Also matches, dice, and even Street Fighter power bars. Each is slightly different and may give a better understanding to different folks or in different situations. (Post below is mine)
I wonder if there is any research on children of autistic parents, both autistic and not. It would be a touchy subject to pry open, from several perspectives on ethics. But I am both an autistic father and a son of an autistic father, so… I've been wondering. @actuallyautistic
You've got to look at any of it VERY skeptically, though. For example, the 2014 study below implies that PTSD in a mother is a "risk factor" for autism, but what they were probably actually measuring was undiagnosed autistic mothers who had CPTSD from being autistic (and female-presenting) in our society. As they did not even recognize that possibility in the study, it's impossible to tell for sure.
I wonder how many sociologists are autists/neurospicy? Our whole deal is "seeing the strange in the familiar," so maybe in the same way that partnerships between sociologists and economists have helped to make the latter more... human ... we could do the same with medical science?
I've found that as a quick litmus test is whether or not the tone of the study is centered on the needs of the autist or on the needs of those around the autist. (The latter includes "we must cure them" attitudes.)
There's a clip from Chris Packham in the blog post I wrote (link below) which really kind of illustrates the difference.
#NowPlaying The #PhilipGlass binge continues unabated. These are some of the CDs I listened to (a lot) in the 90s. They're almost tame compared with some of his other works, e.g., Dance Nos 1-5, Music In 12 Parts, and the operas, which some find a bit challenging. There's something about his intense, repetitive loops that suggests autistic stimming and I'd be interested to know if the music of Glass (and other minimalist composers) resonates with other autistic people. @actuallyautistic
Sure, just as there is nobody who is actually "average."
At the same time, the more I poke at my cognition compared to that of others, the more I realize that there at least a sub-set of allistics who not only have different logical "givens" about how they think, but ultimately cognate in a way that is radically different from mine in a way that is almost painful to emulate.
Interesting! I view it almost completely oppositely (the RSS feeds I read are separate from social media on purpose, even though I often use RSS to glue things together); I'm glad there's options.
Five hours of sleep... 😴 Not bad, in the end, I guess. Just to share what finally helped me to fall asleep - a white noise stream on my radio app. 📻
I've heard of it before - people using white noise machines and such, but I've never tried it before. I guess I can put this on my list of life hacks that actually work ☑️
That has always tended to be my experience among everyone except neurospicy folks. It's not a universal among us, either, but it's a far better success rate.
There's a good part of me that wonders if there's a correlation between a wider range gender expression (and relationship diversity, perhaps) and the neurospicy tendency to look at conventions that have no reasoning behind them and then ignore the (stupid) conventions and just do what makes sense/ feels "correct" to us.
I am a cishet dude, so I may be VERY VERY off-base here. Thoughts?
I'm #autistic. The sound of the train blowing its horn as it passes my house makes me cover my ears in pain. But the throbbing bass of the engine that causes a deep pressure in my chest from the vibration makes me feel happy.
When I was a kid, I used to crank up the bass of my parents' stereo and sit directly against the woofer to feel that pressure. They would always yell at me to turn it down. I've always loved that feeling.