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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 @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. 😬 )

HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

@FrightenedRat

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 👀?

@VulcanTourist @MaJ1

@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.)

@FrightenedRat

"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.

@VulcanTourist

@MaJ1