[Boowhoknew]

perhaps...but

[E. Pluribus Unum]

We are all victims now.

[CJ Wolf]

Some autist are very smart.

[Albion Wilde]

I can relate.

[DannyTN]

My daughter scored 35 and went to a private college on full tuition scholarship. In her senior year at college, she had a task that should have taken her 30 minutes and it took her 7.5 hours. And she came to me and said, “I think I have ADHD, and want to get tested.”

So we got her tested. And yes, she has ADHD. She’s taking some medication that she says helps tremendously.

I bought a ton of books on ADHD to figure out how to help her. The symptoms of ADHD vary by person and there is a long list of symptoms. It’s kind of like a horoscope. Almost anyone can find something in the list.

But I had about half of them. And it would explain a lot about my life. I haven’t been tested, but I am trying a drug that might help. And I have some supplements that might help.

[Psalm 73]

Our daughter (20) is high-functioning Autistic, but not high enough for independent living.

A few years ago my wife finally noticed many parallels between our daughter and her own adolescence - yup, she's autistic.

Amazing she navigated through life for 64 years (just barely, but survive she did).

[the OlLine Rebel]

Should be obvious. After all, theyve been pushing “spectrum” for decades and we all must be on it.

[Pollard]

While he welcomes the more accurate picture, he doesn’t want the new numbers to dilute the understanding of what it means to be autistic. “It’s a medical diagnosis and you only get it if the symptoms you have are causing distress,” he points out.

That would be my son burning his mouth on his favorite comfort food, yellow rice, to the point of shuddering because it's burning his mouth and then taking another bite right away and shuddering from the pain again but not recognizing it's pain or his thoughts of the comfort food overriding his common sense or sens of pain. I have no idea how it works. That was in his mid teens.

The wife and I are separated now and he's 20 and lives with me. Daughter lives with her. They came by a few weeks ago and he looked out the window and started pointing. I said, what? He got panicky, pointed some more and finally managed to spit out "people". He was a bit excited I'd say.

[piasa]

Used to be called shyness.

[Ezekiel]

“I’ve always been fascinated by research, by detail, by finding out everything there is to find out about something,” he says. “So I did a really deep dive.”

Re the Torah:

21
Ben Bag Bag would say: Delve and delve into it, for all is in it; see with it; grow old and worn in it; do not budge from it, for there is nothing better.

Ben Hei Hei would say: According to the pain is the gain.

Pirkei Avot Chapter 5

John 4:29 Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?

Truly, a man on the spectrum:

"Specifically, a range of colours representing light (electromagnetic radiation) of contiguous frequencies; hence electromagnetic spectrum, visible spectrum, ultraviolet spectrum, etc."

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The world sees something to fix, or eliminate. I see

Mathematical Beauty

I was reading about the traits of an autistic person, the difficulties they often have in social situations, the need for order and planning:

38 And Pharaoh said unto his servants: 'Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom the spirit of God is?'

[hoagy62]

Nowadays, they call it being ‘neurodivergent. Those that aren’t are called ‘neuronormative’. I’ve always strived to be considered ‘normal’...but I know I’m not. It sucks.

[NorthMountain]

I’m very glad not to be a child in today’s environment of pseudo-therapeutic madness. They’d “diagnose” me with some made-up nonsense and ruin my life.

[Magnatron]

Our youngest has been diagnosed with mild autism. Weirdly, of my three children, I see myself the most in him. We didn’t have the name “autism” when I was growing up, but I remember the same challenges. I grew out of most of it, and I hope he does too.

That said, I do believe the prevalence these days of autism is mostly related to the heavily increased use of anti-depressants in women.

Of course, pharma companies are sacrosanct, so we won’t be seeing any studies to prove out this theory any time soon. Keeping women drugged is big dollar business…

[Hootowl]

Very late in life I found I had ADHD. Explained a lot.

[Grampa Dave]

It is amazing how all 3 these similar yet different diagnosis can run through a family.

We knew the parents of 3 adult children with 3 distinct differences.

One son/family member was and is a genius when it comes solving complex math problems. He has started 2 successful Silicon Valley businesses. He has zero personality and is turned off by most people and his family.

His younger brother is a role model for Asperger’s and drives away most people due to his lack of verbal control.

A sister in between these two is the village idiot except for math. She is a savant idiot with math.

Both parents were MDs, good docs and good with people. Their Dad used to ask our pastor and others, “What the heck happened!”

[FalloutShelterGirl]

Why is autism treated as the abnormal state? Maybe the highly detailed, focused people are the normal state and all the ones stuffing themselves with cheetos while watching netflix and scrolling facebook and never giving a critical though to anything are the abnormal ones?

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

‘A Lot Fell Into Place’: The Adults Who Discovered They Were Autistic—After Their Child Was Diagnosed
8/27/2022, 8:48:58 PM · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 43 replies

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4088849/posts

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

So, there appears to be a possible genetic link ?
or, perhaps a genetic predisposition ?

[9YearLurker]

It used to be known as your personality—with an understanding that many people feel uncomfortable in social situations and that they somehow don’t “fit in”.