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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: A New Theory of Autism - Strained Cognitive Load |
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Posted: 12 Aug 2015, 8:52 am
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Replies: 6
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| For anyone not wanting to click, here's the non-academic potted version. Alright, so what this theory says is that strained cognitive load is the main thing behind autism. What is cognitive load? Well, it basically refers to the demands on your mental processing capacity. So high cognitive load mean... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: A New Theory of Autism - Strained Cognitive Load |
| herbeey |
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Posted: 11 Aug 2015, 9:09 pm
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Replies: 6
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I got a 2:1 in my Psychology BA degree. My mental health hasn't been good enough for me to pursue anything further. I probably would've got a better grade if I wasn't obsessively focused on developing this.
Lucy Licious is a new name that I've chosen for myself. Most trans people choose new names. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: A New Theory of Autism - Strained Cognitive Load |
| herbeey |
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Posted: 11 Aug 2015, 8:38 pm
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| Hi, my name is Lucy Attackbot Licious, an autistic trans woman. Over an intense 2-3 years I came up with a new theory of autism based on strained cognitive load. Please check it out, critique it, add to it, and reflect on it. I am extremely interested in what you all have to say about it. Here's the... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Ways in which aspieism conflicts with your job |
| herbeey |
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Posted: 16 May 2013, 8:16 am
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Replies: 51
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| Yeah, that's a really good point about mental energy. I can totally handle a whole bunch of things up to a certain point and then suddenly I can't... I've just been using too many spoons/too much mental energy (google spoon theory for a truly excellent metaphor for mental energy depletion). I find t... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Ways in which aspieism conflicts with your job |
| herbeey |
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Posted: 16 May 2013, 7:00 am
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Replies: 51
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| Hi. I'm interested in ways in which aspieism conflicts with your job. For example, in my part-time job as a guesthouse night time receptionist, the ringing of the phone and of the door can be quite problematic for my anxiety since I'm quite sensitive to sound. I've read a lot on here about the probl... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Forgetting conversational topic mid-sentence |
| herbeey |
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Posted: 01 Jan 2012, 9:25 am
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Replies: 12
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| Does anyone else often forget mid-sentence what they're saying and even what on earth the conversation they're having is about? It happens a fair bit to me. I'm in the middle of talking and then suddenly I forget what I planned to say next and also what the conversational topic is, so I stop speakin... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Wife doesn't agree with my AS diagnosis... |
| herbeey |
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Posted: 18 Dec 2011, 8:06 pm
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Replies: 7
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| Is your wife a clinical or academic psychologist? Also, is her work at all related to psychpathologies? |
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Forum: Adult Autism Issues Topic: Sex & hypersensitivity to touch: congruity? |
| herbeey |
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Posted: 17 Dec 2011, 6:05 am
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Replies: 6
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| 'Understanding [my] body' sounds like a good idea, but it didn't take long yesterday for me to realise that I respond very differently to my touch than to other people's touch. Maybe it'll help to be more permissive about friends touching me, so that they'll be able to work it out for themselves and... |
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Forum: Adult Autism Issues Topic: Sex & hypersensitivity to touch: congruity? |
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Posted: 15 Dec 2011, 8:10 pm
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Replies: 6
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| I happen to be very sensitive to light touch. The prospect of sex is something I find rather difficult to imagine largely on this basis. My best guess is that sex with me would be a fair deal different from the norm because of it (although my sensitivity doesn't necessarily get interpreted as aversi... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Responding when people talk to you? |
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Posted: 12 Jul 2011, 5:03 pm
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Replies: 18
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| I find it insulting when someone ceases to listen to or understand me and, instead of indicating this, lets me continue speaking. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Could Taboos Against Natural Human Things Be Hurting Us? |
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Posted: 12 Jul 2011, 4:55 am
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| It is generally better for the individual and those whom they affect to live by love rather than indifference to others. Repression of certain natural things (for example, crime) can be a good thing, but it has to be harmonised with the social, cultural and structural context such that these problem... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: trying to understand (am NT) |
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Posted: 14 Jun 2011, 12:31 pm
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Replies: 24
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| i don't remember much from my childhood, but I do know that I made it my specified intention to annoy people, since annoyance was the only consistent'n'reliable reaction I could get from people. Family probably suffered this much worse than anyone else. Negative actions have a much more predictable ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Engagement with Poetry? |
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Posted: 26 May 2011, 4:23 am
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Replies: 6
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| I'm reading a paper that reviews autism theories right now, and one of the things it seems to be suggesting is that autistics might not read stuff like poetry in the same way as most people do because we struggle to read between the lines and sustain mental connections from one line to the next. Thi... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: what's your myers-briggs personality type? |
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Posted: 17 May 2011, 11:56 am
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Replies: 79
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INTJ
Before I'd heard of Asperger's, I'd read about INTJs quite a lot because I felt so different from others and yet it (largely) described me very well. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: You're not an Aspie if... |
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Posted: 17 May 2011, 11:48 am
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Replies: 98
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| If you look at the way we diagnose autism, it should become clear that we don't really know what we're talking about. It could be one condition, a number of similar conditions, etc. There could be a central thing to it, but many different things that contribute to that or come out of that, presumabl... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Sharing what helps with Autism |
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Posted: 16 May 2011, 1:22 pm
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Replies: 32
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| Two things that help me keep anxiety at bay as much as possible in social situations included my tinted glasses (they need to be on before the anxiety kicks in, not after) and a belt round the chest (this is usually deployed or tightened when anxiety increases). The reason for the belt is that it pr... |
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