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Right Peeps, this squirrel is shagged! So off to bed to read some more on ASD .

Shout out to @VulcanTourist , you can come out now , peace brother! 🫶

Shout out to the overnight peeps too, have a great day you lot 😁

#GoodNight, sleep tight & remember bedbugs love a cuddle at night 😜

😊🫶🐿️🖖

@MaJ1

@dramypsyd

Have you heard of this excellent theory/paper?

"The Intense World Theory – a unifying theory of the
neurobiology of autism
Kamila Markram* and Henry Markram
Laboratory of Neural Microcircuits, Brain Mind Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland"

(2010).

I got this recommended by a researcher in Scotland who has several family members with ADHD or autism.

frontiersin.org/articles/10.33

@VulcanTourist

@HistoPol @MaJ1

spectrumnews.org/opinion/viewp

Read about just exactly how they reached those conclusions. TL;DR: it's a stretch, to say the least. It confirms biases for a lot of people, though, which is why it's so appealing.

Spectrum | Autism Research News · Intense world theory raises intense worriesBy Anna Remington

@VulcanTourist

I had been looking for more recent research on the , so thank you.

As your linked article states, autism research is progressing quickly. 2014 is not all that recent either.

Is anyone aware of scientifically solid new research from the last 5 years?

@MaJ1

@HistoPol @MaJ1

Well @HistoPol, I've been trying to nudge my friend for several days into sharing some information with you, but he has unexpectedly been more reluctant than I anticipated and seems very unlikely to be creating a Mastodon account to facilitate it.

The best I could get out of him was specific mention of Peter Vermeulen and one or more of his books. The originals may not be in English, so you might have to wait for translations. Searching for those might be a next step.

@VulcanTourist

(1/2)

I really appreciate you doing so. Tim @MaJ1 is not the only one among my contacts who has been late diagnosed with /#autism or some other within my contacts or their relatives here during the last year. In fact, my not small "sample" of contacts is so skewed towards neurodivergence that I have begun to wonder whether there might be so many more instances in ral life where people simply don't know of or share their condition.
(And Tim didn't know...

@HistoPol @MaJ1

When I was younger and still prone to making attempts to socialize, I had an unconscious habit of seeking out the odd and the outliers (of a sort). It seems I prefer my friends as I prefer humor: full of surprises that can catch me off guard.

Neurotypical people generally lack the ability to do that. They're boring and predictable.

HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

@VulcanTourist

Hm, very interesting.

So, in contrast to the public(?) (mis?)conception that people have problems reading situations, you actually excel at them, sort of like predicting them?

(Thinking of that Tom Cruise movie in my pinned toots...)

@MaJ1