Predicting Overload: Autism Spectrum Disorder | Paul Fijal | TEDxEastVan

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  @OldHagslore · 10 years ago

  The thing people always seem to forget is that autistic children become autistic adults yet people do not have the same understanding and patience for adults as they do children.

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  @bookbunny9 · 5 years ago

  In all such talks of autistic people given by non-autistic people, when the presenter addresses the audience, they never say, "Or some of you here tonight may be autistic." I think that's pretty telling.

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  @junehanabi1756 · 6 years ago

  A lot of this information is based on pre 2013 research. The cortex thing is also more complicated. There can exist a large percent of people that exhibit higher cortex and executive functioning traits but that are in fact deeply autistic. In other words that are simultaneously at both ends of the spectrum and don't have most of the executive functioning issues that were considered "traditional" to autism. This is why autism was renamed to ASD in 2013 and why the concepts like "traditional", "high functioning" and "low functioning" were removed because there was no way to define them and too many people that either got mis-diagnosed or not diagnosed all-together due to these outdated beliefs.

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  @vocalsunleashed · 9 years ago

  Six and a half years ago I asked a teacher at my (special needs) school what she saw when she looked at a tree. She said she saw a tree. So then I told her, "Well I see a stam, lots of branches and a huge amount of leaves." She had asked me how the eye for detail thing works. It's just amazing to me how she was, while purposely trying to see what I see, not even experiencing the amount of censory overload that I get when my brain does that automatically. I mean it's not like I get to choose to turn it off. But it is also very useful. For instance when something falls to the ground. All my senses are "overly" sensitive too so I hear almost exactly where it fell and with the eye for detail it is found in a couple of seconds. Though it does not always go that way. Anyway, what I wanted to say (yay for the distracted mind) is that I used the exact same reference as you. I have Aspergers' Syndrome.

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  @lschisel · 4 years ago

  Late diagnosed female 49. Had meltdown yesterday. This explained so much. Highly functioning and ADHD

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  @weignerg · 4 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdvFuVAypp0&amp;t=200">3:20</a> thank you for sharing that in this way.<br>I hope it comes across to people the stress that is induced by what seems normal to most people.

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  @777Stormyweathers · 7 years ago

  I suspect Paul didn&apos;t think this through. &nbsp;The last thing a kid with highly unusual traits needs is a device attached to him that tells his mother what his emotional state is. &nbsp;In a lot of ways, the only real defense I have against a neurotypical world is the privacy of my own mind. &nbsp;I&apos;d rather be forced into a dog-collar and a leash than be strapped to a device like this.

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  @bobca2 · 8 years ago

  As The Great Grey so eloquently reminds us, many of us do, or in my case did a long time ago, grow up to be autistic adults. Some of us, like me, have not been aware of that until we are pretty old...in my case in my 60&apos;s.

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  @ThePatrick42044 · 4 years ago

  I have HFA and I&apos;m 43. Was only diagnosed last summer at age 42.

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  @pasik8884 · 6 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdvFuVAypp0&amp;t=247">4:07</a> - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdvFuVAypp0&amp;t=415">6:55</a> <br><br>An interesting difference between Autistic brain and normal brains and how it causes each other individuals to see the world differently. <br><br>Autistic brain is more details focused and it focuses on every single data and information and process them to understand the bigger picture like how everything is interconnected together to work like in a system while neurotypical brain is not sharply details focused as same as Autistic brain and it subconsciously filters extra information and only focus on the generalized concept instead of focusing on every single data and information and systemizing them to a single framework. <br><br>Things like emotions, social rules, manners actually cannot be systemized, they change every time according to the situation. This is the reason why Autistic people struggle so much at understanding other people&apos;s emotions, social rules, manners....etc.

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  @clairebessel4298 · 6 years ago (edited)

  I think this has some potentially useful info in it but unfortunately it reinforces us and them mentality and told from the point of view of &apos;us&apos;. I was hoping for more nuance and recognition of spectrum and individuality rather than relying on clichés of high functioning/low functioning/instiutionalized. the helper/helpless.

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  @BushmansAdventures · 9 years ago

  what you described is my life. Thank You. God Bless You Thank You.

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