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It would be nice to have a summary of the different interventions discussed.

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Excellent video!!! 🙌🏻 Thank you so much for all you do! ☺️

Video is excellent quick descriptive resource!!!

This comes as close as I have see it, to understand my experiences. I recognize it in my self and the people closest to me. Please take note and understand.

Yesssss. The visual non-integration

Yes, autism is an immutable characteristic, no different from your skin color. We are born this way. Can we abolish ABA? It's abuse not therapy.

Always excited to find autism research done by autistics.

Thank you. That was super interesting. Shed a lot of light on my behavior. I was diagnosed last year at 53 and as I learn I am so grateful to finally understand my life and be at peace with it.

In computing, there are often tradeoffs between throughput (total work done per unit time) and latency (time for a given unit of work to be completed). A system optimized for high throughput often has trouble guaranteeing fast and consistent responses to input (in particular, even if the average case response is fast, the worst case can be pathologically slow), and systems optimized for response time are often have considerably less throughput. Is there anything in the neurological data that might suggest something similar going on in autistic brains? If we have a setup where there is a lot of work begun but not completed at any given moment, and where new sensory input cancels work in progress and sends it back to the beginning, in favor of processing the new input, then a lot of sensory input might keep interrupting work before it's completed, resulting in only the first stages of the metaphorical "assembly line" ever receiving anything to work on and very little coming out the other end, unless sensory threshold levels are turned down so far that interruptions are rare.

How might you explain also why when someone is having a meltdown I push to the limits - why??? Am I trying to get the person to react and break a cycle of sorts? I can not stop myself and feel such a bad person afterwards too, of course - I would love to know

Found this very insightful thank you so much for your research

Thank you this is fascinating .I often pick up my cat when I am getting tense the purring close to my body really helps me calm down 😊

I dislike eye contact even with my boyfriend I feel safe with. It makes me feel exposed and like lasers are looking at me. I can stand eye contact for a second. But I don't like it. It is interesting that positively stimulating one sense helps cancel out the negative sensory input of another sense.

My family crest motto is "vigilance and strength" in Latin. Hmm...

This is a big problem that shows that all levels of autism need support.

Autistic "inertia" sounds like a fad term...like unpack

Being in a wheelchair is only a problem when there's no ramps? Since when?! You've never treated pressure sores from a chair or heard someone sob they can't walk. Taking political correctness to this extreme hurts society. "Unpack" some honesty.

Glad to hear about this. It could help people.

This is the most on point and informative research about autism I’ve seen in a few years.

Meanwhile US Federal agencies tell people to contact lifeline is feeling suicidal. As an autistic person who has attempted twice I checked it out. That company is literally a govt sponsored suicide booth for autistic humans. I attempted to contact them, was asked a million personal questions then asked to pay for access.... I emailed them multiple times, responded to their attempts to get money, no suicide prevention for autistic humans It is a literal death machine sanctioned by the ADA

"My alarm went off and got out of bed" man that so nice. I cant stand the 2 hour reboot process my brain does every morning

Think about it later... lol yeah right!

You say autistic people are not from another planet which is of course true. However, other children tended to treat many of us as if we were from another planet. Some of this even applies to how autistic adults are treated especially in work settings.

Oh wow..I really want a cat purr vibration device....can it work from my smart watch? My garmin reads my stats...can that be linked to a purrer...thus is exciting!!!😊

I feel

where can we get these vibrational breath focus devices?

The part about vibrations being helpful…I understood that. When I was about five years old I got some roller skates made of metal that caused me to feel vibrations in my feet as I skated on the concrete sidewalk. I liked that soooo much. I would skate back and forth in front of my house for more than an hour. Even now, just thinking about that is relaxing. Also, I have a ring with gears and ridges that cause a vibration when I twist it. I feel so much better when I have it and feel those vibrations.

At 16:50, here is a summary (by ChatGPT) of this amazing finding: In a 2017 study, researchers asked autistic individuals to look at faces on a screen, marking the spot where their gaze should focus. The participants were instructed not to look away, even if the faces showed emotions like fear. The findings revealed that, for autistic participants, this task significantly increased activity in the amygdala, a brain region involved in emotional processing. This heightened response occurred not just for fearful faces but for happy ones as well. Interestingly, such an increase in amygdala activity was not observed in non-autistic (neurotypical) individuals under the same conditions. This suggests that autistic people have a heightened sensitivity to faces in general, not just to expressions of fear or threat. The increased amygdala activity indicates that their brains are more vigilantly processing facial cues, which can make social interactions more intense and potentially overwhelming. It's not just about the emotion displayed on the face; the simple act of processing facial information can activate their emotional response systems more than it does for neurotypical people. This can make social situations particularly challenging, as the heightened vigilance to faces puts them on edge and makes it difficult to disengage.

Thank you very much 😊

I am Autistic. My body has tremors that no one has been able to explain. I wonder if my body naturally vibrates for the reason you explain

I'm 55 and still acquiring a vocabulary to describe my feelings and experiences of being autistic. One of the hardest aspects of being autistic, especially undiagnosed or "high functioning" (overreductive and debatable), is not knowing how to explain it even to myself. Worse, an abusive environment through the lens of autism leads to misconceptions about human nature and society in general. I recently found out I qualify for formal evaluation that should be fully covered, though I'm willing to shell out what I'm able in order to finally get the formal diagnosis. I didn't think I needed it; however the longer I go without it, the more I question myself despite years of research before acquiescing to the obvious, when you know the details about autism. In order to better stand up for myself, I need that validation, unfortunately. So finally, at more than half a century, I'll presume I'll finally "know" with clinical certainty. And believe me, I really didn't want any more diagnoses; I have enough of those, would love to reduce them if that were possible rather than claim more. On the other hand, classic autie, I live in reality and logic, not delusionally.

My personal favorite: You should talk to a therapist.... To a nonverbal person who goes nonverbal when anxious, dealing with new people in new settings Sure, I'll just talk to a stranger at a strange place when I'm already anxious from driving there beyond the normal anxiety of being autistic.

"Later it only comes back even later" was my first response there. I cant just bring up things ive wanted to bring up in the past when someone asks about them... they need to be prompted.

The funniest thing to me about this presentation in the early minutes is hearing how this wasn’t so researched, discussed until fairly recently, when it was autistic inertia that was the impetus that led me to seek out counseling when I was in crisis in 2002 that I described as “inertia” that got me unexpectedly diagnosed. The weirdest thing to me that struck me as weird and unexplained was having no emotional aspect to the inertia. To this day, I’ve read/heard/seen nobody else that ended up getting diagnosed where inertia was the only root cause as to why someone sought out an explanation. I only sought out counsel and got diagnosed not because I felt any issues regarding any social aspects so many others do, and not because of (what I learned recently by experience) ending up in autistic burnout. I have other issues that made me not think of social differences as even a consideration from the start.