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I want to expand on the supplementing relationships
and autism concept. For today's episode, I want
to talk about the dialogue or monologue happening
with these thinking and pictures and movies being
created in the imagination. This dialogue is
very real like. I can do this as I am interacting
with the others in my imagination. Visual movie
creation and the others respond and carry on
the conversation. And I can do this without me
in the imagination, just the others. This is
a huge accelerator for the supplementing relationships.
This is extremely real life. Before we get into
my experience, let's recap the history of autism.
Remember autism comes from autos, which translates
into self. And remember, autism was first associated
with intense, dreamlike states, originally mentioned
by Eugen Blüthler in the early 1900s, 1910, 1911
time. This was especially true for childlike
schizophrenia. Remember the closeness of schizophrenia
and autism, canner in large part. gut autism
shifted out of schizophrenia, and this happened
in the late 1950s. Schizophrenia has a spectrum
of visual and audio hallucinations, delusions,
disorganized speech, and motor control. So, of
course, speech and language and motor control
also shared phenotypes. The main difference is
the intensity. So Kanner and Asperger, too overlooked.
Their work is too underrated and neglected. They
both highlighted self -directed communication.
Self -monologue with no intent to the environment,
no regard of or to others and preferred. to be
isolated, withdrew from society when possible,
and when forced, behaviors, problems, so forth
exist. Remember me saying the outside world is
complicated, chaotic, and uninteresting. To add,
all autistics 100 % have some sort of speech
and language. or said better, language and speech
problem. So again, again and again, in time,
the combination of our biology, the lack of socialness
through our life, and the bad memories and examples
of socialness, more and more propensity to remain
isolated is a factor. See the autism and speech
and language episode Every time I call it speech
and language I want to reverse it, but I have
learned to hit a break on that I hope and think
you get it speech and language is not the process
language then speech Seems appropriate Okay,
so some of the canner information canner data
Canners take on this phenomena is. He said the
kid's speech wasn't meant to reach others. It
was not meant to convey meaning, but served their
own internal needs like a private rhythm or self
-soothing tool. It's like they were having a
conversation with themselves, not expecting or
wanting a listener. The monologue likes speech
patterns. Kenner described this as kind of like
narrating their own thoughts out loud I've talked
about how as Excitation kinds of builds up and
I'm in my head and that all that energy is happening.
I can start to Increase my motor movements pacing
and so forth Stereotypy movements moving my lips
and then eventually speaking out loud An example
of Kanner is Charles. He would mutter short sentences
about objects he was fixated on. Like the train
goes fast while playing alone. It wasn't directed
at anyone. It was as if he was verbalizing to
make sense of his world. Kanner also observed
that these monologues could go on for long stretches,
especially when the kids were absorbed repetitive
activities like lining up toys the speech felt
like a running commentary for themselves not
a call for someone else to join in no regard
for the others in the environment and Kenner
emphasized that this self -directed speech was
a core part of the kids autistic aloneness he
described how they would talk during solitary
play, often in a low voice, as if the act of
speaking was enough and no response was expected.
He noted that some kids would even repeat entire
conversations they'd overheard, but not to engage
anyone, just to replay the words in their imagination.
Asperger also captured some of this. Asperger
captured monologues on the obsessions. He was
fascinated by how kids would launch into long
detailed monologues to themselves about their
favorite topic, completely absorbed in their
own words and imagination. Fritz would go into
mathematical problems and patterns and constellations
for a long bout. just this imaginary world, and
he would do this alone. Harrow would talk endlessly
about tram routes and speaking all of their stops
in order in a very rhythmic way. Asperger thought
this monologue was for the own kid's satisfaction.
Again, no expectation for communication to others.
Asperger, I just love the Asperger's little professors,
and Asperger captured this lecture -like academic
delivery of these kids. He thought the kids spoke
in a formal academic style about their interest,
but it was still all to themselves. It was for
their own satisfaction. Ernst would talk about
chemical formulas like he was giving a lecture.
Asperger noted it was a performance for his own
enjoyment. No expectation, no conveyance to others.
He'd go on for minutes structuring his thoughts
out loud, completely focused on himself and his
imagination. Asperger saw this self -directed
speech as tied to the kid's intellectual strengths.
I call it I consider it, I should say, a source
of accelerated learning. We're speaking to ourselves.
We're professing to ourselves. This is absolutely
true. This is part of that autistic intelligence.
Now, the majority of the Asperger's paper in
1944 highlights autistic intelligence. Talking
out loud was a way to process complex thoughts.
and kind of accelerate these passions. He described
kids muttering during the solitary activities
while being alone for long periods of time. So
what I do, within a few minutes of waking, my
brain starts to kind of build up that energy
as I recently just mentioned, almost like it
is entering a gate into this imaginary world.
And within 10 to 15 minutes, I am fixed on a
topic. It could be something I am learning, or
it could be something about these supplementing
relationships. It could be something in kind
of a cortical loop, just something stuck in my
head even. As you listen, I want you to consider
how, much noise in the background, other people
coming into my existence, trying to talk. to
me implicates the internal world. This external
conveyance, this dialogue with others really
penetrates and disrupts this imagination. Remember
the listening dissonance from a conversation
about the medial prefrontal cortex. Listening
dissonance. A part of the prefrontal that is
leading adaptive responses is the medial prefrontal
cortex. And listening dissonance is a big disruption,
a big interference, and a common phenomena with
autistics. It is a conundrum for us. Previously
I talked about those vivid and reliable movies
coming online. This is happening fast, 10 -15
minutes after waking. Now we need to have the
conversations. Regardless of the context of my
thoughts of those movies, I will have self -directed
communication. This ratchets us up as I wake
up and it will go into a lot of brain energy,
the pacing and their stereotypy movements, and
even I can speak out loud. Definitely move my
lips during silent speaking. I can feel myself
doing this. I've learned to catch myself. I've
never really known that before until a few years
ago even. These conversations are real and I
know these are a component of that accelerated
learning, this undisputed to me. When it consists
of this supplementing relationships, There's
back and forth going on in my imagination. They
are frequent. And here is something to consider.
I suspect I can have these internal conversations
as much as sociable or so -called extroverted
people have in a day. But it is not just me having
this monologue. These conversations. Remember
the previous episode on this? I see the others
and they are having conversations with their
own relationships. All imagined. All very vivid
and real. Movie -like. Now this example, I guess
the dialogue at this point, doesn't happen often.
Mostly other people, the imagination with others.
Plural. whenever I see other people kind of conducting
their life, living their life, without me in
it. These are mostly visual, without the talking.
However, it doesn't necessarily mean that's always
true. Sometimes they will have conversations
back and forth with each other. This conversation
piece is a huge part of the supplementing. This
is it. between that and the amount of it that's
probably comparable to extroverts. That's the
relationship. That's our source of relationship.
Now also imagine the amount of the internal socialness
and then we are expected to conduct real conversations
on top of that in addition to that. That's a
lot. With everything I've mentioned Go see the
translation of autism. I want to add, this internal
monologue does not have speech and language problems.
Okay, I really want to highlight that because
autistics have different speech and language
problems. But during this internal monologue,
when speaking to the self, it doesn't happen.
I have been like this as far as I can remember.
My earliest memory is four years old, maybe some
parts of three years old and I know I was this
age because where we lived, my mom and I lived.
I can take you on a tour of the trailer we rented
from the house on the hill across from the old
GE factory. Then we moved to the house that she
still lives in and I have vivid memories of still
living in that trailer. But the supplementing
relationships phenomena with the seeing others
and seeing me interact with others Just having
these movies playing in my head and then the
conversations. This is real life. It's real life
like and the consideration of kind of Supplementing
these relationships and then expecting to had
have real conversations and relationships is
very challenging. The internal, the imagination,
we can predict those. There's no kind of environmental
or external insults happening. And I think that's
a very safe and predictable area for us to navigate.
Plus, we can kind of dictate sometimes. Not all.
We can kind of dictate when we can socialize,
which is not a very predictable thing in reality.
This allows us to understand and prepare and
enjoy our restricted, fixated interests that
are abnormal in intensity or focus in our dreamlike
internal world. If you're listening to the podcast,
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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
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