of degree to which those negative side-effects burden a person. Here, I am speaking of autistic traits; the more of these intelligence-producing genes or mutations you have, the more likely you are to be intelligent, but also, the more likely you are to suffer from various autistic traits...
Neurodivergent individuals have been found to possess some of the most sought skills in today’s world of work, including: Greater than normal ability to process information. Research has found that autistic employees “have a greater than normal capacity for processing information even from rapid ...
Asperger's syndrome is now diagnosed as level 1autism spectrum disorder(ASD), or autism with low support needs. If you or an autistic loved one with low support needs have been diagnosed, your physician may still call it Asperger's syndrome. So do some autistic people who prefer the name....
Video calls seemed an elegant solution to remote work, but they wear on the psyche in complicated ways.
Do autistic babies sleep more? Children with autismare more likely than typical children to have had problems falling asleep as infants, according to a new study1. These infants also have more growth in the hippocampus, the brain's memory hub, from age 6 to 24 months. ...
If you’re yelling at your kids, you’re not alone. Yelling seems to have become something of a parenting epidemic. Some are even calling it “the new spanking”. Why are so many dedicated, intelligent, aware parents losing control?
How can I tell if I'm autistic? Signs of autism in adults finding it hard to understand what others are thinking or feeling. getting very anxious about social situations. finding it hard to make friends or preferring to be on your own. seeming blunt, rude or not interested in others wit...
There’s a movie that’s going to come up, that’s going to show what happens when you take this kind of junk food away. The child in the movies is five, and she’s a nonverbal autistic girl, and you get her on a real food diet, get the vegetable oils and sugars out of her...
(2002) which is quoted as showing a positive effect for the casein free, gluten free diet in terms of ''blind rated assessments of autistic traits, non-verbal cognitive level (IQ), motor functioning, and a range of parental report measures'' (p. 117). Millward et al. (2008) in their...
it was eventually found that the “helpers” were actually prompting the autistic to communicate, and it was pretty much a scam, although perhaps an unwitting one. (It’s the equivalent of a Ouija board, where people think that they are not guiding the pointer but really are.) Here, let...