1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:09,900 I want to talk about some more of the autism in education, but also spending it out to 2 00:00:09,900 --> 00:00:19,620 growth and opportunity and being evaluated with different options based off of the autistic 3 00:00:19,620 --> 00:00:24,740 phenotype. 4 00:00:24,740 --> 00:00:31,640 Students love to judge others, they are constantly evaluating others. 5 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:40,120 And then we have this kind of innate construction of how others should be. 6 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:48,200 What they need to do, what they can and cannot do, it should do, and so forth. 7 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:57,460 And growing up in school, and school is a big one here because the amount of time children 8 00:00:57,460 --> 00:01:05,160 through the teenage years are in school and they have a lot of influences. 9 00:01:05,160 --> 00:01:13,160 They have a lot of people telling them, rather, kind of trying to build them up, live with 10 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:22,400 their kowski style. 11 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:33,320 When people are viewing the autistic phenotype especially, they have a lot of opinions because 12 00:01:33,320 --> 00:01:38,160 it goes back to can you fit in or not? 13 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:42,280 And are you like the so-called normal people or not? 14 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:54,480 And this is big because the other can get a little bit of conflict there because of 15 00:01:54,480 --> 00:02:04,360 when other people are not in that construction that they've built up. 16 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:17,520 Be it an educator or a parent, friend, family, therapy worker, whatever the case, stranger. 17 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:28,480 Whenever they are met with the autistic phenotype, there's a lot of conflict for the other person. 18 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:34,080 Maybe not so much anymore, but especially in the 90s whenever I went through high school. 19 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:36,680 And I think still today. 20 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:42,880 I think it's still today. 21 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:49,640 We are constantly being kind of shadowed into this construction that others built up, the 22 00:02:49,640 --> 00:02:52,560 social norms that people built up. 23 00:02:52,560 --> 00:03:00,240 And because we are forced into that, it causes a lot of conflict for the autistic phenotype. 24 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:11,600 Maybe not even understood by society what this is doing. 25 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:26,320 And instead of understanding the autistic phenotype, instead we're kind of forced into 26 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:35,120 this construction that is just completely in contrast of what we can do, what we even 27 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:37,120 enjoy and want to do. 28 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:42,840 Two different things there. 29 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:53,160 And something that is a big problem because of the education in the time. 30 00:03:53,160 --> 00:04:01,400 These aren't utilized, they're not developed into their specific phenotype. 31 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:08,680 They're developed because of the background and understanding of both the education system 32 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:11,320 and their education. 33 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:18,400 But also the specific construction of that specific person. 34 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:25,400 That specific person from the outside viewing in has this construction of what others should 35 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:27,960 be like. 36 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:37,880 And whenever this happens, the other person, because this is what humans do, we will speak. 37 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:42,280 And what we are trying to accomplish, what they are trying to accomplish by speaking 38 00:04:42,280 --> 00:04:49,560 is to calm them because they are observing something that is not within their realm of 39 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:54,480 this construction. 40 00:04:54,480 --> 00:05:00,640 So they will speak to the autistic person or anybody, it's not limited to autism. 41 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:05,760 They will speak to this other person about you can't do that, you shouldn't do that, 42 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:09,480 you have to do this, you have to fit into this. 43 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:13,680 And that's a bad situation. 44 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:26,000 For the autistic phenotype, it's limiting the growth and the abilities. 45 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:28,560 I think this is still a problem. 46 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:32,160 This was a huge problem for me. 47 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:39,200 Education from the previous episodes, about the B3 especially, the 45, 50 minutes in 48 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:46,880 this subject and then change, 45, 50 minutes in this subject and change. 49 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:51,800 And you're just repeating that all day, every day. 50 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:53,600 It's not working. 51 00:05:53,600 --> 00:06:00,200 The only thing that I could do in high school is art class. 52 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:05,880 And it helped that I enjoyed it and I could do it, but it was just me. 53 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:15,160 And whatever was going on, and I could express it for 45, 50 minutes, whatever the case. 54 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:21,440 All other classes, I could not keep up, especially by the time of high school. 55 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:24,720 I was so far lost. 56 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:30,840 The only reason I graduated high school is because a newer male teacher changed an F 57 00:06:30,840 --> 00:06:36,200 to a D minus the second semester of my senior year within the last week or so. 58 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:39,800 I covered that in the Autism and Education episode. 59 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:44,040 I was so far gone, I was just ready to move on. 60 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:52,360 And that really prevented a lot of different opportunities going into young adult and middle 61 00:06:52,360 --> 00:07:01,320 adult even until I could really control my environment better. 62 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:08,240 And it's not that I didn't want to do other things. 63 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:10,600 We covered the neuroplasticity as well. 64 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:14,440 We built up these memories and these expectations. 65 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:18,280 Learning and memory builds rules based off of the expectation. 66 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:22,680 How are we going to navigate society? 67 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:26,800 Based off of these, we have internal calculators. 68 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:31,800 They're predicting values. 69 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:35,840 That's a formal basis of the brain. 70 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:37,760 It's predicting. 71 00:07:37,760 --> 00:07:44,760 Learning and predicting. 72 00:07:44,760 --> 00:08:01,640 Whenever autistics are navigating this social world and the tendency, the human nature aspect 73 00:08:01,640 --> 00:08:11,920 of other people forcing even directly or indirectly, they probably don't even know. 74 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:15,560 This is because it's so innate. 75 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:20,720 Humans force other people into this facade construction. 76 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:29,120 And it's very harmful. 77 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:38,920 Still in 2024, education has not evolved to fit this. 78 00:08:38,920 --> 00:08:42,080 Education is a large, not so much either. 79 00:08:42,080 --> 00:09:01,560 But if we zoom into a specific setting, the education setting, then we can evaluate this. 80 00:09:01,560 --> 00:09:08,440 How to educate other people, especially the ones in the role that interact. 81 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:11,640 And this is their objective. 82 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:23,680 How to teach that, that even at large, removing autism out of it, how to teach them that you 83 00:09:23,680 --> 00:09:30,440 are evaluating this based off of this construction that you've created. 84 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:37,360 And if somebody is not in line with that, you are going to have massive amounts of conflict 85 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:44,800 and you are going to inject yourself into it to try to settle this because that settles 86 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:46,720 you. 87 00:09:46,720 --> 00:10:02,400 That is how the nervous system works. 88 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:12,080 I just see all of these people trying to help. 89 00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:15,640 And I'm not saying their spirit is not there. 90 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:26,000 I'm just thinking that their ability is lacking. 91 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:34,240 And I'm not taking shots at other people here. 92 00:10:34,240 --> 00:10:42,600 But what is happening is not working. 93 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:50,640 Understand the autistic phenotype and nurture it. 94 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:53,240 There are roles in society. 95 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:57,240 There are roles for the autistic phenotype that can strive. 96 00:10:57,240 --> 00:11:06,600 The idea of superpowers versus super deficits, sometimes it's complicated based off of the 97 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:09,880 severity of the autistic. 98 00:11:09,880 --> 00:11:23,120 But even severe autistics likely have an ability to do things that are really great. 99 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:30,320 Kind of keeping everybody boxed into this construction. 100 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:56,280 So the specific phenotype, based off of the specific phenotype.