepting of neurodiversity.
> What is clear is that the fight against incels and their ideology must include a fight for comprehensive sex education for all students
Improper sex education is part of the problem; but it should be important to look at the economic system of the place an autistic person lives at.
The U.S is an example. They discriminate for romantic partnerships and against celibate people:
- Taxes are reduced for married partners
- The inability to pay for necessities forces celibates to get partnerships
- Bonuses are exclusively given to parents.
- Societal programming to inculcate the unconditional worship of parents.
- www.psychologytoday.com The Problems Facing Autistic People in Modern China
Bad experiences faced by Chinese autistic people stem from issues old and new.
> Unlike in the old Soviet Union…
The Soviet Union had discovered autism (although as a different term) in 1926;^[Sukhareva-Prior to Asperger and Kanner] the Soviet Union also cared for autistic people.
> Because of the lack of state resources going into treating autistic people, many parents of autistic children have to rely on “NGO’s” (they are unable to register as such, but are NGO’s according to the international interpretation of such a term). [5] These NGO’s are often rather inadequate: although many claim that they use ABA (Applied Behaviour Analysis), very few professionals working for these organizations have received formal training in ‘‘real’’ ABA principles and techniques. [6] Those organisations that do, such as the Stars and Rain institute in Beijing, are costly. Stars and Rain offers a 10-week programme in ABA, but the cost of the treatment is 3000 yuan (about $361.) with families being responsible for travel and accommodations on top of this. For most families in China, this is too much. [7]
Sigh... Looks like it's those ABA worshipers again.
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How are sensory traits formed?
I haven't been able to figure how sensory traits (like hypersensitivities, hyposensitivity, and sensory triggers) are formed or if they change. I tried searching online; but I keep coming up empty.
I guess science hasn't been able to figure that out yet.
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Could autistic people struggle with, or be better at, discerning deepfakes from real videos (than neurotypicals)?
Wait, I already posted about this topic... Oh well, this post is much more elaborate on my opinion anyway.
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Deepfakes can generally be detected by analyzing the movement of the deepfake,^[Deepfake Detection Techniques: A Review]^[Detect DeepFakes: How to counteract misinformation created by AI] or general sensory details.
However, some traits of autism conflict, while others align, with those methods. I think it should be important to have a discussion about autistic people and deepfakes.
Sensory overload
Sensory overload could be a problem when analyzing a Deepfake; it could result in a potentially large delay in deepfake verification.
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If an autistic person were to get sensory overload from the facial movement of a deepfake, it could be difficult to discern multiple deepfakes from facial movement.
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If an autistic person were to get sensory overload from sunlight, then the autistic person would not be able to discern fake sunlight in deepfake videos well.
Also the autistic person could only be able to verify few videos during recovery or burnout (if it occurs).
Nonverbal communication deficits.
The inability to perceive nonverbal cues means that relying on the deepfaked person's body cues to detect deepfakes becomes less reliable. (e.g Using real videos of Zelenskky or Tom Cruise to detect deepfakes of them.)
Hypersensitivities
Hypersensitivity to sensory stimuli could be an advantage or disadvantage in detecting deepfakes; hypersensitivities include an increased sensitivity sensory stimuli, which can be helpful in determining if the medium is believable enough to be verified as a real video. Deepfakes rely on creating believable media to trick the viewers.
- A hypersensitivity to light could result in an ability to easier detect unnatural light simulations.
- A hypersensitivity to movements can result in the autistic person detecting unrealistic body movements easier.
- A hypersensitivity to sight (or seeing textures) can result in the autistic person detecting unrealistic textures easier.
However, these hypersensitivities could also result in an increased probability of receiving sensory overload, which could reduce the ability to discern deepfakes for a time period.
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[News] Community Newsletter: Tracking cellular origins, autism acceptance, social-communication gains | Spectrum | Autism Research News
www.spectrumnews.org Community Newsletter: Tracking cellular origins, autism acceptance, social-communication gainsThis week’s newsletter looks at new paper alerts about neocortical development, double empathy and predicting ‘super responders,’ plus queries for the science Twitterverse.
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Should I ban "aww" posts? (Also I'm changing a term in rule 1 for accuracy.)
I've been thinking about banning [those "aww" posts][aww posts] for some time. You know those posts [flared with "aww"][aww posts] on r/autism? I like those posts, but they unnecessarily clutter up the subreddit; and I think I would prefer this community to be a more serious discussion platform.
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Also I'm going to change a term in rule 1: 'related' to 'relevant'. Relevancy is a more definition to my idea of rule 1.
[aww posts]: https://teddit.net/r/autism/search?q=flair%3Aaww&restrict_sr=on
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[News] Organoids show how mutations in top autism gene may lead to brain overgrowth in people | Spectrum | Autism Research News
www.spectrumnews.org Organoids show how mutations in top autism gene may lead to brain overgrowth in peopleThe loss of CHD8, a top autism gene, speeds up the production of certain neurons and leads to overgrowth in spheres of cultured brain cells.
I should really make a bot account that automatically posts news articles from this website.
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[News] Researchers, advocates rush to aid autistic Ukrainians | Spectrum | Autism Research News
www.spectrumnews.org Researchers, advocates rush to aid autistic UkrainiansAmong the millions displaced by the war in Ukraine are children and adults with autism. Many autism professionals are doing what they can to help.
What about the other autistic people?
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[Humor] r/autism - are we being fucked over by neurotypical capitalists?
Uh, yeah. That's why I got socialist ideas.
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Autistic people value their morals more then economic profit. Has anything like ever happened to you or..? : r/autism
Does that study that claims autistic people are "too moral" actually exist? I can't find what study it is. I'm skeptical that it actually exists, since I can't locate the specific study.
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What do you hate most about having autism? : autism
Executive dysfunction and burnout.
Executive function is used in a lot of scenarios; I feel like shit when I can't use executive function to accomplish a goal I have; and when I do complete a goal; I feel like I never actually enjoyed it.
- I can't find much advantages to executive function; I can only think of UX design; where executive function can make one blind to some issues.
- www.semanticscholar.org [PDF] 'Natures answer to over-conformity': deconstructing Pathological Demand Avoidance | Semantic Scholar
Throughout its history autism has been primarily defined in terms of a pathologised deviancy from normative cognitive functionality, despite protestations to the contrary from autistic writers (Sinclair, 1993, Arnold, 2010, Milton, 2011). More recently however, we have witnessed the wider acceptance...
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Why autism therapies have an evidence problem | Spectrum | Autism Research News
www.spectrumnews.org Why autism therapies have an evidence problemEarly interventions for autism lack solid data. The source of this problem is murky but may stem from ongoing debates about evidence quality and entrenched conflicts of interest within the field.
Disappointment 100.
This always annoyed me. Why do so many studies have issues with setting up fair and balanced tests? Why are the sample sizes too low?
- news.berkeley.edu ‘Minimally speaking autistic’ student wins Soros fellowship for Ph.D.
Psychology major is first student with oral-motor apraxia to win prestigious award
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Sukhareva-Prior to Asperger and Kanner (she discovered autism)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/228760
> Now excuse me, I have to post this on reddit to piss people off. /s
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How do you deal with executive dysfunction?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/159584
> I usually just ignore societal rules and only do activities that I want or need to do.
- www.theguardian.com Revealed: autism charity chief has links to anti-vaccine movement
Group received lottery funds while promoting unproven treatments
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Does anyone else have difficulty remembering to eat/drink regularly? If you have fixed this, what methods would you recommend?
All my life I've been been slim/athletic, but it's had far little to do with any kind of discipline and far more to do with me constantly forgetting to eat/drink regularly, plus sports. I'm tall too so that's always helped a lot.
It's starting to annoy me though because I know eating/drinking regularly is generally healthier than eating/drinking sporadically, and I'd like to figure out a method of fixing this that fits well with how my mind works.
In the past, I've manged to fix a number of lifelong issues I've struggled with by using resources geared towards people with autism and ADHD. I used to be fairly unorganized until I found these resources and now my stuff in general is very organized in a way that I actually enjoy maintaining.
I'd like to find a similar way to fix this issue I have with not eating/drinking regularly-- basically a way to structure things so that I eat/drink regularly in a way that I can really get into a repetitive groove.