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I use the term “super masculine” to refer to the left brain logical processing. A little experiment that reults in interesting outcomes is to hold a poster off to the right visual side of an autistic or Asperger’s child. If you hold it there for a few seconds, their comprehension is relatively high. If you hold it in front of them, their comprehension is relatively low.

This is due to the limiting of input to the right hemisphere which creates the confusion in the brain’s sorting of priority of input (focus). Each eye has two nerves which split and cross over to input to the opposite side of the brain. Thus the right side of the right eye goes to the left hemisphere while the left side of the right eye goes to the right hemisphere. The same pattern occurs in the left eye. Thus by holding the poster in the right field of view, input is predominantly in the left hemisphere and logical processing is maximized with minimal emotional input confusion.

Please do not confuse logical intelligence with emotional creative intellligence. The two have different atttributes.

In many of the people, it is the ability to utilize both aspects of consciousness that resulted in their greatness. Problem is, the process of combining the two comes after the proverbial “Dark Night of the Soul” is experienced. This is what led to Lincoln’s extreme depression for many years. When a person comes out of that experience and the attributes combine, many will explain that a profound religious experience had occurred. Often altruism then appears.

This process is similar to, but not exactly the same as the experience of being filled with the “Spirit” that gave the extreme knowledge to Jesus’ unlearned disciples.

Very true. The problem is balance. While consciousness shifts to allow for extreme intelligence, learning and logical processing ability, it is at the expense of emotional development and decreased ability for social interaction.

One major problem with autism is the extreme expression of emotions when they are experienced, often leading to flinging of the arms and uncontrollable crying. The problem is that suppressing this emotion actually increases its frequency. If it is validated at an early age and then replaced with healthy expressions, the child gradually becomes more comfortable experiencing emotions and gains more balance. The first hour after school is critical for pressure relief from the days accumulated tensions.

Just a side comment.... Just as the Autism is a logical processing disorder, MS is an emotional disorder. Please allow me to rephrase that... both are emotional disorders....just that in autism the person has abandoned or intellectualizes emotions while in MS the emotions are internalized to suppress immune function as a form of self punishment. I’ve noticed a pattern in that MS symptoms increase when the person is in a healthy relationship and drecrease when the person is in an unhealthy relationship.