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we will expand on the Autism and Relationships
episode. We will cover a unique phenomena, mostly
or completely, tied to visual thinking, sometimes
called thinking, and pictures. This will include
the social world, the unique and great complexities
and challenges with this. It will also include
some sensory processing, how extracting data
from the outside world is difficult. It is fast
and largely involve social norms. Social norms
are created. by the culture, the norms of the
so -called normal people, the way people are
expected to act, and even say how they talk.
Later I will have tremendous insight in the why
of social norms. This will be necessary and an
important consideration for all. For today's
episode, We will cover supplementing relationships.
It is easy to understand autistics don't have
many social relationships. Socialness is hard.
We are not influenced or biased to the outside
world, to the environment. Hard stop covered
in the canner paper. the Kenner episode. And
with Asperger's, the lack of social attention
and influence was the primary reason the Kenner
kids and Asperger kids, sometimes called Asperger's
little professors, were taken to see them. This
was the number one complaint or concern by the
parents. The parents were so concerned the kids
had no social motivation. no social interaction,
had poor social skills, but instead, they fixated
to their internal world. You might have heard
me say this in earlier episodes, especially covering
criteria A, the social communication and interaction,
so -called symptoms. The outside world is chaotic.
It is less interesting. You are not as entertaining
as our internal world. You also might not know,
autism means autos, which translates into self.
Many people don't know that, or don't care to
know that. Self, the deep, internal world. Remember
when autism was first used as scientist coined.
They love this stuff. It helps solidify their
presence in their field in history. The so -called
coining of terms. Often catchy catchphrases or
buzzwords. However, autism was first used to
describe intense dreamlike states. deep internal
presence associated with schizophrenia. A strong
connection between both schizophrenia and autism
occurred from 1911 or so to 1959. Leo Kanner
helped break those apart. See the Understanding
the Rates of Autism episode from last summer
last July. and the message from the Kanner episode
last fall. From Erwin Schrodinger, the Nobel
winner, the quantum physicist, Schrodinger said,
Kanner thought what nobody has yet thought about
that which everybody sees. You cannot see our
thinking style. You can only guess. So staying
within the self, that deep internal world, those
dream -like states. In large part, this occurs
because seeing movies and thoughts. Or said differently,
thoughts turn into pictures and into movies.
How can you not know what autism translates into?
The origins, the real meaning. A key and underrated
consideration of the lack of attention and influence
to the environment is the mesencephalon, the
midbrain. Their hidden data and consideration
to the autistic phenotype is within the mesencephalon.
See previous episodes covering neural relation
in this time of the embryo, embryogenesis, when
our central nervous system is developed. Remember
the three main goals of the mesencephalon and
remember autistic phenotypes here. Think about
autistics whenever I say these. The three main
goals of the mesencephalon is one, movement and
motor control. Two, sensory integration. Three,
biasing the attention of the living organism
to the outside world. With that, a question not
answered is, does the poor social skills come
from the lack of practice or is it already created
because of areas like the mesencephalon? I don't
know. All I know is socialness is challenging
and the rate of information coming in, especially
through the sensory organs that go to the mesencephalon,
is fast. See Part 2 of the Sensory Processing
episode. Then things like expectation, interruption,
speech and language complications, being made
fun of, constantly corrected, or being told how
to act, etc. Those neuroplasticity and expectations.
Rules apply and build up. This creates less social
motivation. Okay, so the social norms. Social
norms are created so that we act in a way that
we can better predict the other person or the
other people. We do this because we are prediction
machines. We've covered how the brain is a prediction
machine and how it is a metabolic bank accountant.
So just imagine this for a second. When we are
in the social world, when we are predictable,
when we are following the social norms and sticking
to those, the other people involved will be more
at ease. And we can better predict them. So simple.
See, Lisa Feldman Barrett on this. In addition,
or better yet, in contrast, to that social norms
are trying to make us into something that we
are not. Don't try to make me like you. Those
social norms are powerful because if we are all
acting in a way that makes sense to us, we can
anticipate and predict. It is very, very calming
to us. Remember the metabolic bank accounting
as well. So to this point, it is mostly a foundation
of socialness, how humans act in the social world,
and some considerations of the Autistic Phenotype.
So how does the Autistic Phenotype, at least
in my experiences, learning and consideration
supplement relationships? Remember the episode
with JD Barker from last fall. the highly prolific
author. He writes many, many novels. He was sharing
with us how he creates characters, and those
characters come to life in his mind, in his thoughts,
and he can see them. And then he works diligently
with his strict routine that he shared with us
about his writing, and he puts these characters
that he creates into his novels. Remember whenever
he was talking about the prequel to Dracula?
Whenever he was tasked to write the prequel,
Dracula. He was unable to discriminate his writings
from Bram Stroker's writings. And they were all
blended together and he was creating those in
a movie, in his mind. This is what I'm talking
about here. This is why it's so entertaining,
one. And the second thing is why the outside
world being so chaotic and sticking to the social
norms and the strangeness of everything is not
going to grab our attention. So you have the
sensory processing phenomena, which makes it
hard, and then the internal world that makes
us just stay within our mind. This is the root
of the intense and preferred learning bouts.
How we can just become so -called Asperger's
Little Professors. And remember Temple Grandin
explaining the autistic brain. See her books
One Thinking and Pictures, Two Visual Thinkers,
and Three The Autistic Brain. She covers this.
Remember explaining whenever I explained, Temple
Grandin says, The autistic brain is like AI.
We build up categories and catalogs based off
of imaging and these pictures that we see in
our head. And then we can formulate these things.
You can just search her, search different podcasts
she's been on or speeches, talks, and she can
explain this or read the books or the audio books,
whatever. Her episode with Jordan Peterson. is
pretty worthy. So visual thinking is involved.
It is the driver to this. Remember the canner
kids, despite not appearing to be paying attention
to what was happening in the environment. They
knew a lot about the environment. This is a factor
because supplementing relationships can be done
with people we have encountered to any degree.
from a brief interaction to not even speaking
to them just seeing them in public to people
that we know quite well or we see frequently
it doesn't matter we can do this with all all
forms of the relationships in other words I can
piece together and see their life in my visual
thinking their life comes to life in my mind
and plays out like a movie in my head. And it
is reliable. I can get bits of data about someone
and create their life. As future encounters occur,
if they do, I can add to that data. I can confirm
and correct what I've created. Remember the AI
I mentioned just previously. This is what we're
doing. We're building up this catalog. The bizarre
part, you have no way, no way of validating this,
but usually what is created later comes to be
true. These movies about other people, sometimes
I am in them and sometimes not. It's not necessary.
They are real. This replaces the lack of socialness.
It indeed supplements the real social interaction.
I can see other people's lives as they are living
their life. And this is mostly outside of the
environment they or we are in. For example, if
I see someone out and I create this movie about
them, either instantly, soon after, or even much
later, it is not just in that environment. Rarely
is it. In addition, it is not uncommon that I
see them doing any of life's aspects, anything
that their daily routine or weekly routine, just
normal daily activities that human beings do.
I will see everything. Meaning things I don't
want to see. I don't want those happening. This
has no limits. And when it navigates to that
point, it can be hard to shift or turn off. Most
of my human interaction occurs here. I supplement
this. If we zoom out and we think about the so
-called extroverts and the introverts and how
much social motivation and desires and so forth
that each of us have, it's a big spectrum. This
is a great use of the word spectrum for once.
When I do this, I am getting my social desires,
that social interaction with others fulfilled
here. This is real. There is no other need to
continue the social interaction because I can
do it here within my own mind, my own creation.
And you cannot see this. You cannot understand
this. You can only guess. If you're listening
to the podcast or listening to the episode, please
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you for listening to From the Spectrum Podcast.
I would like to take a moment and mention a pressing
issue we are seeing. in our modern world. And
that is tech use and tech light. The data are
impressive and concerning on isolated wavelengths
of light, especially shorter wavelengths, which
is blue light. For those that don't know, we
have chromophores. which are special proteins
that absorbs specific wavelengths of light. For
blue light, the light that is LED light and tech
light, that protein is called melanopsin. Melanopsin
is responsible for our circadian biology, physiology
and cell functioning, hormone regulation, and
even a connection to an area huge for mood. A
consideration we should include is this protein
was not even discovered until 1998. It seems
important for us to understand how our biology
uses the different wavelengths of light for various
aspects of our biology. This blue light chromophore
is our master controller. Our master clock. Remember,
circadian rhythm is a two -part process. Two
independent parts. Light and dark. For a quick
reference, see the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology
and Medicine. But for now, I have something exciting.
I want to introduce a product. unlike any other
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no flicker. Short wavelength flicker is extremely
harmful for our eyes and downstream biology.
light flicker is constantly turning our central
nervous system on and off. Essentially, it is
like going to a light switch and repeatedly turning
it on and off. The problem is blue light and
LED light does this and it is so rapid you cannot
even perceive this in real time. The daylight
computer is the lowest stimulation and foremost
for sensory sensitive users. It is no question
that the alternative product especially when
used at night do not address or consider this
in their product. It is so toxic to human biology.
Big tech corporations have patents on how their
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