What causes depression?

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Could a person with shutdowns/catatonic phases, having OCD traits, hyper-sensitivity to humidity/air pressure/light/touch and hyper-sensitive hearing, being into animals and having strong emotional connection with them, preferring hanging upside down, being fascinated with slowly flowing water, liking lying on the ground looking at the sky, liking examining and pulling hair and hair getting pulled, being into biting, getting bitten and getting firmly touched, using small sounds, having an exceptional sense of smell and even making decisions based on it, so could such a person still be a NT?

It will depend on your definition of NT.

Traditionally, NT is sometimes defined as "not diagnosed with ASD". When NT is defined in that way, a lot of those traits can be present. If you use the Aspie Quiz "very likely NT" definition of NT, then much fewer can be present given that scoring those high will result in a low NT score. However, having just a few of them is very possible. Also, about 1/3 of the participants in Aspie Quiz score as mixed.

Yes, they are real. They are real in the sense that there likely is a communication channel that can be used to transfer these things. My hypothesis is that this is in the radio spectrum, and because it is in the radio spectrum, it will work over relatively large distances. It's also a fact that you can determine the direction (but not distance) if you can measure phase differences between two radio signals, which is very useful for knowing each other's positions in the absence of actually seeing each other. I suspect that humans primarily detect direction based on sounds by calculating phase differences between the left and right ear. The difference between sound and electromagnetic waves lies in much shorter delays for electromagnetic waves than for sound waves. This also tends to explain why NDs are much more likely to report being sensitive to electromagnetic fields.

Actually, I have built a radio data collecting device with two channels that can sample 25 seconds of data at 600 and 750 Mhz. It's an ongoing project to try to find the physical dimension of ND communication.

The research on facial expressions and stims concluded that NDs mostly rote learned NTs facial expressions (as evidenced by no variation in the expressions) and that stims were not adequate replacements for an efficient communication system, so there must be something else. I believe this something else is a radio wave-based system.

As I already noted, I'm not disputing this at all. I think the figure 70% is too high if we talk about NDs, but I still believe it is above normal.



It lies in the fact that nobody has published a study that proves it.

First, improving function is a hotly debated issue in itself. For an autism researcher, this means scoring lower on some autism test. However, since most autism tests are a strange mixture of autistic traits, coping failures and environmental (cultural) issues, it's not at all clear what the scores of those tests actually mean. For me, improving function means totally different things than scoring low on those tests.

Actually, I'm sensitive to gluten (or some other modification to wheat, doesn't really matter which it is), and by avoiding gluten I'm feeling more healthy and less tired, but it has in no way "improved" my autistic traits. I actually enjoy most of them and have no intention at all to become typical.

The woman in question scored NT on the Aspie Quiz initially, then when we were together, all of those things I listed above got revealed, most of them immediately, including the strong connection and the physical, sexual aspects. I blamed this tension between the quiz score and reality on what they mention as "masking/camouflaging", which can be especially strong among Asperger's women according to several studies. It's as if she learned that fake persona so good that her real, true self got lost somewhere deep inside, and only a matching aspie person could wake it up in her.

She also talked about a major change happening to her about 2 years ago, when she started exercising/walking great distances, lost major amount of weight in a few months, changed her regular diet to a very specific one, including for example a preference for one specific kind of apple, and gaining a sporty, almost anorexic look. At the same time, sleep disturbance occurred as well, resulting from an overall feeling of anxiety (starting with about 2 hours deep, dreamless sleep phase, then getting awake for at least a few minutes to sometimes an hour, then back to another sleep phase, and so on, resulting in anything from 3 to 6 hours overall sleep time).

Have you by any chance researched ASD diet, exercise & sleep peculiarities? I wonder whether these things could be related to hunting as well.

It's fascinating stuff. How come no one researched this before? Where do you suspect this radio-organ to be? If you suspect it's ear-, hearing-related (and I wouldn't doubt it, knowing these experiences involve no visual contact), is it completely dissimilar from the visual magnetoreception of birds (https://www.sciencealert.com/birds-see- ... eptor-2018)?

Based on the need for two different detectors with some distance and a rather long wave-length, I think the best bet is in the arms. That also tends to explain why some (including myself) can detect water in the ground. The common theme here is horisontal arms and some tool to display the results. It's traditionally associated with a tree branch, but I used a bolt or ring in a string. It works by sending out electromagnetic waves and then detecting how they are reflected back by water. It's much like a radar but with longer wavelengths. The system is not completely under voluntary control, rather it is the brain that operates the detecting tool in an unconscious manner. My mother who showed me how to do it always claimed that it moved all by itself, but I think it is moved by the brain, but not based on free will.

The tricky thing is that it cannot be continuous radio transmission as human-made radio and TV channels use. That would waste too much energy. Instead, the optimal way of doing this in an energy-efficient way is to use short pulses. That also provides a lot of challenges, given that there are a lot of short pulses in raw radio data that simply shouldn't be there. All the strong transmitters we have also pose problems as those need to be filtered out in order to see & analyze the short pulses. There is also a need for a smart coding system & tuning so only people that have a strong bond can detect each other's transmissions & interactions. It seems to take a bit of a time to get this system tuned in and functional. If this was not so effective, I'd be worried that anybody could tap into our conversations, which doesn't seem to be the case.

I don't think this is a system that evolved in NDs. Rather, I think this system is in common use among animals of many species, but NTs have lost the ability to use it and so they claim it "doesn't exist" and verbal communication is all that counts. However, much evidence shows that animals must have far more advanced communication systems than NTs want to give them credit for. The existence among animals also explains why NDs have better abilities to communicate with animals. It's also part of the hunting strategy as it is based on extensive knowledge of animal behavior, and probably also a symbiotic relationship with some species.

Yes, I think that is very possible. While Aspie Quiz has some issues that are not well-known as part of disorders, not answering questions truthfully will give you the wrong results.



Yes, I think exercise is super-important. I do that a lot because of my soul mate.

While typical humans planned their hunting parties, and probably rested most of the time, Neaderthals more likely were constantly outdoors and looking for possibilities. I also think this can explain the attention profile that is most commonly related to ADHD. Most of the time they would keep their activity level low to save energy, but as soon as they discovered something of interest with their acute senses, they got hyperfocused instead. A typical human hunting party have intense focus during much of the hunt, but then go low activity. This results in the attention difficulties observed in a typical classroom.

Speaking of human-made radio transmission, would you agree with my hypothesis that the outside interference resulting from their invention has made Aspie traits a lot more obvious then prior to their invention?

I'm not old enough to have experienced the pre-radio transmission state (is anybody right now?), but it would certainly have been easier if this didn't exist.

I don't know how much it actually interferes with the ND communication system, but it still seems to work alright. Possibly because human radio communication uses a quite different technique. I'd be more worried about the power grid.

So what is the average wavelength do you suspect this system/sense uses?

I had a wild idea thinking about your water detection description and also the emotional states when these transmission-experiences usually occur; what if the oscillator is (or is in) the heart itself? What if heart palpitations that often occur in a heightened emotional state are also the generated high frequency required for the long wave transmission? And in the case of your water detection, these heart palpitations cause the stability disturbance in the horizontally held out and thus, deliberately unstably positioned arms?

I just made a search on it, and apparently, it at least works the other way around, i.e. radio frequency/electromagnetic radiation has an effect on the heart rate: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29469164/

It would also explain the age old connection between heart (even symbols of it) and emotions, romantic love.

When I'm in this transmission state, I often imagine a connection between our chests, sometimes I even visualize some strong luminescence in and between them.

I don't know the exact frequency yet (if it is a single frequency), but based on the distance where it works (some 200 kms), I'd say it must be between 50-250 MHz. I thought I had found it at 48 MHz, but that was probably aliasing from a higher frequency. There also seems to be a factor that at a large distance only a limited amount of interaction is possible, and it is the direction sense that seems to have the largest reach. That might point to more than one frequency being used. Frequencies that have a large reach have low bandwidth, and so one might suspect that communication might use higher frequencies with larger bandwidth but with a smaller reach.

Also, it is only the direction sense that requires two "antennas" with some distance. The communication system could be a single point. Many spiritual traditions claim there is a small organ in the brain that is responsible for spiritual experiences (cannot remember the name of it right now).

I guess it also depends on the ability of the individual(s) involved, and their health state maybe. I checked the distance on the map the other day at where I started to feel a "step up" in the connection, and it was 3.6 km/2.2 miles. But it also worked from 6.9 km/4.3 mi., meaning the dream transfer and the scent transfer as well.

Is there a way to deliberately get into that communication-state?

I don't think its true that animals use radio waves to communicate, even if that was the case you're saying these organic radio transmitters in the bodies of animals/people would be located in the arms? That said I have never heard of any such organ existing and I figured you'd see it in anatomy books if it was a real thing.

Also, most animals use verbal sounds and body language based on all the reading I've done on animals and observations of them. I don't understand cats because i'm being 'psycic' with them...it's because they meow and use body language to show what they want, we aren't exchanging arm radio waves or whatever.

Think there is much to be said for a healthy diet and a healthy functioning digestive track . Particularly
A healthy gut bacteria . Which a multidolphilus can provide ... and yes am sure there are things the autistic gut may react to unfavorably to that perhaps a NT person probably , might not . Thank you for that piece of information on salicylic acids . Now onto the medical cause of depression , study’s by Dr Amen of the institute of the same name
And a Dr Brian Jennings of Sant Monica Calif. Using Spec scans of the brain , found that the left prefrontal cortex has been identified , ( according to the doctors) has reduced blood flow to that region of the brain , is directly connected to onset of chronic depression . and when that area of the brain shows good blood flow the patient has shown a happier disposition. They have proven and tested this on a great number of individuals . It is no longer just a theory.

There is no need to dispute that depression can be seen in the brain with brain scans. What is in dispute is the causative route. I believe there is much evidence that it is depression that messes up the brain chemicals and not messed up brain chemicals that causes depression. It also makes a whole lot more sense since there is no evolutionary function in messed up brain chemicals, while being depressed has clear evolutionary functions and is caused by environment.

You can think of it like depression is retained by the brain by chaining the brain chemicals. The same type of thing is evident in dominance in animal species. When a dominant male is defated in a fight his brain chemicals are affected when his social position is changed. There is no reason why dominance and depression should not work in a similar way.