Welcome to From the Spectrum Podcast. This is a podcast about autism. It is my
goal to explain what is autism. I plan to use a mixture of scientific literature,
personal experience, and opinion. With opinion, I will explain why, after the way
I do, and give examples. I will provide links to various references for each episode. For each
episode, we will discuss various aspects of autism. For today's episode, we will cover
Hans Asperger's Autistic Psychopathy in Childhood. Asperger really highlighted autistic
intelligence and Asperger's little professors. Immediately, Asperger defines
autistic as a disturbance of limited interaction, little influence from the
environment, and he captures Eugen Bueller's description from the 1911 book.
Autistic Psychopathy today will translate into Autism Personality Disorder. Remember
covering very similar conditions with Schizotypy Personality Disorder. This
personality disorder, Schizotypy, provides more detailed traits or phenotypes than
the language used in modern criteria for Autism Spectrum Disorder. Immediately,
Asperger warns physical appearance, expressive functions, and whole behavior
resulting in severe characteristics, implicating social integration. He
highlights a spectrum here. From profound to some children can compensate based
on a higher level of original thought and experience, leading to exceptional
achievements later in life. Exact words, exceptional achievements later in life.
We already know what prevents or delays or implicates that. That is, society lacking
critical thinking and a capacity to understand and guide our specific
phenotypes into our abilities, superpowers or not. And Asperger highlights
this. We can find our social role. The delta is how much will you interfere
because we are different than you and different from the social norms. Remember
Autist and remember me saying maybe too many times the biology that gives us
Autism allows us to be comfortable within ourselves. Jack Cruz considers it an
atavastic condition. His work in quantum physics describes Autism better than
anyone else's you will know. Like Canner, Asperger discriminates differences from
the schizophrenic condition first coined by Eugen Bueller and it's accurate. These
are different conditions from severe schizophrenic conditions. Bueller's book
from 1911 was covered in understanding the rates of Autism episode. Okay,
Asperger's 1944 paper. But first, it is remarkable the time frame similar to
Canner. Asperger and Canner being from the same country yet studied Autism
across the world from each other. I cannot understand how the timing of this
does not jump out to more people. Might it be recency bias? Viewing from a very
narrow lens and people complicating Autism and the rates of Autism. The rates
like most or all chronic conditions we are seeing follow the shift to
artificial light during the day and night and away from sunlight and the types of
artificial light. There are differences between incandescent, CFL, and LED and
tech light. Please know just because you don't know something is true does not
mean it is not true. Okay, 1944. Asperger has roughly 200 children he has
experienced. The paper highlights four detailed case studies. The first born in
1933. Fritz V. Severe social integration is immediately highlighted.
Fritz began going to the clinic in Vienna in 1939 and referred by his school for
being quote uneducatable by the end of his first day in school. Fritz was the
first child of his parents and had a brother when Fritz was two years old. The
brother had similar difficulties but not as much. Fritz's birth was normal. He had
motor delays, motor movement delays. He spoke at 10 months, walked at 14 months,
he was clumsy and had trouble learning daily functioning skills. His speech and
expression and sentence were superior and learned quickly to talk like an adult.
Fritz never did what he was told to do. He did what he wanted to do or the
opposite of what he was told to do. Heartstop. Today, there would be autism
with comorbid, probably ADHD and ODD, a couple of prescriptions, stimulants,
antipsychotics, the whole centralized medical paradigm of diagnosis and
medications. Modern medicine is sickening with this. Modern medicine and psychology
will throw three, four, five diagnoses at one person. Newsflash is just autism. See
autism and the ADHD episode for more details. These two do not exist within
the same person. In addition, Fritz was restless and fidgety. He was
destructive. Fritz was never interested in play or with other children. Other kids
would, quote, round him up exact words, remember sensory processing. Fritz had
tendency of breaking things and being aggressive. One thing to note as a
difference to canner kids and Aspergers, Aspergers typically had more aggression
than canners did. Fritz, like most or like all even, had no real love for other
people. At least shown. Remember the three episodes on relationships. One with
Jonathan Mitchell. One with the clinician Dr. Teresa Regan and the solo
autism and relationship episode. I think valuable information on this topic comes
from these three episodes. Occasionally Fritz showed bouts of affection.
Asperger described this as a fit, a remarkable feature of Fritz's phenotype.
He would talk to strangers. Fritz had a so-called strange phenomenon of
stereotypy movements and habits. Some family history of Fritz includes creative
members and poetry and intellectuals. Fritz's grandfather had similar childhood
disobedience. This is interesting to me. So-called behaviors as a child has many
factors though. Fritz's mother had a inner world similar to him, preoccupied
with her own thoughts. Fritz's father was 55 at the time of his birth. Both mom and
dad were socially withdrawn. His posture, voice and speech were abnormal.
Eye gaze was noticed and abnormal. It was lacking. He gave short glances only.
Similar to Canner description, Asperger said it was like he wasn't there. He had
bouts of echolalia and often did not respond to verbal commands. He ate
strange and inappropriate things and objects. Paper, wood, whole pencils and
lead disclaimer. I ate cigarette butts as a child. A lot of them. Even after I
should have. So-called known better. Maybe related to his strange eating objects,
but Fritz had GI problems. This is huge. Same as the Canner kids and same as
research suggests today. Autism and GI is very impressive the data here. Despite
being socially withdrawn, he could recall and had excellent apprehension of
others and of situations. This is common. The perception is we are withdrawn, but
we are very much aware of the surroundings and our learning in constant
and in real time. Remember the example of the B movie. Remember how much we are
processing and at the rates of this processing. Fritz had a strong interest
and talent with numbers and calculations. Perhaps a savant. He was self-taught with
fractions, negative numbers, percents and so forth. A highlight of Asperger's paper
and mentioned here many many times. A crucial message of the entire podcast.
At the end of page 45 from the paper Asperger's paper, Asperger says, well, we
see something that we have come across in almost all autistics. A special interest
which enables them to achieve extraordinary levels of performance in a
certain area. This is the autistic phenotype. Limited special interest,
fixations and perfecting that. This is incomplete contrast of today's educational
system and social norms. The next child is Harold L. Eight and a half years old.
School was unmanageable. He failed in all subjects. He was stubborn and independent
from an early age. Socially withdrawn, he was considered odd and was subject to
ridicule. Like Fritz, if a question did not interest him, he would shut off. He had
rigid facial expressions, clumsy, struggled with daily life, including getting
washed. Asperger highlights a delta here, a difference of teacher and adult
expectation, an autistic capability or function. I guess I could say desire here
too. Meaning how much a teacher or adult expects us to do something and how much
they are non-negotiable of that task in comparison of how much we are non-negotiable.
How much of a difference is clashing here between the other adult or the family
member, staff member, educator and us? How much difference is going on here? This
is delicate. I'm not saying we get a pass from the rules, but are we even really
talking about the rules? Are we talking about social norms, these so-called human
creations and so forth? Human creation and these abstract ideas of that one
human or a set or a collection of humans create a norm and a task that they see
fit for others to follow, to shape, to develop, to enforce those norms onto
others, then evaluate the other or the others on those created set of standards
and calculate the results. Everything we do can be turned into a number. That's
what we do in neuroscience and psychology and medicine, statistics and so forth.
This is why I say can you fit in or not? Are you like the so-called normal people
or not? Don't try to change an autistic because they are different than you.
Check your reflexive conflict happening within your nervous system and be aware
of your own underlying beliefs and how much that is motivating and moving you.
Parents, family, friends, educators, medicine likely have a driving force to
guide them towards a helping role, to help the struggling person, the person
that they consider in need or that verbalize need and help. They want to help
the struggling autistic. Remember our phenotype, thinking style, abilities, in
some cases our superpowers. All of these have a stark contrast, a delta to the
norm. On that, Harrow and Asperger noted, autistic children needed extensive
deliberate teaching. Asperger also mentioned, the use of a timetable. Remember
restricted repetitive behaviors. These are our obsessions, intelligence or not.
The next case study is earnest, age seven and a half, normal birth and
development. Besides slight delayed speech. Then earnest vocabulary and language
was considered like an adult. He was socially withdrawn. The environment
surroundings was not there. Consider a troubled maker. He self-taught himself
how to count and the letters of the alphabet before school. In school he
failed. Asperger says, failed miserably. He argued with the teacher on how to hold
the pen. Heart stop, we just covered this. The delta with the social norms. That
teacher seeing earnest hold a pen differently had conflict within herself
or within himself. Also to note, however, his penmanship was bad, which is likely
every autistic person ever. Ereanness was very precise and routine like. However, in
some matters he was messy. It is an interesting autistic paradox here. He was
face-o libel. Remember my suspicion with copper and melanin.
earnest would turn red, bright, blotchy red, when embarrassed or excited. This role
of copper, synthesizing tyrosine and to make melanin seems suspicious to me.
Seems like a region of interest. He had bad eye gaze, stereotypies, clumsy,
aggressive towards others. No friends. No friends of peers or staff. He was teased
at school. Horrible with spelling. Slow reading. Remember the speech and language
dynamic with reading and sensory processing. We silently speak to ourselves.
During reading, we utilize the same muscles used in speech and we speak
silently to ourselves, to teach ourselves. He confused letters and typically
blended letters together. Asperger believed earnest, despite severe academic
performance, was able to advance to higher grade because he could talk in great
detail about topics. During these conversations, earnest was bright. During
school requirements and curriculum, he had major struggles. Later, it was
considered earnest, was dyslexic. His best chance, it was determined to be in a
small group or one-on-one instead of the normal classroom. No doubts. This is the
way this is best suited for most autistic phenotypes. The next child was
Helmuth L. At birth, mother was 41 and Helmuth was the fourth child. He had severe
asphyxia at birth. Soon after, convulsions twice. Now, with everything we've
covered about oxygen and cytochrome c-oxidase and the mitochondria, we
know we breathe. We breathe so oxygen can enter the body and cytochrome c-oxidase
can function and make water. This is very interesting, especially with the roles
of how light and water are entangled. Not all water is created equal. Our
mitochondria are very sensitive to the environment. Let's think about the
environment changing. Back then, in 1930s, it was first changed. This is all going
along with the light as a cause of autism. Helmuth had delayed development,
including size, speech and language. As a child, he learned how to talk like an
adult. Helmuth was obese, which was rare back then. Despite a strict medical
diet, whatever that meant back then, he was still obese. He did not have a big
appetite. Now, remember everything now with this artificial light and how
humans evolved under that sunlight, which is massively different than the
artificial light. Helmuth here might be the best case study for this. In addition,
he had excessive saliva. Asperger began seeing him at age 11. He had abnormal
eye gaze, clumsy, a weak body. Handshake felt like rubber. There was no bone. He had
sexual tendencies and urges later as a teen that were quite abnormal. Quite
frankly, with what we know now, Helmuth's hypothalamus was large. It must have been
large, a complete loss of thermodynamics running through the hypothalamus. The
paper gives other details about exogenous hormones. He was on many different
types of hormones. He had advanced vocabulary. He spoke poetically and had
interest in poetry. He did not care. He didn't fit in. Remember, the biology that
gives us autism allows us to be comfortable within ourselves. Academically
stated, uneven. He had advances and deficiencies, intense rituals, and he was
obsessed with cleanliness. Those are the four case studies. Asperger quotes on
page 68. Once one has properly recognized an autistic individual, one can spot such
children instantly. Now a brief summary of the 200 cases. Some common features. At
age two, the phenotypes were seen and lasted through the lifespan. Children
had learning and conduct problems. Adolescents had job and performance
problems. Adults had social and marital problems. I fit all of those. All had eye
gaze problems. Asperger mentions, at age three months, you can begin to see this.
And now, modern day, we have a biomarker for eye movement and eye tracking. This is
such an advancement by Asperger. Asperger suggests, autistics perceive with a
peripheral vision. And this also explains why we know and can give detail about
the surroundings and look like we are not paying attention. Asperger mentions,
autistics can drift out of interaction. Once we are done, we are done. Remember
me saying, I will just leave. Family gatherings and such and making a joke
like, the gathering will gather without me. Tone within speech is in question
with autistics. This is a component of speech and language. It is a method of
conveyance. Asperger highlights, autistic intelligence. A highlight Asperger
mentions is the original ideas autistic children possess. This explains the
advanced language scene for certain topics and interests of those autistic
children, meaning it was present at times and other times it was massively
deficient. This is Asperger's little professors. This is my favorite part of
all of autism. This is the result of that B3 symptom that we discuss so often.
This is the creative and intellectual and thinking and pitchers attempted to be
transformed into abstract language and conveyed to the receiver. Maybe Asperger's
and lower level level one autism is simply a human creation based on those
set of ideas expressed and developed by a collection of others attempting to
show or express a delta from social norms. Humans love to do this. We love to
subordinate and identify, subject, define differences. Maybe Asperger's and level
one are simply just acceptable and fine normal phenotypes with slight differences
that are not abnormal or a disorder. And if not in a modern created world, if you
take this phenotype across the lifespan, across evolution, will simply fit in. But
maybe modern humans do this way too much. Maybe Michelangelo or maybe it was
Einstein and Da Vinci, Henry David Thoreau or Sir Isaac Newton. Maybe these
people had this autistic phenotype. This is not me saying they were autistic and
trying to claim them and group them in. I'm not into this group in group out.
Or this type of movement. I'm simply saying that just phenotype that we're
describing here today is perfectly acceptable. It is a path for those
superpowers that once again we're just defining. If you are listening to the
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