Recipe for Creating Autism in a Child

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there's no cookie-cutter way to deal with cancer...

cancer arises due to a MULTITUDE of mutations... and thus requires a whole lot of diff treatments.

i will give you that the brain is very powerful and that having such a positive view on such things can definitely help when fighting these things... i just wouldn't totally shun medical treatments.

if you want to look at how NS works with autism you have to consider the selective forces in our times... are autiscs breeding? as well as understand genetics enough to understand how NTs can also be perpetuating the situation as well... it's very very easy to keep "bad" mutations within populations.

again... plz take a bio course...... lol, no NS............ OK

i bet you also believe that humans have stopped evolving... assuming you even consider evolution as real.

dont want to start religion debate... i think you can hold these beliefs and make them work with scientific findings.

and yes, we do have the brain and some major pathways mapped... again though, there's an estimated 10 billion connections... so no we don't have them all.

just go google brain structures... it's a fairly easiy thing to do... we know basic functions of major brain structures.

i dont have time to spoon feed you.

Looks like a recipe for creating an NT child. This fits a lot of families, like the statement that marijuana is a gateway drug because drug addicts usually start with pot. They usually start with millk, too.

now that i'm back from the lab...

here's what i googled in like 2min........

brain structure and function
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/kinser/Structure1.html

brain pathways
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/units/ad ... thways.cfm

as i said... this is fairly well known stuff. you could get a lot more detail through other means. but we definitely know major functions for brain structures and can infer other things about them from the pathways we do know.... the pathway link isn't the best (it's only about pathways involving the striatum, one region of the brain, as it's involved in addiction), but hey, i found this info in 2 MIN!! !! !

so please at least take 2 min of your time before you make some stupid accusation. yes we know basic brain biology... but the things that add up to behavior at the organismal level are infinitely more complex...

and no, we don't know EVERYTHING or probably a majority of it yet... the abyss, brain and space... our final frontiers

You know...

My personal crackpot theory is that autism came first and that the neurotypicals are evolving away from us.

Look at the way formal letters are composed in the 16th century. The 14th century. Look at what we know of the earliest humans and how they lived.

I posit that we are the originals and were, if not the vast majority, probably the people running things.

However, as transportation improved, NTs started running into eachother more. Their non-verbal cues, etc. made them extremely competitive.

The world's population has gone up by 700% or so in 150 years.

What if that's because the NTs weren't able to find and breed with eachother in high quantity before that?

Look at the population boom. Look at the way war and society and culture and correspondence have changed.

Tammy Lynn Michaels
Wife of Melissa Etheridge
Her Blog - HollyWood Farm Girl
Wednesday, January 09, 2008

soap box. soap box. soap box.

i heard a mother complain to another at the mall, "i said to my oldest son, 'why don't you get off the computer? why are you always on myspace, myspace, myspace? Can't you get out and TALK to someone in REAL LIFE?!' and he didn't even look away from the screen as he answered me with a mumble!" the simple, loving, hard-working mom uncrossed and recrossed her keep-up-with-the-family-sneakered legs, and tossed back the rest of her starbucks coffee through un-glossed lips.

she was a little older than me, maybe later thirties. i'd gotten from earlier eavesdropping that her son was 12. in my head, i did some quick math... her son was a product of a woman... who was a product of the atari 2600 and coleco generations. man, that was some fi-i-i-ine pac-man playing. i liked that jungle-something, i loved popeye where he had to catch hearts for olive oyl... loved ms pac man and HATED friggin' q-bert. damn thing never moved the way i would jerk the joystick in my blistered, sweaty little hands. ahhh, those good ol' days when home video machines/games were just beginning to build popularity.

there were some kids in my class who had atari, some had coleco later on, and even later a very few die-hard-video-game-junkie-seniors had nintendo. and now, it seems that those video kids who left the joystick at home when they went to college, are now late thirties and perhaps turning their children towards the fun games they recalled as a child? but the games aren't the same, they are completely different. the details in them now, the sound affects, the visuals, the high-def televisions, the complete creation of a reality that looks, sounds, sometimes feels as real, as real life. and when someone has two choices: they can live in a world where they have no control over life, OR they can practice a virtual life over and over until they DO control their "reality".... which world do you think they wanna live in?

and myspace kids? those are just the kids a few years behind me who got really into nintendo 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and friggin' 19 or whatever. when kids are sitting inside a building, with false senses (fake smelly deordorizers or febreze, smelly detergent and non-static dryer sheets-which are carcinogens, polyester clothes and tubber toys with poisonous dyes) living life with their fingers and their mind, eyes glued to a screen... what else do you mothers expect them to do when they're older? MYSPACE. back to the whole "controlling their reality" idea. man, and as a teen in this day and age - hell at any age in this day and age, wouldn't you give just almost anything to be able to control some of this chaos?

so with that "control of reality" experience going on, the electric gadget business continue to invent electric, "screened" gadgets for younger and younger audiences. i went to look for an "excer-saucer" for the twins when it was age appropriate, and i couldn't find any that didn't look like they were child seats planted right in the middle of TIMES SQUARE. all these fake electronic lights, these fake sounds ("mooo!" said the computer) and so much much much much to look at. it was dizzying. i finally bought the excersaucer that allowed me to leave the "busy parts" off. i want my babies' brains to work hard at developing, and use their muscles,so i don't give them toys that allow them be passively entertained. which means that most of the presents they are given for whatever reason (bday, xmas, kid of famous parents, blah blah blah) are donated to the katrina victims. in fact, the only screen time the twins have ever had is some football on sundays. no, they don't watch, they just hear the sound from another room, toddle in long enough to see whatever the heck they can see in a few minutes, and then start their "let's go chiefs! let's go chiefs!" trick. it's not really a trick. it's more of a clap-clap-clap thing... anyway.

from babyhood to teenhood, and now into adulthood, screens and electronic relationships are encouraged everywhere. remember when those talking dolls came out wa-a-a-a-y back then? when the pretend friend uses real words, it doesn't seem to me to leave much room for creative play between the child and 4 sentences her "friend" can say.

the younger generations were trained by parents to turn to the screens. (tv, video games, tv, dvds, tv, computers, tv, get the picture?)

i wanted to tell the mother to get the screen out of her house. you want your son to have real relationships? don't allow flat-faced-screen realities. you want him to learn to talk face to face- put your cell phone down.

in accordance with our household theory, the babies have mostly wooden toys. big legos were introduced recently, but otherwise,they just play with things that are made... how to 'splain...toys that are made of "nature". they don't watch screens (except that chiefs loyalty thing for 3 minutes), they only have dolls with only dots for eyes, and half-circles of yarn for mouths; they don't watch tv, videos, dvds, or anything with a screen; and they won't for a long, long time. perhaps next year they can watch the family movie that honey makes every year. oh, yeah. and everywhere i go, i am told the twins are the best behaved babies X person has ever been around. or they are the calmest babies that Z person ever saw...

i think of it like this: if i fill my children's senses on overload: tv for hours, or video games that mock behavior i don't want the child displaying later (shooting people)... then it would only make sense... that later, when my child is in school, the room will be deathly quiet, and only the teacher's voice is filling my child's world- a world that has gotten used to BANG! ZIP! MOVE OUTTA THE WAY! GETIT! GET IT! SHOOT IT BANG BANG ZIP ZAP- my child might feel ready to jump out of its skin due to such "unnaturally quiet" surroundings. my child might be tempted to behave erratically to change the atmosphere in the class to match a more comfy atmostphere for himself/herself- something louder, more chaotic, and with more anxiety (am i gonna get my guy killed? how many guys do i have left? i need to shoot the bad guys before they shoot me!). but doctors don't talk about that either. so they'd prolly call my child difficult, and diagnose it with ADD or ADHD, gimme drugs to pacify the damage being done by continuing to let him live in Screen World, and move on. ADD and ADHD are caused by the overdoes of sugar (organic cane sugar, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, pick-a-name-to-disguise-that-it-is-really-sugar) along with age-inappropriate /over-exposure to electronic machines and games and computers. and i wish more parents turned to intimately interacting with their child more to help with ADD, instead of putting them on drugs. that's not to say i think all drugs are bad. hell, i'd mention the doses i'm taking to help with my PPD, but i don't want tom cruise to slam me in the press, and drag my personal business all over the world, all while shaming me for trying to survive this time in life. i digress. the point is there are many other ways to treat "TMS"- too many screens. and i am sad that drugs is the first answer for so many uneducated parents and doctors.

tv can be poison. video games are poison. screens are unneccessary for so many. children need to feel what's real: leaves, dirt, wood... they don't need to climb on rubber play sets and fade into a world of screens and bells and whistles.

so i never said anything to the lady, i know she is trying her best to be a good mother... i am just so sad that people seem to be so out of touch with their children... and their children with them.

throw your tv out. play a game with your kid. make your kid get bored- boredom breeds creativity. otherwise, give 'em screens, buy them games, and teach them to live in a world of un-reality.

columbine, VA tech shooting, malls, etc.... screens disallow us to understand humanity and the preciousness of life. we are not a game.

posted by Tammy, midwestern girl | 9.1.08
http://hollywoodfarmgirl.blogspot.com/

I dunno, I disagree. To blame society's ills on technology like TV and video games just seems like a cop-out and a scapegoat. I don't buy it. When some kid goes on a shooting spree and everyone blames "Doom" my thoughts turn to his parents.

Couldn't agree more. Which is why I think chemo should not be the automatic reaction.


And jjstar - what a brilliant blog entry, and I couldn't agree more with it.

Not to be rude, but how exactly was it brilliant? It's the same thing politicians and parents have been regurgitating for ages.

Not to mention, none of that blog entry is truth.

Agreed. It's irresponsibility; people want to divert the blame for society's ills on more easily remediable scapegoats.

After all, we all know that shootings and murders occur because of Halo and MTV, not because of petty things like "parenting."

Well, keeping kids out of the way of video games and tv screens and electronic babysitters as long as possible is the best thing you can do if you want them to have a decent imagination, learn about the world around them, and have them grow up healthy and balanced instead of over-hyped and over-stimulated by electronic overkill (Light! Colour! Sound! Noise! Too much going on at once!). I don't know if you've ever seen what happens when you put a baby or toddler in front of a TV but they aren't watching it, they're mesmerised by the colour and noise and end up spacing out - at first it looks kinda cute, but then you realise just how scary it is.
She put it brilliantly. = brilliant.