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Autistic people are far more inwardly focused than outwardly. We’re obsessed with our weird obsessions. We spend endless hours thinking about them and imagining them. What if, we could harness all of that imagining and make it somehow productive in the world. What if it were an asset in the workplace or classroom?
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Well, looks like PDA has mucked up the plans of Ye Olde Blogge, AGAIN. Luckily, it did it during Autism Month, so here’s one more of the Autism series and how freezing in the face of stress and anxiety can really derail things.
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Who knew that people with autism would also have a difficult time recognizing faces? And, who knew that if you could help them recognize faces, then their social ineptitude would improve? Well, no one knew that, but it might could happen…
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The rates of diagnosis for autism have been exploding! What explains this phenomenon? There are several possibilities, but in the end, does it really matter?
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It’s April! And, I’m no fool cuz I know that it is Autism Appreciation Month! We start out this year by sorting out the confusing array of combinations of times (day, week, month) and designators (awareness, acceptance, appreciation).
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There is a truism in neurological functioning: use it or lose it! Hubel and Wiesel demonstrated this when they sewed the eyes of kittens shut; autistic people when they don’t learn social perceptions.
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One of the fundamental differences between a person with autism and a neurotypical person is that the autie has a rich inner world that is much preferred to the drab and dreary outer one. It makes the world of the neurotypical barely tolerable.
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Ye Olde Blogge has big plans for celebrating #AutismAcceptanceMonth! Join us for our weekly autism blog post exploring people with autism and accommodations that we can all understand and embrace. #Autism #AutismApril
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My PDA daughter did a thing. She made a podcast on being a PDA’er in school for a school assignment. As it turns out most of the accommodations that schools make are more for their sake than the PDA’er.
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Are you ready for some anecdotes about my hard-assed mother? This post has ’em! Are you ready for some child-rearing words of wisdom? This post has ’em! Are you ready for some solid info on qualified immunity? This post has it! Are you ready for some hard truths about policing in America? This post has ’em! Are you ready to call YOUR senators about the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act? This post is!
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Part of the issue of autism is the use of interpersonal emotions. Autistic people don’t use them well. They have emotions, but understand their role in communication. But, there is a role of intrapersonal emotions in the meltdowns that autistic people and people with pathological demand avoidance have because we rely on our emotional reactions to make decisions.
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April is Autism Awareness Month in the US. Here at Ye Olde Blogge, we do our part by posting what it is like being autistic and other insights that we have gathered over the years. Here’s an introduction and advice on how to handle friends, neighbors, and co-workers who are autistic or those who are having trouble accepting people with autism.
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Happy end of Autism Awareness Month! It looks like Zoom meetings are the great equalizer for us socially awkward autistics! With all the clumsy talking over one another, uncertainty about what to say when, doubt about what to do with your hands, questioning whether you’re lack of grooming will be noticed are all part of the everyday existence of many high-functioning autistic people. Now, we can all enjoy them!
Dopamine is the neurotransmitter that motivates us to pursue things we think will be pleasurable. It keeps us feeding at the trough. If the mesolimbic dopamine system is broken, we are not motivated to do anything. Could it be one of the drivers of Pathological Demand Avoidance?
I’ve been struggling to write something about Autism Awareness Month for a while. It is too wrapped up with grieving my mother and sister. So, here’s a short revelatory self-pitying piece about my messy autistic life.
In “Out of the Autistic Closet,” I recounted my experiences with autism and opined that it was a disorder of prediction. This article supports that approach.
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