About the incidence of people with minimal or minimal speech
Those kids were always there. In the past, they were labelled “mentally behind” before autism existed. I’m old enough that the neurologist who diagnosed me originally didn’t know what autism was and said that there was brain damage. There was a clear and serious voice delay. They were there before autism existed. They were called different things.
On increased detection at mild edges of the spectrum.
Where you might get some increase is in gentle children where you don’t have audio delay. Children with severe audio delays were always identified and labeled with something. It’s totally obvious. It’s totally clear to the child that something is really wrong. It’s a child with no audio delay that may increase the diagnosis, but he’s a bit of a nerd and nerd, and when he’s eight or nine, he doesn’t have any friends. No one ever looked at the data to see if there are more children who aren’t talking. They just say, “My autism has risen.”
Research costs required for sensory issues
Another thing I want to put money into research is how to insensitive the excess sensitivity that many autistic people have. Brain scans have a distinct anomaly that indicates that the fear circuit is turned on. Large noise activates more circuits in the brain, much more circuits than the average person. However, what you need to do is treat.
Sensory overload in restaurants, public toilets, and airports
One of the difficult things for people with autism in public is that all the noise in the restaurant (and the airport bathroom) is problematic with hand dryers and all automatic flushing issues. It is a common problem area for many children with autism. And one of the problems you have with toilet flusher is that they are all different. I don’t know when it will disappear. They don’t always respond the same way. A toilet that flushes after waking up, another toilet does it when you’re in it. The problem you had with those flashers is that they are so unpredictable.
We need to work on ways to desensitize. You need to figure out the best ways to insensitive some healthy sensitivity. And why? That’s what makes airports difficult because of the bathroom. Or, in a restaurant, there are two things that make the restaurant difficult. All the noise of the yucking person, when you go to the bathroom, deal with hand dryers and flashers.
It tends to be across the spectrum. And it may vary in severity. And some of the people who would have been labelled Aspergers in the past may have some very bad issues with irritability. One anecdotal discovery that seems to work is to let the child control it and turn it on, noisy things, vacuum cleaners, car corners, whatever it is. That seems to be useful.
Looking at the environmental impacts in addition to genetics
On the gentle edge, I think that’s all genetics.
If you find any kind of environmental insult, you are looking in a regressing group – they get the language and then lose it – that’s where environmental insult interacts with genetics.
Then there are kids who get bullied at school because they’re different. And they tend to get diagnosed in the later semester of primary school, as they are having such a horrible time that they are being bullied. They are genetic. That’s what I read in the literature. That’s my conclusion. If there is (environmental) insult, I think most of it will be included in the regression. The group should be considered very carefully and separately.
At RFK Jr. he says there’s an answer to autism in five months
There are no comments on politics.
On praising Elon Musk in her book Visual Thinking
It’s all about buying Twitter in advance. That’s in front of Twitter. I’ll leave it as is.
Advisors help individuals who are not exposed to typing to communicate about promoted communications
Some people don’t speak who can enter completely independently. And for me, independence means that you don’t touch the person, and the device sits on the table and doesn’t touch it. I have to rule out queuing. That’s the only way to rule out queuing.
Autism was not popular 30 or 40 years ago, but today
They would have just been sent to the institution. They were labelled “mentally behind” years ago. I avoided going to the institution. I was like a kid going to an institution in the 50s. But fortunately, my neurologist referred me to a small speech therapy clinic. Two women were taught from the basement of their homes.
About the idea that autism is a prevalence
I think detection is increasing completely orally. They expanded their diagnostic criteria over the years. You can look into it. In the 1980s, audio delay was required. Then Asperger’s came in the early 90s and was socially troublesome and there was no audio delay. Then in 2013 they cobbled everything together. They combined everything.
Another thing that’s going on is a very mild purpose, and I’ve been talking to a lot of people recently. They come to me to all meetings. People in their 50s and 60s. Everything is good work. And the diagnosis helped them in their relationship. Many of these older people were relieved. Now they understand why some of their relationships didn’t go that well.
Recent demand for services like voice therapists
Now, let’s talk about little kids. Ok, I’ve always traveled and in about four different places I went to the US last year, you have a 2 or 3 year old child without a speech. There’s definitely something wrong with this child – there’s no speech. They are on a two-year waitlist. That’s happening now. I spoke correctly with those parents. “That’s terrible. Let’s see where the service is.”
Regarding the lack of intervention services in some parts of the country
Many locations lack funding. However, there is a clear and significant problem for now that these speech delayed children do not receive early intervention. Some of these speech delay children are regressive. Some of them aren’t. They have not gotten early intervention. I had been intervening early by 2/1/2.
On screen, it exacerbates behavioral problems
Completely verbally, 8-year-olds with no such children are where screens affect children I’m not looking at in the playground next to where I live.
I think the screen will contribute to that. These are completely verbal and often smart kids at school, which is one subgroup I see and are diagnosed around the age of 8. I always come across them at autism conferences. This is a different group from the 3-year-old group with audio delay.
What do you think of this proposal for autism registration?
I don’t know how that would be useful in their research. If I’m going to do research, find out what’s a regressor. The problem is that you have so many subgroups.
The spectrum is really, really heterogeneous.
Asserts that “telepathic tape” and telepathic powers are present on high-level perceptions of non-peak individuals
Some of these individuals are highly perceptive. They pick up increased activity just before you pick up the key to get in the car. They are very sensitive to picking up such cues. You’re cleaning up the house and running around before you pick up your wallet and leave. They pick it up. (“The Telepathy Tapes” is a podcast and was once highly ranked on Apple Podcasts.
