The problem is that the answer and solution that solves the AUTISM
puzzle is not 2-dimentional but 3-D, it is a sphere and not a flat
circle. If you are able to understand that extra dimension then I
will be able to explain the whole puzzle to you.
Because it is a circle, there is also no beginning and no end,
something like the "who came first the chicken or the egg". as
language is 2 dimensional so I will have to 'limit' my reply to fit
into that need.... while my normal mode of thinking in pictures is 3-
D... yes, the pictures we auties think with are 3-D NOT 2-D as most
NT scientists think, they are not flat pictures, they are images
like we see in dreams they are 3-D... here is thus a new
misconception about the autistic brain...
Let's say that the chicken came first.
Lets look at the female body and chemistry. We have two hormones the
male and female hormones. For the female body NORMAL is a high level
of estrogens and a low level of testosterone. NORMAL meaning a
balanced state, a safe and survival enhancing state of being.
ABNORMAL is when the testosterone level raises. Adrenaline (and its
by-product testosterone) is produced by fear, stress, anger, etc and
creates an UNBALLANCED and thus also ABNORMAL state in the female
body. the body knows (as well as the brain) that changes are
necessary to preserve the state of being, and to survive. This state
is 'toxic' to the body as it is to the brain, because it disturbes
the perfectly balanced ecosysyem of the brain's chemistry!
The more the female body encounters situations of stress the more
toxic traumas her body encounters. As I mentioned, her body keeps
score of these toxic traumas inside the core of each cell - the
mitochondria, by keeping an accurate account of each encounter and
also of the level of adrenaline and testosterone it has produced,
which allowed the organism to survive- the body then by knowing what
amount of adrealine it needed to ensure survival, it can provide a
better chance for its offsprings in the race that is called the
survival of the fittest.
Why is this necessary?
For the needs of evolution and survival of the species. Because the
next generation this female will produce will be 'fitter' to survive
the stressful environment that the mother experiences, by having the
ability to create, handle and produce even more adrenaline than the
previous generation(s).
This means that the score of highest adrenaline level of the mother
will be inherited in her embryo and it will 'help' her embryo to be
the fitter if not the fittest that will survive by being the
strongest due to the increased amounts of adrenaline that this
embryo's body will be able to handle, produce, work with.
A old saying mentions that "at time of war, women give birth to
warriors"...
Lets think about this: time of war is a stressfull time for the body
of the mother. To be able to birth warriors, her body must tell the
embryo that there is war going on outside. The female body
communicates this environmental information through the hormones and
the mitochondria that the female body 'gives' the embryo as it grows
inside her.
Due to today's society, women face constant stress, stress that the
male body can handle better as it is more comfortable with high
levels of adrenaline and the testosterone it produces.... yet, we
see that even men who encounter stress often get more heart attacks,
have high blood pressure, etc.
This is a clear indication that stress, and thus its hormones
adrenaline and testosterone, are TOXIC for the human body because
they are meant to function as an alarm system to warn us when
something is threatening us and protect us, but when abused, instead
of protecting these same hormones begin to harm and even destroy the
body!!!
Because adrenaline and testosterone are so closely connected to
fear, which is the primary instinct of survival, when the fetus
encounters the toxic effects of high, repeated and prolongued
and 'attacks' of adrenaline and testosterone through its connection
to the femal body, the fetus becomes like a junkie becoming used to
the high levels, addicted to the high levels of adrenaline.
Thsese high levels have the following effect: They change the
chemistry of the brain and body of the fetus. The fetus becomes a
warrior. The fetus brain and body are created to feel
constant 'fear' so as to learn from it, and better enhance his/her
warrior skills (since fear is the basis of fast learning).
Unfortunately the effect has 2 sides.
The warrior is one side of the coin and the coward is the other. The
autistics are either extreme warriors or extreme cowards (or what
Baron-Cohen calls the extreme male brain = warrior, and the extreme
female = paranoid and shut inside itself unable/unwilling to
encounter the threatening world), or the effect is that of swinging
endlessly between the two extremes and becoming fearless and then in
an instant becoming coward by shutting off all reality and behave
autistically excluding the world around it a world that is see as a
war field that fills the person with constant fear...
But the fear is NOT real! The high adrenaline level gives the brain
the illusion of fear because it can work as follows:
fear ==> adrenaline ==> sensation of fear,
but it can also work as follows:
Adrenaline ==> sensation of fear (without a real source of fear!!!)
That is why autistics live in contstant fear because we were 'told'
during our development period (pregnancy) through the
hormones/chemistry of body of the mother that the environment we
will be born in, is in a state of war (stressful, harmful, fearful,
etc).
For the brain to meet the survival challenge of being born in a
world of war it needs to also adapt and change. The autistic brain
is fundamentaly different from the non-autistic brain we know that,
but you do not know how different, while I know exactly how
different.
For a warrior to survive, he/she needs to do 2 things at THE SAME
TIME fight one enemy, while also protecting his/her back from
another. That is why the autistic brain is like a dual hard drive.
Each hemisphere works BOTH with the other AND indipendently from the
other!
We can do 2 things at the same time because we think in STEREO and
not MONO.
The non-autistic brain works as ONE constatntly communicating
between the 2 parts becaue each part can't work independently unless
it is at a constant conversation with the other.
The autistic brain can work as 2 independent brains (think of 4-
wheel drive compared to the 2-wheel drive) that only communicate to
decide and agree which half will do what and then they work
seperately and independently from the other this ability gives
autistics the ability to think in STEREO AS EACH HALF WORKS AS ONE,
AND ALSO WITH THE OTHER:
LEFT brain + RIGHT brain + BOTH brains together = 3 DIMENSIONS.
That is why the autistic brain needs less connections between the 2
hemispheres, it simply needs less communication between the 2
hemispheres. It saves energy by doing that!
Less communication between the 2 hemispheres means less energy
needed to support brain function, less energy needed to support
brain function means less calories needed in food consumption. We
are simply an enhanced energy-saving human model.
That is also why the NT brain will NEVER understand what autism is.
The NT brain thinks in 2 dimensions, not 3-D. The only time the NT
brain thinks in 3-D is when it is asleep in the REM state of sleep.
If you look at the activity of the asleep NT brain and the activity
of the awake autistic brain you will see what I mean.
Living in society that has a 2 dimentional perception of world, with
a 3-D brain is what creates all the misconceptions about autism. The
autistic brain is not disfunctional or disabled or abnormal, but
simply stressed living in a world that limits our abilities and
perceptions... almost the feeling of wearing a show that is too
small!
That is also why autistics can think in pictures, since images are 3-
D, while words are 2-D, and if you ever wondered how can God speak
to each and every person no matter what language they speak,
consider that God also communicates in pictures and speaks to us
through pictures, images or visions like the saints always mentioned
when receiving messages from God...
By seeing an image everyone and anyone can know what it means no
matter what language they speak.
Yes, the autistic brain is more in tune with the 'language' of God
and the language of the universe, than you might have ever imagined.
This is the key to autism.
We are the children of fear, of stress and of evolution's need to
create a being (a human being) that is fit to survive the levels of
fear and stress that we were born from.
We are an enhanced model that is made to save mental energy by
having a brain that works more efficiently once given the chance.
I know because as I said the autistic brain has enhanced tools to
survive, one of them is the sixth sense, the telepathic ability that
can be used to both hunt the enemy and also protect our backs.
The autistic kids who exhibit the so misunderstood autistic behavior
are just warriors/cowards that are treated and brought up as mentaly
retarded (for the autistic standards of brain ability).
Please believe me that what is happenning right now with the
autistics all around the world is a crime, a true crime against
humanity, a crime against the human race itself, a crime against
autistics who are seen as a 'stigma' a curse, an epidemic, a plague.
We are not a desease, we are not broken, we are just better,
enhanced ... fear made us better so that the human race can survive.
I am not arrogant. I am just trying to explain to you what is
autism, or better HOW much misunderstood autism is...