1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,480 Welcome to From the Spectrum Podcast. 2 00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:09,880 This is a podcast about autism. 3 00:00:09,880 --> 00:00:15,240 It is my goal to explain what is autism. 4 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:23,200 I plan to use a mixture of scientific literature, personal experience, and opinion. 5 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:30,120 With opinion, I will explain why I feel the way I do and give examples. 6 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:35,160 I will provide links to various references for each episode. 7 00:00:35,160 --> 00:00:42,280 For each episode, we will discuss various aspects of autism. 8 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:48,320 Before we begin, I'd like to highlight some more on the cause of autism. 9 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:57,240 I feel it necessary and worthy to explain more detail about the human biology. 10 00:00:57,240 --> 00:01:06,320 Human disease or conditions or health impairments, whatever you want to call them, such as autism, 11 00:01:06,320 --> 00:01:15,120 translates environmental signals that inform our genes on how to respond. 12 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:17,560 What conducts our biology? 13 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:24,240 Those environmental signals are electromagnetic fields. 14 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:30,400 We've discussed light as an electromagnetic strip. 15 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:35,320 This informs the body how to respond. 16 00:01:35,320 --> 00:01:45,080 Disruption in our healthy environmental EMF signals creates the disease, impairments, etc. 17 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:55,000 Here we are talking about things like protein and DNA sequencing, electron transport chain, 18 00:01:55,000 --> 00:02:04,440 and the mitochondria, the water metabolism, and processes within the cytochromes, healthy 19 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:13,920 or unhealthy cell development, cell life or cell death, etc. 20 00:02:13,920 --> 00:02:23,360 Autism is our biological response to changes in EMF, the light source. 21 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:28,440 This ought to be of consideration when we explain. 22 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:37,520 When autism research explains, there are over 100 risk genes that cause autism that are 23 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:40,160 involved in autism. 24 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:47,440 And also, these over 100 risk genes doesn't mean you have autism. 25 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:52,600 Something about that does not add up. 26 00:02:52,600 --> 00:03:03,200 For today's episode, we will cover why autism and ADHD are very distinct conditions and should 27 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:09,880 have caution before being comorbid diagnosis. 28 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:18,760 I want to say if the children observed by Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger were observed 29 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:30,720 today, if they were alive today, they would have received an ADHD diagnosis, likely comorbid 30 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:41,000 with autism, and they would likely receive Oppositional Defiant Disorder, or ODD. 31 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:44,160 More on those in a bit. 32 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:49,040 Remember Erwin Schrodinger's comments on Leo Kanner? 33 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:51,200 Schrodinger said about Kanner. 34 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:59,880 Kanner thought what nobody has yet thought about that, which everybody sees. 35 00:03:59,880 --> 00:04:09,080 If we look at autism and even the modern day ADHD condition, everybody can see something 36 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:11,200 is going on. 37 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:14,600 Something isn't exactly right for the children. 38 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:22,840 And mostly we think some sort of intervention needs to be implemented, some sort of help. 39 00:04:22,840 --> 00:04:29,360 And remember Schrodinger's work very much explains the part that we began with about 40 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:35,440 the electromagnetic fields and how life uses light. 41 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:39,440 We cannot forget this. 42 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:48,240 Modern accreditations, or medicine, and society even, they can't have just a singular cause 43 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:51,960 for the autistic disturbances. 44 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:58,000 These so-called differences in socialness relative to social norms. 45 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:08,040 Either it lacks critical thinking and understanding, or it acts as a conveyor belt for prescription 46 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:11,240 medications. 47 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:15,520 Both reasons are wrong, and both are harmful. 48 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:22,560 If you zoom out and look at society, look at our children. 49 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:24,240 Something isn't right. 50 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:29,520 Now we can see that, that doesn't cause conflict. 51 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:36,760 But the reasons, that's for these modern day health conditions and these situations where 52 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:40,400 more and more diagnoses are occurring. 53 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:46,280 There are a couple things wrong and a couple of conflicts that these create for both the 54 00:05:46,280 --> 00:05:52,400 lay public and professionals. 55 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:58,280 Neurodiverse is a touchy and maybe harmful movement. 56 00:05:58,280 --> 00:06:02,840 People identify or claim to be here. 57 00:06:02,840 --> 00:06:12,520 Society subordinates or subjects people as this and essentially it's just labeling people. 58 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:16,040 Something humans love to do. 59 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:22,760 People will say, oh that's just my OCD or oh that's just my ADHD. 60 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:25,920 Okay, so now what? 61 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:32,040 One, it's not even OCD when people are saying this loosely. 62 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:36,520 People will say this in the example of oh everything must be in a certain order. 63 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:42,000 I like it in alpha order or everything must be straightened up, just right. 64 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:46,800 That's not OCD, but people will just say this. 65 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:52,640 Now if you have to touch something a certain amount of times or until it feels right or 66 00:06:52,640 --> 00:07:00,000 if it has to make a certain type of noise before you can move on, then yeah maybe that's OCD. 67 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:07,480 But people say this, they say oh that's just my OCD or oh I'm very OCD without having any 68 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:10,240 context or accuracy. 69 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:15,760 Also it is easy for people in society now to say oh that's just my ADHD. 70 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:21,200 Maybe they're forgetful or they have a hard time concentrating. 71 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:23,960 This is what we're going to parse out. 72 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:31,480 The ADHD in attention, hyperactivity and impulsivity and autism. 73 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:35,000 These are very distinct conditions. 74 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:42,280 Yet society comorbids these over half the time. 75 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:51,280 And I want to show, I want to clarify this distinct natures, the distinct characteristics 76 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:54,760 of autism versus ADHD. 77 00:07:54,760 --> 00:07:59,680 These ought to be very rare. 78 00:07:59,680 --> 00:08:05,640 Most importantly we need to remember criteria B3 of autism. 79 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:12,320 Now when we talk about Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger's and even some of the children before 80 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:20,200 them, the characteristic that showed up and made people think well something's different 81 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:22,600 here with this child. 82 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:32,760 It involved with them, the child being removed from the influence and the surrounding environment, 83 00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:37,040 the lack of integration in society. 84 00:08:37,040 --> 00:08:43,080 Some notes from Leo Kanner's first child he observed with autism. 85 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:51,280 Donald Triplett, his father said, Donald is happiest when he was alone. 86 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:56,720 He draws into a shell and lives within himself. 87 00:08:56,720 --> 00:09:01,040 He is oblivious to everything around him. 88 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:05,680 When interfered with he becomes, he throws tantrums. 89 00:09:05,680 --> 00:09:16,400 And if you think about ADHD and the inattention, the hyperactivity and impulsivity, surely 90 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:22,280 you can draw a connection here that autism is what's causing it. 91 00:09:22,280 --> 00:09:29,120 However it's easy for others to say Donald doesn't even pay attention. 92 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:35,640 He should be paying attention or if somebody interferes with him and he is upset and throws 93 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:38,800 tantrums. 94 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:45,360 Well now people will say that's hyperactivity and impulsivity and he cannot control his 95 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:48,520 behaviors for this environment. 96 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:52,560 He needs to remain seated and pay attention. 97 00:09:52,560 --> 00:09:57,120 Remember there are a couple of possibilities here that are influencing this within the 98 00:09:57,120 --> 00:09:59,720 autistic phenotype. 99 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:03,520 One the outside world is chaotic for the autistic. 100 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:13,600 But two at the core of autism is that B3 criteria, that B3 symptom or trait, the phenotype, 101 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:15,960 whatever the language. 102 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:21,120 And we will show even how the human language was very confusing for the children back in 103 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:22,640 the 30s. 104 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:31,800 B3 remember is restricted, fixated interest, that are so called abnormal in intensity or 105 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:33,840 focus. 106 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:44,200 Strong attachment to or preoccupation with unusual objects, excessively circumscribed 107 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:48,720 or persuasive interest. 108 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:57,600 And remember in the Rates of Autism episode when we explained GM Piaget in 1923 captured. 109 00:10:57,600 --> 00:11:04,560 He found that children had a visual thinking, imagery thinking ability. 110 00:11:04,560 --> 00:11:09,480 And this is autism, this is what really made Temple Grandin stand out, the Thinking and 111 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:11,480 Pictures book. 112 00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:17,240 The Piaget publishing predates Canner and Asperger's. 113 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:24,520 But Piaget was during a time with Eugen Bueller where it was more of a twilight peak. 114 00:11:24,520 --> 00:11:32,920 However, I suspect Piaget thought maybe something else was happening here. 115 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:40,320 And we covered this, we covered the twilight peaks and these Thinking and Pictures capabilities. 116 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:45,160 The outside world is not as interesting. 117 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:53,840 So at the core of autism, the true characteristic is B3, restricted, fixated interest, that are 118 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:58,240 abnormal in intensity or focus. 119 00:11:58,240 --> 00:12:03,240 From here, all the other characteristics branch off. 120 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:10,640 Remember we've discussed when we have time to intend to our B3, whatever fixated interest 121 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:20,520 we have, that helps B2, the adherence of inflexible schedules, needing that routine. 122 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:29,200 That lightens that up and we have a better ability to adapt to those schedules if we 123 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:32,360 have time for the fixated interest. 124 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:41,120 And let's not forget social communication and interaction, the entire criteria A, which 125 00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:46,320 is what is mostly observed and thought to be autism. 126 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:49,160 But people have it backwards. 127 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:56,800 The A shows up because of the criteria B, that self-sufficiency. 128 00:12:56,800 --> 00:13:01,280 Canner suggested it was an innate disorder. 129 00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:08,240 Now we're going to read a little bit about Canner's children and Asperger's children 130 00:13:08,240 --> 00:13:12,000 and letters from the parents at this time. 131 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:19,680 We will cover Donald Triplett, the first person ever diagnosed with autism. 132 00:13:19,680 --> 00:13:28,520 What his father provides to Leo Canner is telling, this is what is missing today. 133 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:35,640 Society loves to lump things together, disintegrate everything, to straw a bunch of things at one 134 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:40,440 thing and it helps them, makes them feel better like they're doing something. 135 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:42,600 Oh, I'm helping this child. 136 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:44,760 They have this, this and this. 137 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:48,880 All of this makes sense to them. 138 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:54,040 Let's review some of the key symptoms or traits or characteristics, whatever you want to call 139 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:59,680 them, of autism and then of ADHD. 140 00:13:59,680 --> 00:14:04,960 So criteria A we know, social communication and interaction. 141 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:14,280 A1, deficits in social emotional reciprocity, ranging from things like back and forth conversation 142 00:14:14,280 --> 00:14:21,160 and a reduced sharing of interest or emotions or effect and the failure to respond. 143 00:14:21,160 --> 00:14:25,520 A2, deficits in nonverbal communication behaviors. 144 00:14:25,520 --> 00:14:32,800 Remember, a large part of the human communication is using social cues, things like eye contact 145 00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:39,920 and hand movements, eye gaze where your eyes are looking, facial expressions and such. 146 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:46,120 A3, deficits in developing, maintaining and understanding relationships. 147 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:51,240 Now soon we'll have an episode on autism and relationships. 148 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:55,400 This has been finished but I keep putting it back because it seems like more and more 149 00:14:55,400 --> 00:15:00,760 salient topics of autism has been hitting me lately. 150 00:15:00,760 --> 00:15:08,760 Things like the cause of autism and autism research and this ADHD comorbid situation. 151 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:16,840 A3 captures this lack of interaction, this lack of imaginative play and sharing. 152 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:22,480 Remember some of my personal experiences, the things that I've mentioned about playing 153 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:24,200 games. 154 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:30,520 Make believe games is a child and it's going differently than what we established and 155 00:15:30,520 --> 00:15:36,080 me getting upset, what you will see later as tantrums from the canner and Asperger's 156 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:37,440 kids. 157 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:42,480 But remember where this stems from, this stems from that rigid thinking patterns, the black 158 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:46,000 and white thinking patterns. 159 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:52,560 So now B, criteria B, restricted repetitive behavior, interest or activities. 160 00:15:52,560 --> 00:15:59,680 B1, stereotype or repetitive motor movements or the use of objects or speech. 161 00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:04,320 Things like echolalia or lining up and flipping toys. 162 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:11,080 B2, insistence on sameness, that inflexible adherence to routines or ritualized patterns 163 00:16:11,080 --> 00:16:14,480 of verbal or nonverbal behavior. 164 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:20,400 Rules are rules and if they're changed, well that doesn't make sense. 165 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:29,520 Then B3, we've covered and then it ends with B4, hyper or hypo reactivity to sensory input 166 00:16:29,520 --> 00:16:35,040 or unusual interest in sensory aspects of the environment. 167 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:41,760 It's not hard to understand or see examples of sensory processing problems with the autistic 168 00:16:41,760 --> 00:16:44,600 phenotype. 169 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:50,760 So a brief review of these is the social communication is poor, that's understandable for you as 170 00:16:50,760 --> 00:16:52,760 well. 171 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:59,080 The schedules and the rules shifting, remember autism and adaptive responses. 172 00:16:59,080 --> 00:17:03,760 We don't have those adaptive responses that others have. 173 00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:10,800 Remember the neurobiology up through the medial prefrontal cortex and the ACC areas. 174 00:17:10,800 --> 00:17:19,480 This is well researched in autism in the routines and the ability to be sensitive to things 175 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:21,880 in our environment. 176 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:28,280 Now if you think about it, before we even review ADHD, you might think of someone with 177 00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:33,440 ADHD who is very chaotic in their environment. 178 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:39,440 They are constantly moving around, fidgeting, they are getting in trouble, they can't sit 179 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:45,120 still, they're not paying attention and so forth. 180 00:17:45,120 --> 00:17:52,520 But we've covered these autistic phenotypes that can lead to those behaviors. 181 00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:55,920 See this is what we need to really parse out. 182 00:17:55,920 --> 00:18:04,160 The criteria that autistic phenotype can cause many problems in the environment as the 183 00:18:04,160 --> 00:18:13,440 autistic are navigating the environment that will show up with similar features of ADHD 184 00:18:13,440 --> 00:18:16,040 or ODD. 185 00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:23,000 And we have to really understand that autism causes this. 186 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:30,360 Autism gives us those maladaptive responses or a lack of adaptive responses that chaotic 187 00:18:30,360 --> 00:18:36,200 outside world that presents an overwhelming feeling. 188 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:39,360 Remember the autism and anxiety episode. 189 00:18:39,360 --> 00:18:43,920 We highlighted those three key features in anxiety. 190 00:18:43,920 --> 00:18:53,920 Avoidance, the physiological response and valence, attaching an emotion or outcome positive 191 00:18:53,920 --> 00:19:01,640 or negative to whatever situation the living organism is navigating. 192 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:09,640 OK, some of the ADHD symptoms, starting with criteria A in attention. 193 00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:16,600 A1 often fails to give close attention to details or makes careless mistakes. 194 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:24,200 B, often has difficulty sustaining attention in task or play activities. 195 00:19:24,200 --> 00:19:30,040 C, often does not seem to listen when spoken to directly. 196 00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:37,800 D, often does not follow through on instructions and fails to finish schoolwork, chores or 197 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:39,800 duties. 198 00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:46,160 E, often has difficulty organizing tasks and activities. 199 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:54,880 F, often avoids dislikes or is reluctant to engage in tasks that require substantial 200 00:19:54,880 --> 00:19:56,880 mental effort. 201 00:19:56,880 --> 00:20:03,360 G, often loses things necessary for tasks or activities. 202 00:20:03,360 --> 00:20:09,480 H, is often easily distracted by extraneous stimuli. 203 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:14,360 I, is often forgetful in daily activities. 204 00:20:14,360 --> 00:20:19,880 OK, criteria 2, which is hyperactivity and impulsivity. 205 00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:26,000 A, often fidgets with or taps hands or feet or squirms in seat. 206 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:32,480 B, often leaves seats in situations when remaining seated is expected. 207 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:39,320 C, often runs about or climbs in situations where it is inappropriate. 208 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:47,000 D, often unable to play or engage in leisure activities quietly. 209 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:53,040 E, is often on the go or driven by a motor. 210 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:57,040 F, often talks excessively. 211 00:20:57,040 --> 00:21:03,240 G, often blurts out an answer before a question has been completed. 212 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:09,040 H, often has difficulty waiting his or her turn. 213 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:14,720 I, often interrupts or intrudes on others. 214 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:17,560 OK, that's a lot of symptoms. 215 00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:18,560 There's a requirement. 216 00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:28,480 You must have 6 of inattention to be diagnosis inattentive or 6 of the hyperactivity impulsivity 217 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:29,840 to be diagnosed with that. 218 00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:32,640 So this is important too. 219 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:39,360 You can have an ADHD diagnosis with just the inattentive type or just the hyperactivity 220 00:21:39,360 --> 00:21:41,560 impulsivity type. 221 00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:44,400 And there are different specifiers. 222 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:46,800 OK, not really important. 223 00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:52,920 What is important is these symptoms get lumped together and people cannot discriminate them 224 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:55,240 properly. 225 00:21:55,240 --> 00:22:01,560 Which is why the Erwin Schrodinger quote on Leo Kanner fits today. 226 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:05,480 We lack a Leo Kanner. 227 00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:07,400 Let's parse this out. 228 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:14,680 ADHD1A often fails to give close attention to details or makes careless mistakes. 229 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:18,160 1, we are already innate. 230 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:21,080 We are already within our self. 231 00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:24,240 And remember, are you even interesting? 232 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:32,240 And that does not dismiss who this other person might be or what their role might be. 233 00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:39,080 Be it an educator or even a parent or a friend, a supervisor. 234 00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:42,520 These things can have tremendous challenges. 235 00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:49,120 B, often has difficult sustaining attention in tasks or play activities. 236 00:22:49,120 --> 00:22:54,360 This is criteria A and B3. 237 00:22:54,360 --> 00:23:02,120 The social communication and interaction, the autism in relationships are already a challenge. 238 00:23:02,120 --> 00:23:12,480 Plus, plus we lump in B3 when we have a different restricted or fixated interest at the moment. 239 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:21,040 Remember the autism social communication highlight of leisurely back and forth or shared imaginative 240 00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:24,320 play or interest. 241 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:30,240 Is the autistic inattentive or is the autistic bored? 242 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:32,520 Checked out. 243 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:37,280 And then probably the easiest one with the inattention of ADHD is C. 244 00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:40,880 Often does not seem to listen when spoken to directly. 245 00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:44,480 This is, the whole reason autism exists. 246 00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:50,640 This from the little children back in the 30s with Canter and Asperger's. 247 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:54,520 It seemed like they weren't there. 248 00:23:54,520 --> 00:24:00,040 1D often does not follow through on instructions and fails to finish schoolwork. 249 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:04,520 Remember neuroplasticity with the autistic phenotype. 250 00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:08,920 Massive amounts of things and expectations go bad. 251 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:16,720 This becomes expected as we navigate society or navigate a school building or school day. 252 00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:20,160 We expect, well things here are going to be overwhelming. 253 00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:21,160 It's not going to go right. 254 00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:25,200 There's going to be a lot of things that don't make sense. 255 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:29,560 And remember the closeness to perfectionism. 256 00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:34,160 Perfectionism tracks heavily with the autistic phenotype. 257 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:38,640 And I think this exists because of those self sufficiency. 258 00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:41,360 Remember the comparison to B movie. 259 00:24:41,360 --> 00:24:48,080 We are just very self efficient on our inside with our thoughts and our imagination. 260 00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:55,480 And don't underestimate the amount of time we spend with this so called innate ability. 261 00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:59,360 We have the ability to perfect this. 262 00:24:59,360 --> 00:25:07,560 However, once we integrate with society, other people and other environments, obviously, 263 00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:12,480 there are a lot of external stimuli coming into play. 264 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:22,000 And another potential factor is we want to fit in, but in our ability to fit in. 265 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:29,880 Not from what society says or not how society says we ought to. 266 00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:33,720 Which can explain 1F as well. 267 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:39,160 And this is a huge distinction between autism and ADHD. 268 00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:51,080 ADHD 1F suggests people avoid tasks that sustain or that need mental effort along sustaining 269 00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:53,200 mental effort. 270 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:58,800 And this is very different between autism and ADHD. 271 00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:06,480 With autism, there's a lot of things that don't make sense on the outside. 272 00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:13,040 Remember we are integrating different forms of speech and communication and sensory processing 273 00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:20,040 and trying to make sense, trying to create order with that disorder from the environment. 274 00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:24,880 At the core of human advancement is speech and language. 275 00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:30,000 This is how we advance and sustain our species. 276 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:34,400 The conveyance of information and instruction. 277 00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:45,000 With ADHD, it should appear that this is more of a concentration or that inattentive problem. 278 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:52,280 And remember B3, the fixated interest that are so called abnormal. 279 00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:57,040 The key here is, is it interesting or not? 280 00:26:57,040 --> 00:27:04,000 And as society saying the autistic must give effort and attention here to whatever that 281 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:08,800 project or task is. 282 00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:15,120 Then jumping up to H is often easily distracted by extraneous stimuli. 283 00:27:15,120 --> 00:27:17,280 Well we know the sensory processing. 284 00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:21,400 This is understood by the lay public and the professionals. 285 00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:24,840 There's a sensory processing phenomena here. 286 00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:31,080 Which also explains down to the hyperactivity and impulsivity A. Often fidgets with or taps 287 00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:34,640 hands or feet and squirms. 288 00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:37,620 This will be highlighted in the canner paper. 289 00:27:37,620 --> 00:27:40,600 This is highlighted in my personal experience. 290 00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:44,680 And this is part of that stereotypy motor movements. 291 00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:48,320 This occurs in the autistic phenotype. 292 00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:52,640 Under the excitation inhibition imbalance. 293 00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:59,360 The overly excitation is generating these motor movements that metabolic energy going 294 00:27:59,360 --> 00:28:01,720 on within us. 295 00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:08,400 B often leaves C in situations when remaining seating is expected back to the sensory processing 296 00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:11,040 problem. 297 00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:15,760 Things get overwhelmed and if you're a child, especially if you're a child, you have no 298 00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:19,160 idea how to communicate this. 299 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:25,720 Especially if social communication and interaction is already a problem. 300 00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:33,400 The sensory processing is lumped into this hyperactivity and impulsivity language. 301 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:38,400 Same with E. Often on the go or driven by a motor. 302 00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:44,880 Well it depends on if it's the motor movements, the excitation inhibition or downstream from 303 00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:47,760 the sensory processing phenomena. 304 00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:56,800 Now I will say that both autism and ADHD are well researched problems in the striatum. 305 00:28:56,800 --> 00:28:59,800 We've covered the striatum pretty frequently. 306 00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:07,080 It's a place where motor movements and motivation converge and they produce a behavior. 307 00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:13,480 You also probably know that ticks Tourette's are highly involved here too. 308 00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:21,760 The problem is, since ADHD is kind of a buzzword, it's at the forefront of society's attention. 309 00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:27,960 They just think these motor movements are hyperactivity impulsivity. 310 00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:35,800 If we look at Fritz V, the first child in Asperger Autistic Psychopathy, he was very 311 00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:40,960 fidgety and could not control his motor movements. 312 00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:46,880 With Asperger's syndrome, there is a lot more conduct problems than what Leo Kanner 313 00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:47,880 saw. 314 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:58,320 Today, that's a go to ADHD diagnosis and something like the ODD or Conduct Disorder. 315 00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:03,600 And then also there are some contrasts, some major contrasts here. 316 00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:05,680 Back to the inattention. 317 00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:07,760 Often fails to give close attention. 318 00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:15,960 Well if you have B3, if it's a restricted fixated interest, then how could you have both? 319 00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:20,400 Or often has difficulty sustaining attention and task. 320 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:30,800 If you have B3, that core of autism, this is very much a contradiction, a complete opposite. 321 00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:42,040 And to sum up ADHD and inattention, items A, B, C and F could have many different reasons 322 00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:44,240 why this would occur. 323 00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:49,160 There are many different scenarios that causes this with all humans. 324 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:54,920 Now I understand, just because we're forcing out the difference between autism and ADHD, 325 00:30:54,920 --> 00:31:01,280 but the ADHD requirement, you must have them for different environments and in a certain 326 00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:07,240 length of time criteria B, the hyperactivity and impulsivity. 327 00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:11,320 Most of these are just typical responses. 328 00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:17,160 When the human has reached a sympathetic nervous system, when our alert and stress system is 329 00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:20,840 responding a little bit too much. 330 00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:28,560 In social environments, the classroom or a playground, whatever the case, this happens 331 00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:31,000 for the autistic phenotype. 332 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:34,320 It happens quite easily. 333 00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:43,080 When I see or whenever I hear children, or does anyone really diagnose autism and ADHD 334 00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:47,320 inattention, nothing about this makes sense. 335 00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:50,360 This is almost impossible. 336 00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:58,560 This is also true with the autism and ADHD diagnosis, with the hyperactivity, impulsivity 337 00:31:58,560 --> 00:31:59,560 specifier. 338 00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:04,200 Yet, there are so many cases of this. 339 00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:05,840 This is our paradigm. 340 00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:07,920 This is our shift. 341 00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:12,000 ADHD today is a buzzword. 342 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:14,880 ADHD is a hot topic. 343 00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:21,000 One, there are prescription medications, a whole plethora of them, a whole menu of options 344 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:23,920 now, before it was Adderall and then Mesofenodate. 345 00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:28,760 But now it's mostly mesofenodate, concerta, vivants. 346 00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:33,680 You have all of these prescription options and it's easy to get these. 347 00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:37,600 And society, the manufacturers are running out. 348 00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,320 They can't keep up with demand. 349 00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:42,120 This is a problem. 350 00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:49,480 This ADHD diagnosis is a conveyor belt for this prescription medication. 351 00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:55,440 We think that children, or even the adolescents and adults, they can't navigate this modern 352 00:32:55,440 --> 00:33:01,160 world with the changes in light source and the time removed from the sunlight to the 353 00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:05,880 artificial light and all of the non-native EMFs. 354 00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:07,200 Everything is changing. 355 00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:13,440 Now, instead of addressing the problem, we're just going to throw prescription medications 356 00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:15,400 out at it. 357 00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:19,320 Throw prescription medications out towards the public. 358 00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:26,760 It's so easy to go into your PCP, talk about inattention problems, or my child has inattention 359 00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:27,760 problems. 360 00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:29,160 He can't sit still. 361 00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:32,560 Okay, try this medication. 362 00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:34,200 That's our first line. 363 00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:40,880 When people get diagnosed with autism and ADHD, and the whole smorgasbord within the 364 00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:48,440 DSM, a couple of anxiety situations, ODD, remember oppositional defiant disorder. 365 00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:52,120 This is the absolute worst diagnosis. 366 00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:55,920 Only a human creation would do such a thing. 367 00:33:55,920 --> 00:34:03,080 Tell a child, tell a parent, tell a loved one, a guardian that, oh, your child has oppositional 368 00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:04,960 defiant disorder. 369 00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:11,040 I've seen parents just totally have the hope sucked out of them. 370 00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:19,080 Hearing these words, oh, their ODD is suffocating, suffocating their hope. 371 00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:27,520 It's not enough for a child for the accurate occasions of having ADHD and having that hyperactivity 372 00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:34,400 and impulsivity having troubles controlling oneself as they navigate the environment. 373 00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:39,960 They must have ODD as well, or conduct disorder as well. 374 00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:46,440 It's not enough that the hyperactivity and impulsivity can explain it. 375 00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:51,560 It's just, here, let's still want these other symptoms or these other diagnoses too. 376 00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:57,600 Because we don't want a singular thing to explain any one thing. 377 00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:04,880 We just want to throw multiple diagnoses out at these conditions, at our living situation, 378 00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:06,880 and call it good. 379 00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:12,480 This makes the provider feel good about whatever it is they're doing. 380 00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:17,880 They think they are helping, and it calms them, oh, I'm doing my job. 381 00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:19,840 This is the training. 382 00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:24,400 This is what training and the paradigm says. 383 00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:28,520 He or she meets symptoms for six diagnoses. 384 00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:37,560 Autism, ADHD, general and anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, ODD. 385 00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:39,620 What is the purpose? 386 00:35:39,620 --> 00:35:43,520 Are we helping or not helping? 387 00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:50,440 It's not good enough that a child has autism and they have troubles with integrating themselves 388 00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:53,920 in play or in the classroom. 389 00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:55,920 Remember autism and education. 390 00:35:55,920 --> 00:36:03,360 There are many contrasts, at least four contrasts, for the autistic phenotype in the classroom. 391 00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:07,640 It's not good enough that that explains the condition. 392 00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:11,480 But we have to lump all of these other things onto it. 393 00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:14,520 What are we actually doing? 394 00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:20,200 And after the B3 episode, I hope you have more understanding about the core of autism 395 00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:29,920 and that innate ability, that innate condition that we are restricted on fixated interests 396 00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:36,640 that are either abnormal or perfect in intensity or focus. 397 00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:38,600 Here's the conundrum. 398 00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:50,480 The DSM labels B3 as restricted fixated interest that are abnormal in intensity or focus. 399 00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:58,240 And the DSM also labels ADHD with an inattention subcategory. 400 00:36:58,240 --> 00:37:04,600 Is it abnormal intensity or focus or is it inattention? 401 00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:12,080 As we wrap up today, I hope you can parse out the differences between autism and ADHD. 402 00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:19,200 Now it's true that there are some overlap here, but that overlap is explained by obvious 403 00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:21,960 situations. 404 00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:25,520 In addition, there are many contrasts here. 405 00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:31,520 It does not make sense on why so many people are co-morbid. 406 00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:35,480 These are very distinct conditions. 407 00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:42,680 Before we wrap up, we will have a future episode covering Leo Cantor's Autistic Disturbances 408 00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:49,560 of Effective Contact and Hans Asperger's Autistic Psychopathy. 409 00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:58,000 We will see that many of these children have autism and only autism. 410 00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:06,480 And you will see that some of these symptoms described in the 1930s would classify as ADHD 411 00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:09,120 today. 412 00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:14,960 In the 30s with Leo Cantor and Hans Asperger, it was just fine. 413 00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:19,920 It was accepted to just have one condition. 414 00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:28,560 One condition can explain the phenotype, such as Donald Triplett being self-satisfied or 415 00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:34,880 when he was interfered with had temper tantrums which were destructive. 416 00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:41,240 Today, that means something totally different than just autism. 417 00:38:41,240 --> 00:38:46,080 But in reality, it's just autism. 418 00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:50,800 If you are listening to the episode or listening to the podcast, please feel free to leave 419 00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:53,440 a review or rating. 420 00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:58,880 In podcasting, reviews, ratings, and downloads are huge. 421 00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:02,760 And I very much appreciate your feedback. 422 00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:20,440 You can contact me on X at rps47586 or Facebook or email info.fromthespectrum.com. 423 00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:28,080 I'm happy to say that in Apple Podcast, there are many higher rankings in six or seven different 424 00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:29,880 countries. 425 00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:35,120 For the podcast, I am very pleased to announce that information. 426 00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:36,600 I appreciate you listening. 427 00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:39,520 I appreciate your interaction on X. 428 00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:44,400 I hope that you are learning about autism. 429 00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:51,160 Autism is hard to parse out because we are so saturated with views and opinions and people 430 00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:55,280 not knowing exactly what is going on. 431 00:39:55,280 --> 00:40:04,320 And before we end, I just want to remind that the cause of autism seems pretty clear to 432 00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:05,320 me. 433 00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:12,400 It's very clear to me now as we both zoom out and look at the time frame and then also 434 00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:15,720 zoom in and look at the cause. 435 00:40:15,720 --> 00:40:20,760 I think this is very obvious, but it has little traction. 436 00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:23,080 Research is going in the wrong direction. 437 00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:28,040 And the cause of autism is jumping up and down, waving a flag. 438 00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:29,400 Look at me. 439 00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:31,040 Look here. 440 00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:40,280 All of this research is pointing to something in our biological processing, delight, water, 441 00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:49,000 magnetism, the items we use, the proteins are involved, all of our biological components. 442 00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:51,320 Something has changed. 443 00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:53,000 Nothing was added. 444 00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:55,360 Something changed. 445 00:40:55,360 --> 00:41:02,840 And that change appears to be the change from sunlight and the solar spectra, the 280 to 446 00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:13,080 3100 nanometers, to the isolated artificial light as the electromagnetic field that drives 447 00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:19,880 human and living organisms on Earth. 448 00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:23,960 Thank you for listening to From the Spectrum podcast.