Posted on 09/07/2022 2:33:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway
I have told a few people that their babies were on the spectrum because I could just see it. Of course, they laughed -— and I certainly would never push the point. Months/years later they got the diagnosis. It’s like buying a new truck and suddenly noticing all the same make/model on the road that you never noticed before.
Thank you for the excellent post.
Also
Neuroligin 3 R451C mutation alters electroencephalography spectral activity in an animal model of autism spectrum disorders
https://molecularbrain.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13041-017-0290-2
I attended several classes on autism research at the American Psychiatric Ass’n conference, as well as an exteneded program on the effect of the gut biom on psychiatric disorders. Considering that 95% of the bodies serotonin and 5-Htp is produced in the enterochromaffin like cells in the gut, I would expect a considerable influence upon emotional supression.
The above article explains that the Neuroligin 3 R451C mutation also downregulation of the inhibitory γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) receptors.
Children who encounter childhood trauma have a similar shift in consciousness prematurely from the emotional child to a logical sense of self to suppress emotional pain. These are the 7 yr old going on 35.
This shift normally begins around age 7 or 8 and continues through about 16 when they have a strong self identity.
The EEG patterns in autism reflect a decreased Delta and Theta frequencies of early childhood which are the emotional foundation. They prematurely shift into the Alpha frequency relating to the logical consciousness.
In teenagers with Asperger’s, I noticed that they need about a half hour alone after school to release the emotional tension built up during the day. After this pressure release, they are fine.
When the thalamus receives both emotional and logical input, the thalamus blocks the emotional input creating increased tension and frustration. If only logical stimulus is received the tension does not build up.
This topic has fascinated me for the past 30 years as I resembled the Asberger’s child in many ways due to an emotional trauma prior to age 4 that created a shift prematurely in me.
I feel it just by being near them.
I am most assuredly NOT a victim.
Comment was tongue and cheek.
My apologies -— I don’t always “get” humor. I tend to take things rather literally.
I look at the things they define as Autism “spectrum”, or AD(H)D, or any number of other “diagnoses” and I thank God that this stuff wasn’t going on when I was in elementary school ... I would almost certainly have been “diagnosed”, tracked as “special ed”, not properly challenged (because of a “disability”), and probably not ended up where I am today. (field test engineer with a lot of responsibility). They almost got me with the “speech therapist”, but she declared me “cured” after a half a year or so ...
Thanks for the education.
Thank you for sharing your very interesting observations and first hand experience.
Take a close look at the branches of the vagus nerves, which become the 10th cranial nerve. I have found that the disruption of this inhibits and disrupts the entire nervous system and several organs, including the gut.
I work more with consciousness, trying to understand its influences upon the biochemistry.
Fascinating subject. Thanks for sharing.
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Habituation refers to the decreased and change in response due to memory and dimishment due to lack of novelty. Not the copycat features that occur with a cognitively intact infant mimicking facial expression ie tongue in and out or wiggling. With some infants one could get them to mirror tongue movements from one side of mouth to the other.
Take a look at Glycine too. Another powerful inhibitory neurotransmitter.
The key to all the activity is to 8ncrease fem8nine consciousness and to help the child experience the feeling of Love.
Love will open up the closed neural circuitry.
Holding the child, preferably against your bare skin and communicating in a loving way is the best medicine.
Sorry for the typos. I’m sitting in the hot tub in the dark and my glasses are fogged up!
Agreed. Of course that will require a sea change in the erasing of womanhood direction that we are heading.
You can take your resentment and your spectrum and show them
to the driver of the short bus for a ride to the tard hall.
In the real world, we do not celebrate defectives.
before posting! massive run on paragraph! (It was late!)
I will look at glycine. Conservative mind posted something about use of NAC and Glycine as aging support so I began to supplement with glycine.
Glycine is an inhibitory neurotransmitter like GABA.
Thank you for that information!
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