#autism spectrum disorder
So my boyfriend and I were watching videos of otters at the zoo, and Jonny straight up asks me if “otters develop attachments to things like I do.”
My boyfriend just asked me if otters are autistic.
Oddly not mentioned: vaccines, the very definition of immune system activation and Hep B routinely given at birth?
Immune System Activation in Newborns May Affect Developing Brain
McLean Hospital neuroscientists have found that even a brief episode of immune system activation within days of birth can cause persistent changes in sleep patterns concurrent with increases in epilepsy-like brain activity—a combination of symptoms common in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other developmental conditions. The detailed findings are available in the January 12, 2018 issue of Neuropsychopharmacology.
“A growing body of evidence suggests that immune system activation, such as that caused by bacterial and viral infections, can play important roles in many brain disorders,” explained Bill Carlezon, PhD, chief of the Division of Basic Neuroscience at McLean Hospital, and senior author of the paper. “While previous research in laboratory animals has established that immune activation during critical prenatal (before birth) developmental periods can later produce the core features of ASD, including decreased social interaction, aberrant communication, and increased repetitive behavior, we wanted to evaluate whether postnatal (during infancy) immune activation could also produce other symptom clusters that are often seen in ASD and related conditions.”
Full open access research for “Perinatal Immune Activation Produces Persistent Sleep Alterations and Epileptiform Activity in Male Mice” by Galen Missig, Emery L Mokler, James O Robbins, Abigail J Alexander, Christopher J McDougle & William A Carlezon Jr in Neuropsychopharmacology. Published online October 6 2017 doi:not available
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My NT friend: doesn’t this silence bother u
Me, autistic: are u telling me u can’t hear this incredibly loud fridge
The lights have sound
Electronics have sound
Appliances have sound
If electricity runs through it, it has sound.
Rarely is there actual silence (and that does bother me due to lack of sensory input).
This is why the barn uses me when they think the horses are reacting to a noise they can’t hear. I’ll likely find it (it’s usually the heating or the electrical box in the indoor).
I also know when the electric fences are on.
For years I was convinced that I was either hallucinating or had hearing damage, because electronics always made this high-pitched whine that was closer to being felt than heard, and nobody else knew what I was talking about.
Then I met other autistic people.Wait a minute.
…Are…are you telling me other people can’t hear the fridge motor?
The constant high pitched whine of electric appliances?
That the world doesn’t sound like radio frequencies?
It already took me 21 years to realise that I don’t perceive light the way normal people do (thanks to astigmatism) and now this?
What else?
or like the sound of the wind outside when you’re inside along with everything else
