A separate line of research has identified that autistic individuals are more prone to childhood trauma (also sometimes referred to as childhood maltreatment, adverse childhood experiences, or childhood abuse and neglect) [11,12,13,14,15,16]. Autistic traits in the general population are positively...
Neurodivergent kids and adults are more sensitive to trauma and stress. Trauma research also shows the different ways trauma manifest– there is a reason ABA kids get called “calm, quiet, compliant” and its called the freeze shut down response....
the part of the brain that connects the right and the left hemisphere.16The larger corpus callosum of infant girls allows them to work through trauma and neglect more easily than boys. Furthermore, boys who are abused had a 25 percent reduction in sections of...
plenty written by autistic people ourselves. They only need a quick Google search. But to play the trump card quickly, I’ll link you directly to the academic research that found“Respondents of all ages who were exposed to ABA were 86 percent more likely to meet the PTSD criteria than...
Even if a mere 10% more autistic people were allowed access to the workforce, then the economy could be boosted by £593.25 million per year. Barriers and discrimination in employment include: recruitment, interviews and assessments; the sensory environment at work; social pressures; lack of ...
Evidence suggests a potential for differences in prosody among first-degree relatives of autistic individuals, indicative of genetic susceptibility to ASD through prosodic variations, alongside the subclinical traits characterized as the broad autism phenotype (BAP). Further characterizing prosodic profiles in...
This separation prevents “catastrophic forgetting,” allowing the brain to efficiently manage both new and existing knowledge. These findings could lead to better memory enhancement techniques for humans and inspire more efficient artificial neural networks. A new study shows head trauma may activate ...
he’s more robotic, Isaac Asimov’s stuff, Susan Calvin, turned out to be gay, I can fix her, asexual, different, weirder, in the coffee shop, somebody he wouldn’t be serious about, partnerships, romance, doomed teenage love affairs, people like that exist, what’s the judgement on ...
In what Mahler (1968) described as anomnipotent autistic orbit, the malignant dissociative contagion becomes a field of the totalizing knowledge and our war rhetoric transforms the whole of society into a field of perception that is manipulated by the media in regard to what we are “allowed”...
The need to be in control. When someone feels that they have little to no control over their own lives, they may find a sense of peace in controlling the lives of others. This often happens with people who deal with severe anxiety, or who have past traumas from loss or extreme ...