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13 Jan 2010, 9:24 am

As I explore this tentative self-diagnosis with AS, some things really ring true and some things I just can't relate to. This rings very true. What do you think of it?

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13 Jan 2010, 9:43 am

Sorry for linking to your article :-)

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13 Jan 2010, 9:45 am

rabryst, that's the same article I linked to. I thought the author did like the theory.



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13 Jan 2010, 11:08 am

The paper's key proposition, i.e. neuronal hyper-functionality, is extremely interesting in my view. It is possible that further study in this direction will lead to a precise understanding of neurological aspects of autism.

Unfortunately, the authors' conjectures regarding the cause of autism are not particularly convincing, and they take up a significant portion of the paper.



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13 Jan 2010, 12:18 pm

Update me when they put all that in plain English. 8O



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13 Jan 2010, 12:18 pm

thank you for posting this. it's fascinating. aside from cure rhetoric (which this author left out, for the most part), it does put a lot of various pieces into place. instead of random conclusions here and there, it's possible to see how things fit together as a whole. (this is soothing to my puzzle-loving brain. i like it when things have a logical structure.)

i do have a sense of being over-stimulated much of the time, by both past and present events, and by daily stimuli. i bookmarked the article so i can refer to it later also. it's strangely validating.



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03 Dec 2010, 2:58 pm

I read the Abstract in the article, and it quite resonates with me. I do have a vast memory, I am hypersensitive to certain lights and sounds, and I was, as my mom called it, hypersensitive and hyperfocused. Oh, and I do agree with the hyper-linguism in Asperger's, which I have always had, I guess.

About the co-morbitities, isn't neurofibromatosis an overgrowth of tumors on the skin and brain? I'm not sure if that is an actual co-morbidity.

OK, the theory is a bust, because my mom wasn't an epileptic, schizophrenic, or someone with bipolar, and she happened to give birth (albiet at a poor timing) to someone with Asperger's.



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03 Dec 2010, 3:16 pm

Thanks for the great link... lots of good info here.

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“the autistic person is an individual with remarkable and far above average capabilities due to greatly enhanced perception, attention and memory. In fact, it is this hyper-functionality which could render the individual debilitated.”


:lol: Love it.


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