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
@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.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2010.00224/full
https://www.spectrumnews.org/opinion/viewpoint/intense-world-theory-raises-intense-worries/
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.
@VulcanTourist @HistoPol @MaJ1
Hi, I'll be interested to here anything you have to say about Intense World Theory, but I think the opinion piece you just linked to is very weak & doesn't actually engage with IWT but a straw man.
(I can give my reasoning later if I remember, but if I tried to get into it now I'd be late for attending a theatre performance. )
Hi there!
Was about to send you a link to today's convo, but you beat me to it.
Enjoy your performance in the meantime. What are you
@HistoPol @VulcanTourist @MaJ1
I went to see "Myra's Story" but have run away at the interval.
(The sounds and lights were a bit harsh for me, but on top of that I thought the play horribly trite & clumsy, plus I was deeply uncomfortable at the audience laughing along at the mocking of people with physical differences. It's a memoir of a life resulting in homelessness & alcoholism - so a serious issue but played for laughs in the first half. It wasn't my kind of humour, so a bit alienating.)
"the audience laughing along at the mocking of people with physical differences."
How awful. Sorry to hear that you had such a bad evening but good that you left early.