1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:15,000 Welcome to From the Spectrum Podcast. This is a podcast about autism. It is my goal to explain what is autism. 2 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:23,000 I plan to use a mixture of scientific literature, personal experience, and opinion. 3 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:35,000 With opinion, I will explain why, I fill the way I do and give examples. I will provide links to various references for each episode. 4 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:41,000 For each episode, we will discuss various aspects of autism. 5 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:49,000 Before we begin, a brief note on Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger's. 6 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:58,000 Amazingly, Erwin Schrodinger, a Nobel winner for quantum physics, quantum biology, 7 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:05,000 around the time that Kanner was discovering this autistic phenotype, 8 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:09,000 Schrodinger explained about Kanner. He said, 9 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:19,000 Kanner thought what nobody has yet thought about that which everybody sees. 10 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:30,000 Erwin Schrodinger's work is at the core of what causes autism with the atomic molecular level of the cell. 11 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:39,000 The living organism at the cellular level uses light to power their life. 12 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:48,000 Or said differently, light gives life to cells and living organisms. 13 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:57,000 80 years later, this is all coming about in full circle and one day, society will understand this. 14 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:10,000 As soon as more people start to view autism and being able to discriminate autism the way Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger's. 15 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:17,000 We have to include Asperger's because he was so critical with this understanding of autism. 16 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:29,000 And piece it together with those quantum biologists such as Schrodinger and Bohr and Einstein and how light creates life. 17 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:42,000 For today's episode, we will discuss B3, restricted, fixated interest that are blank in intensity or focus. 18 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:51,000 Such as strong attachment to or preoccupation with unusual objects. 19 00:02:51,000 --> 00:03:01,000 Not true. This is other people having conflict from something different than them, different from their belief. 20 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:10,000 It offends them and it finishes with excessively circumscribed or pervative interest. 21 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:17,000 So I will read it this time the way the DSM explains it. 22 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:32,000 Restricted, fixated interest that are abnormal in intensity or focus such as strong attachment to or preoccupation with unusual objects. 23 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:39,000 With excessively circumscribed or pervative interest. 24 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:44,000 Now, there's a lot going on here that I don't like. 25 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:47,000 We can just say obsession. 26 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:52,000 You can see I couldn't read that completely through. 27 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:59,000 One, I use blank to replace the word abnormal. 28 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:09,000 How can anyone use abnormal with interest, intensity and focus? 29 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:20,000 A side note, it's a bit of a paradox to me when someone is comorbid autism in ADHD. 30 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,000 It is suspicious to me. 31 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:34,000 One objective of today's episode is to prepare for a future episode when we will parse out autism in ADHD. 32 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:44,000 And how and why these should be very distinct conditions and not comorbid. 33 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:51,000 And two, after reading unusual objects, I explain my opinion. 34 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:53,000 I should preface this. 35 00:04:53,000 --> 00:05:00,000 I have intense B3, both the fixated interest and the pervative aspect. 36 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:04,000 We will dissect pervative later. 37 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:10,000 Remember the language used to define these so-called symptoms. 38 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:16,000 It's crude with intentions of capturing the spectrum. 39 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:23,000 Remember Hans Asperger's calling those autistic children little professors. 40 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:25,000 This is autism. 41 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:28,000 This is how I think about autism. 42 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:31,000 Because this is autism at its core. 43 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:35,000 This is the center of the autistic phenotype. 44 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:41,000 Some brief notes from Asperger's Autistic Psychopathy Publishing. 45 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:44,000 Autism comes from Bueller. 46 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:50,000 We cover this in the Rates of Autism episode. 47 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:58,000 Autist, from the Greek word autos, has limited interaction. 48 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:00,000 I'm quoting here. 49 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:12,000 The Autist is only himself and is not an active member of a greater organism, which he is influenced by. 50 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:17,000 And which he influences constantly. 51 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:22,000 Remember, I've said many, many times on the podcast. 52 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:33,000 And it is my experience and backed by Canner and Asperger, before I even knew about Canner and Asperger. 53 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:38,000 I say, are you even interesting? 54 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:49,000 Can you pull me away from this creative imagination, the things that I have going on in my head with these visual thinking, the thinking in pictures. 55 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:55,000 And this being fully consumed with a thought or an idea or an interest. 56 00:06:55,000 --> 00:07:04,000 Remember, interest and intensity or focus are combined in this symptom. 57 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:07,000 But the DSM uses abnormal. 58 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:10,000 More on that in a bit. 59 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:15,000 This is a path for developing superpowers. 60 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:20,000 Remember, allow us to become little professors. 61 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:28,000 In addition, in Leo Canner's paper, Autistic Disturbances of Effective Contact, 62 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:41,000 Leo Canner discriminated autism is something different than society's or his colleague's perception of what was happening. 63 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:48,000 Leo Canner captured these fixated interest and the social withdrawal of these children. 64 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:52,000 This is what is at the core of autism. 65 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:58,000 He nearly called autism an innate disorder. 66 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:08,000 We should not forget or underestimate the powers and characteristics of the autistic phenotype. 67 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:11,000 Today, we are saturated. 68 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:21,000 We are saturated with different views and different symptoms and conditions being lumped together and confusing. 69 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:26,000 Okay, B3 is a favorite for me. 70 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:32,000 But remember, B3 is one of my severe phenotypes. 71 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:43,000 And after I was kind of able to remove myself from those social norms and those social pressures and how society says you must fit in, 72 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:57,000 I was able to cultivate my superpowers, these fixated interests that make me who I am, that ability to be comfortable within myself. 73 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:59,000 Now let's consider something. 74 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:06,000 It's okay to be fixated on few interests or even one. 75 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:11,000 However, society and education contrast this. 76 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:14,000 Especially centralized education. 77 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:19,000 There's lots of criticism within our education system. 78 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:29,000 To normalize this, because of the size of all the educational systems, this ought to be assumed. 79 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:37,000 However, if objectable evidence exists, it needs addressed. 80 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:43,000 We've covered autism and education, one of the most popular episodes. 81 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:47,000 Criticism exists on all levels. 82 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:50,000 What is needed and what is filler. 83 00:09:50,000 --> 00:10:01,000 And if filler is a profit trail behind it, education is a top 10 revenue business in the U.S. 84 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:10,000 It is easy to find undergraduates claim a large portion of their coursework was not relevant or needed. 85 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:17,000 There are an arbitrary amount of credit hours required, such as for a bachelor's degree. 86 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:23,000 To my knowledge, all bachelors require 120 credit hours. 87 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:28,000 And if you look at the individual programs, the individual degrees, 88 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:37,000 there are filler courses built into that curriculum to build up the total hours to meet the 120. 89 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:40,000 These are irrelevant classes. 90 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:43,000 This is true in medicine too. 91 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:51,000 A problem, a different problem than the 120 required hours, but yet still a problem. 92 00:10:51,000 --> 00:11:03,000 It is easy to find various MDs, say half or upwards to 98 to 99%, is wrong with the School of Medicine. 93 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:08,000 And the concern is, what are the implications to that? 94 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:18,000 You can find the chief neurosurgery, he's a chief of neurosurgeon that UCSF say, this is incalculable. 95 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:23,000 We have no idea the implications because of this. 96 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:33,000 Charles Sidney Burwell in 1944, so after Rockefeller Medicine, remember we've touched on Rockefeller Medicine. 97 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:42,000 So after this began, Burwell said, half of what we are going to teach you is wrong. 98 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:47,000 The problem is, we don't know which half. 99 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:51,000 This is the motto of centralized medicine. 100 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:56,000 Carnegie and Rockefeller changed the path of medicine. 101 00:11:56,000 --> 00:12:05,000 Also see the Flexner report, Carnegie, Rockefeller and Flexner predates Burwell's quote. 102 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:10,000 And the many modern day concerns by MDs. 103 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:16,000 The status quo within our medicine, the medical field, hasn't worked. 104 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:25,000 Remember the cause of autism episode when we discussed light and all of our biological functions that use light. 105 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:31,000 Life is created using light, water and magnetism. 106 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:39,000 But medicine avoids especially the light aspect and this status quo is lacking. 107 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:47,000 It's not providing, neither has the status quo of the educational system. 108 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:59,000 There's a chance you should consider that last minute to two minutes as I began talking about centralized medicine and centralized education. 109 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:03,000 That could be an example of B3. 110 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:13,000 It's frequent and you know, you can remember criteria A, which is the social communication and interaction criteria. 111 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:20,000 You know that autistics have a problem with things like joining and ending a conversation. 112 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:32,000 And even the back and forth, we often are considered, we say too much, we just keep going on about a certain topic. 113 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:38,000 One, we have no idea how much you know and you don't know, even if you're involved or not involved. 114 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:50,000 We just want to talk about the topic and those social cues that the overall back and forth, speech and language conveyance is very complicated. 115 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:56,000 For this episode, I will use several personal experiences. 116 00:13:56,000 --> 00:14:06,000 The language is restricted, fixated interest that are abnormal in intensity or focus. 117 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:12,000 My preference is replacing abnormal with perfect. 118 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:18,000 The earliest experience that I can remember is the Vietnam War. 119 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:21,000 We discussed this in the first episode. 120 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:28,000 Action figures, books, my own version of books in the third grade. 121 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:43,000 Dialogue with others, wanting that dialogue with others about the Vietnam War, playing outside play, entire costumes, gears and toys, which isn't wrong. 122 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:45,000 It was just the time. 123 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:49,000 Those moments, that's all that mattered. 124 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:52,000 And everything is scheduled around it. 125 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:58,000 So remember B2, how we need to schedule our fixated interest. 126 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:01,000 B2 is the schedule and sameness. 127 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:17,000 When B3 is satisfied, when we can attend to those fixated interests and we get time to perform those or to be present in those, then B2 is more flexible. 128 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:22,000 The schedule, that strict schedule is more flexible. 129 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:38,000 Another fixated interest as a child, at some point, 12 or 13 or so years old, I made a game, a baseball game, that used averages, probability and dice. 130 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:42,000 Three die or three dice, I'm not sure. 131 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:46,000 You roll the dice and that is the result of the play. 132 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:55,000 Ball, strike, a pop up, fly ball, single, double, triple, home run and so forth. 133 00:15:55,000 --> 00:16:06,000 The likelihood one of those would happen for a baseball at bad was the amount of times listed on those options. 134 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:11,000 15 different options per row using the three die. 135 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:15,000 Then you roll until the outcome for that batter. 136 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:22,000 The scorecard is a typical sheet used at scoring baseball games. 137 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:31,000 Teams were either the professional teams or rosters or an early fantasy style drafting. 138 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:34,000 I took this game everywhere. 139 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:41,000 I know I had it at age 13, but I'm not so sure the age that it was created. 140 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:53,000 A highlight was I could play two teams like a normal game, of course, but by myself, I didn't need peers. 141 00:16:53,000 --> 00:17:02,000 As an adult, I don't have many years of having friends and certainly not romantic relationships. 142 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:08,000 So I have interest and I go all in. 143 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:15,000 Guitar was one. I, like many others, learned and taught myself guitar. 144 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:20,000 I would spend all of my free time on it. 145 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:28,000 I have moments of being able to listen to one song for extended amounts of times. 146 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:34,000 Sometimes hours per day for a week or just longer. 147 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:38,000 The same song on repeat. 148 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:47,000 Also as a young adult, I got obsessed with golf and the mechanics of the golf swing, more so. 149 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:52,000 More hours and hours of learning this. 150 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:56,000 These interests can be obsessive. 151 00:17:56,000 --> 00:18:09,000 Slightly later in life, I was introduced to older family photos from the 1950s and got consumed with living and growing up in the 50s. 152 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:13,000 Remember, because this accelerated it. 153 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:20,000 Thinking in pictures and supplementing relationships with hypothetical interactions. 154 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:25,000 With the thinking in pictures, it's like it's real. 155 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:30,000 I can put myself in those movies playing in my head. 156 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:43,000 A critical component of this ability is having infinite amount of references, memory and underlying desires to want the relationships. 157 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:53,000 Or more accurately, desire to increase the history of little conversations and relationships. 158 00:18:53,000 --> 00:19:00,000 My guess is those two things are independent but entangled. 159 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:08,000 The thinking in pictures and then that supplementing relationships with those hypothetical interactions. 160 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:12,000 Independent but entangled. 161 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:19,000 Next, I had stories about living and growing up in the 50s. 162 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:25,000 So, I began a novel, all of these things that I created in my mind. 163 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:39,000 I created a novel based off of those, about a character growing up in a larger or for the 50s, probably a typical size, family. 164 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:42,000 I based it on my lineage. 165 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:45,000 This was an obsession. 166 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:50,000 This was an example of when abnormal is acceptable. 167 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:56,000 I realized that this moment was not healthy. 168 00:19:56,000 --> 00:20:02,000 The one or few relationships I had suffered. 169 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:07,000 On vacation, it is all I wanted to do and mostly what I did do. 170 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:10,000 All of my free time was this. 171 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:13,000 Nothing else mattered. 172 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:16,000 And I was a new father. 173 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:21,000 I wasn't equipped with managing that correctly. 174 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:28,000 I had 17 chapters laid out in my mind and 14 completed. 175 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:38,000 The only thing missing is putting my pictures and thoughts to the Word document for the remaining chapters. 176 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:46,000 Interference, remember some B2 occurred from human interference and computer issues. 177 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:51,000 Was interfering with my ability to keep pace. 178 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:56,000 Remember how the brain is just highly energized. 179 00:20:56,000 --> 00:21:02,000 It's just rapidly busting out information, the excitation. 180 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:04,000 Remember B movie. 181 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:09,000 Remember the sensory processing. Everything's fast. 182 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:18,000 Everything in the thought, in the head, in the thinking and pictures is real rapid at times. 183 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:23,000 Anyway, I could not keep pace with these thoughts. 184 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:27,000 My actions could not keep pace with my thoughts. 185 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:30,000 And the computer broke. 186 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:41,000 Similar to the second episode with breaking the plastic cops and robbers toys when something unplanned or unexpected occurred. 187 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:43,000 I broke it. 188 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:49,000 In future episodes, we will cover autism and ADHD. 189 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:56,000 And we will cover Leo Kanner in Hans Asperger's famous first papers. 190 00:21:56,000 --> 00:22:06,000 And we will cover Donald Triplett, Kanner's first child, and Fritz V, the first child observed by Hans Asperger. 191 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:15,000 And we will show that these children and many people with autism have so-called temper tantrums. 192 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:25,000 When something is interfered with, when something from the outside penetrates these fixated interests and disrupts them. 193 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:40,000 What I really want to highlight is, today, our modern society, be it providers or family members, even parents, desperate for change, desperate to help their child. 194 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:46,000 They will get tricked into giving the child antipsychotics. 195 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:53,000 We've discussed the role of antipsychotics in the familiar scene to autism. 196 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:59,000 This is not the way. This is very dangerous, in my opinion. 197 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:07,000 We cannot just give autistic children or children with ADHD or any condition. 198 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:10,000 Psychopharmacology. 199 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:20,000 Besides, rarely, is anyone given full informed consent or any bit of informed consent. 200 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:30,000 These are the risk dangers. These are the risk dangers now and for the developing child or even the adult. 201 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:36,000 Remember autism and adaptive responses too. 202 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:44,000 Since when are people so interested and committed to defining unusual objects? 203 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:51,000 My opinion is, it is lumped into the overall autistic phenotype. 204 00:23:51,000 --> 00:24:01,000 Remember, and this is something everyone should consider. People love to get hitched on things they can observe. 205 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:04,000 It makes sense to them. 206 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:08,000 Now, autism has a spotlight. 207 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:16,000 It should, but the spotlight of attention brings lots of opinion and confusions. 208 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:22,000 Since when are others so focused on this type of behavior from others? 209 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:29,000 And this is why we will do an episode on the differences between autism and ADHD. 210 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:36,000 Both the inattention, the hyperactivity and impulsive areas. 211 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:48,000 Now when Leo Kanner and Hans Aspergers explain the children with many similarities with modern ADHD, but it's not ADHD. 212 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:57,000 You could say the autistic phenotype is inattention, but now it's just lumped together. 213 00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:05,000 You get autism and ADHD inattentive type. It doesn't make sense. 214 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:13,000 Zooming out to all, so not limited to autistics, but including autistics. 215 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:24,000 So many people fell to find interest. They fell to pursue their passions and do things that they love to do, they want to do in life. 216 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:28,000 And this happens too frequent in our society. 217 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:31,000 I think this occurs in life. 218 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:36,000 Now consider everything that comes from that. 219 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:46,000 Regrets, criticism, getting stuck, poor mood, poor effort and poor attitude. 220 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:53,000 I like to say attitude and effort are mine, not yours. 221 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:58,000 And this goes hand to hand with B2 and B3. 222 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:05,000 This is what I'm going to do. I know how I'm going to do it and you're not going to stop me. 223 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:13,000 Because quite frankly, I don't need you. I don't need the other people and it does not bother them. 224 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:19,000 I'm not interfering with them. So why are you wanting to interfere with me? 225 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:31,000 That's something that is constantly happening, especially in socialness, those social interactions or those environments that can offer this. 226 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:35,000 Remember the comparison to the checkout lanes. 227 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:40,000 Autistics are just like the self checkout lane. 228 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:51,000 Society has changed over the past 20 to 25 years. There are less manned checkout lanes and more self checkout lanes. 229 00:26:51,000 --> 00:27:00,000 And people, the masses, not all, but the masses, just simply prefer the self checkout lane now. They are used to it. 230 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:06,000 And this is autism. From the moment we're born, we're just used to being within ourselves. 231 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:14,000 We will just take care of it with no worries, no need for assistance, no interaction. 232 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:24,000 Self-satisfied. The very first words from Donald Triplett's letter written by his father to Leo Kanner is, 233 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:31,000 Donald seems self-satisfied. And this was when Donald was 2 and 3 years old already. 234 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:38,000 And remember all the conversations about neuroplasticity, becoming who we are and what we are. 235 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:49,000 And that becomes preferred. The nervous system just likes to respond to it without working, without all that metabolic energy and demand. 236 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:55,000 Remember the biology that gives us autism allows us to be comfortable within ourselves. 237 00:27:55,000 --> 00:28:02,000 This is autism. And this can offend people indirectly without them even realizing it. 238 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:08,000 They must intervene, they must change that person, that autistic child or adult even. 239 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:15,000 That child is different than the other children. Something is going on here, something needs changed. 240 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:21,000 We must do something. However, remember the superpowers. 241 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:26,000 The paths to superpowers from the autistic phenotype. 242 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:35,000 The biology that gives us autism gives us an ability to be comfortable within ourselves. 243 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:43,000 Don't try to change someone with autism because they are different than you or different from others. 244 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:54,000 Sometimes autism from the outside is a comparison to the so-called normal people. And that's not fair. 245 00:28:54,000 --> 00:29:01,000 Circumstrived accelerates this. That limited or confined or restricted. 246 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:07,000 Circumstrived means limited or confined or restricted. 247 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:15,000 This is huge. Others. Others say autistics have circumscribed interest. 248 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:24,000 This is wrong. This is a misnomer. The perception is off and it accelerates divide. 249 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:29,000 It accelerates limitations. 250 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:35,000 It is a human thought, a human creation. 251 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:47,000 My opinion is people say this. People say that autistics have circumscribed or unusual objects because they don't know what to do with it. 252 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:56,000 They don't know how to handle it and accept it. And that makes that person uncomfortable. 253 00:29:56,000 --> 00:30:02,000 Why are people so involved with other people? 254 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:18,000 And remember the others in quotations that are primarily surrounding autistics have underlying desires and drives to inject, help and promote change. 255 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:29,000 They are, could be parents and family, professionals which could include school support staff, therapists or psychologists. 256 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:33,000 Definitely could include ABA therapist. 257 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:39,000 And of course, others. Other encounters to lesser involvement. 258 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:51,000 Meaning even meaningless encounters. Those people can transfer strange moments that can strengthen those effective disturbances in the autistic phenotype. 259 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:58,000 When we are navigating society and we have these strange encounters. 260 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:04,000 Do you think we want to pursue these more or less? 261 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:08,000 Remember those discussions on neuroplasticity. 262 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:13,000 Things making us more of what we are. 263 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:22,000 If you have poor social experiences and the biology of the person provides poor socialness. 264 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:28,000 It's not surprising. Socialists would not be preferred. 265 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:37,000 Remember this is developed likely in the embryo and through the lifespan with different trials. 266 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:48,000 Let's discuss perseverative. This is repetition including behavior, thought or speech. 267 00:31:48,000 --> 00:32:04,000 The behavior likely makes sense to you because criteria B is restricted repetitive patterns of behavior, interest or activities. 268 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:09,000 It's perseverative and echolalia similar. 269 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:14,000 Probably. You know the English language. Does that type of thing. 270 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:23,000 Let's discuss children. If things are going bad, it will be tough to reverse that. 271 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:30,000 The perseverative thoughts will rule the child in the environment. 272 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:33,000 Remember black and white thinking. 273 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:44,000 Rigid. It is either this such as a good day or that such as a bad day. 274 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:49,000 Let's combine other discussions into this. 275 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:55,000 Remember adaptive responses. Autism and adaptive responses. 276 00:32:55,000 --> 00:33:02,000 This is a frequent topic for us. It explains a lot about the autistic phenotype. 277 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:11,000 Remember autism and education. The environment that has many implications to the autistic. 278 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:20,000 A lot of opportunity for the negative perseverative thoughts such as this is a bad day. 279 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:27,000 There's a lot going on that can be opportunity for the bad day. 280 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:35,000 I hate that. I hate that for the child. I hate that the education system is stuck. 281 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:39,000 Maybe they have perseverative thoughts. 282 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:48,000 Now another discussion. Neuroplasticity. This creates more of that expectation. 283 00:33:48,000 --> 00:34:01,000 Less trust. Remember the deficits in oxytocin. And oxytocins role with trust and social motivation in pair bonding. 284 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:08,000 This is all significant. All of these things. The adaptive responses. 285 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:19,000 Those environments such as education or employment and the neuroplasticity. The biology that gives the person autism. 286 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:25,000 All of these components. All of these are entangled. 287 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:32,000 Remember the closeness and shared genetic implications with OCD. 288 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:39,000 Let's discuss the striatum. The place where motivation and movements meet. 289 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:51,000 And motivation is related to the nervous system. Not so much goal directed but just the responses of the nervous system. 290 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:59,000 And it just wants to respond with as little energy as possible during that response. 291 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:07,000 It doesn't know the context. It just acts. The nervous system doesn't know the context. 292 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:22,000 It just responds. It takes deliberate effort and deliberate change to really provoke that other outcome for the nervous system. 293 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:31,000 We have habits and change is hard. Typically change is hard. Because this is why. 294 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:41,000 You could probably understand this. This part. This is not secluded to the autistic. This is all humans. 295 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:45,000 So hopefully you can understand that part. 296 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:54,000 In my mid 30s. 35 36 or so. I used B3 for a superpower. 297 00:35:54,000 --> 00:36:03,000 I took one one and a half two years and just really digested my life to that point. 298 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:09,000 Really discovered my life. What I wanted to do in life. 299 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:14,000 And try to work towards finding meaning. Things that I love to do. 300 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:23,000 My childhood and adolescence in young 20s. Even through the 20s. It was very complicated. 301 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:32,000 There was a lot of confusion there. A lot of unknown. Why I was the way I was. Or why I was the way I am. 302 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:42,000 But in my mid 30s. I really fixated on myself. And wanted to discover some sort of meaning. And potential. 303 00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:49,000 And this was huge. I put all of those social norms that I thought I should pursue. 304 00:36:49,000 --> 00:37:01,000 And I removed those. Everything materialistic. And I just found things that I wanted to study. To grow myself. 305 00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:06,000 And then I pursued those. Now remember in autism and relationships. 306 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:16,000 I don't have to balance that part of life. And this came directly after that. That last relationship. If you will. 307 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:24,000 I was able to utilize my time. And not to be caught up in those social norms. 308 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:34,000 And since then. I have really found relief. And. Optimize my living. 309 00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:50,000 Directly after that. Let into fixated on the Bible. I spent a few years just fixated on the Bible. The Old Testament. And the New Testament. 310 00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:58,000 A part of that comes from as an undergraduate. I pursued undergraduate at this age. 311 00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:08,000 Mid late 30s. And it was a Christian university. So that was built into the curriculum. 312 00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:16,000 And I really dove into that. And it allowed me to uncover a lot of restrictions. 313 00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:32,000 And I was able to just understand life and meaning. And not be caught up in what people think we should do. Or what people typically do. 314 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:37,000 I've said that society is a trap. Mostly. 315 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:50,000 15 late teens and early 20s. Society is a trap there. Whereby it forces you to make decisions and people get stuck after that decision is made. 316 00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:58,000 And it's hard to change. We talk about change all of the time. And the nervous system. It's hard to be uncomfortable. 317 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:05,000 And our nervous system is just responding. But this was a wonderful first step. 318 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:11,000 There is a lot to learn from the Bible about how we should actually live. 319 00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:21,000 Some more recent examples of B3 is I've become. I like to study dog breeds. 320 00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:29,000 I like to browse different dog breeds and learn about their personality and some of their history. 321 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:39,000 And this is also true with types of snakes recently. Recently I've been studying how to identify snakes. 322 00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:49,000 And most of these come from this type of snakes within my surrounding area. Within around five hours. 323 00:39:49,000 --> 00:40:03,000 We should consider how society, different aspects of the environment, different aspects of our society is a constant contrast to the statistic phenotype. 324 00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:17,000 B3 is at the core and all other symptoms or traits or characteristics, whatever the word that you want to use or the medical literature wants to use or the professionals want to use. 325 00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:30,000 They all stem off of B3, this innate disorder or this autistic phenotype. 326 00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:37,000 If you're listening to the podcast or listening to the episode, please feel free to leave a review or rating. 327 00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:46,000 In podcasting, reviews, ratings and downloads are huge. 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