A "radical" new autism spectrum disorder theory

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It's hard to comfort someone when you're overwhelmed with grief yourself which isn't even yours.

I feel empathy a lot now. Every song that I can be bothered to listen to puts me in the figurative shoes of the writer, whatever the song meaning is. I keep it to myself. Some songs, it would be embarressing not to

"suggests that the fundamental problem in autism-spectrum disorders is not a social deficiency, but rather an hypersensitivity to experience, which includes an overwhelming fear response."


That I think is very accurate.

Yeah, it's like we miss some kind of filter, in both directions.

Pfffft...
I would not call this 'groundbreaking' as they say in the artical. I could have told them this stuff 20 years ago if they only asked. Do they even 'talk' to people with asperger’s while doing these 'studies'?

Well, I posted the extreme emotion theory before this thread was created.

I don't think they speak to Aspies/Auties first.

If it amplifies empathy... what happens if you place to Auties in a room together and one of them is upset

A switch got flipped recently in regards to empathy. If they tell me, I'll feel it intensely. If they don't, then it's their own damn fault.

Maybe scientists are bogarting your guys theory's off the forums?

Finally their getting something right!

OK, ANOTHER odd aspect of my life associated with AS! HECK YEAH! I'm STILL trying to figure out how to explain a problem I am having, but it IS related to THIS!

It's an interesting theory with which I can find no fault. It's certainly what I've believed to be how my brain works for a very long time, since long before I knew anything about AS.

So, let's assume we experience emotions so strongly that we develop a block on our own empathy as a survival mechanism, thus seeming to be emotionless and hyper-logical. Does this sound like a description of Vulcans to anyone else?

But what about the hypersensory part, and the hyposensory part? If it increases sensory ability as well, and we block it like we do with emotion...

Or maybe it's just an overclocked brain.

Hmm... this might be like me. I didn't used to understand other people being upset - I didn't understand why if someone's parents divorced they were very uspet, but now I do understand things like this and I feel upset really because I sense how the world is full of upsetness and it's horrible really. I often wonder if others are as miserable as I think they are. My mum thinks I have good empathy. I think I understand a lot about other people that others don't. I think this is because I know other people don't always think like me, and people who are 'normal'/'NT' don't learn this so well because they always seem like others.

It's weird but that's exactly what my brother said to me the other day. He said that I do feel emotions, and more strongly than other people, but I get confused about what the emotions are.