My First Thoughts!

The First Picture Thoughts

I often wondered where I was; literally, I would loose track of where I was standing or sitting or even loose track of the fact I was walking, I would sit on the edge of Grandmas chair as she read me a book and totally loose track of the idea where I was and I was unknowingly following the book with my brain generated images- something like your daydream but more complicated. Somehow for what ever the reason I would come back to reality and again become aware I was sitting on Grandma’s chair and even realize time had moved on 10 minutes but just where was I for those 10 minutes? Mom would talk to me and I kept wondering where she went? She would disappear! I often wonder how I got a peanut butter sandwich and chicken noodle soup and yet couldn’t remember telling her that was what I wanted for lunch. I would often hold my hand in front of my face and wonder where it was? I would move it and could sometimes feel the air move from it but WHERE did my hand go? It took many many years to finally realize my optic vision was getting shorted or turned off as my picture thoughts absently tried to develop. The more I flapped my hands in an effort to see them the more puzzling it became.

I would watch TV and find myself watching a different program again with my brain generated thoughts than the one the others were watching. Every time I heard Jackie Gleason scream,” to the moon Alice to the moon” That instantly sparked a picture thought for me of a space ship going to the moon. While others thought that was humorous and seen the subtle idea of it that it was funny for them it made me think with what I now call a picture thought. That was a motion picture thought, one of the basics of proficient picture thinking that we have figured out today.

Not only were these brain generatated images my basic thought process they were invisible to everyone else around me. No one knew I was really keeping up and in some cases well beyond where they thought I was intellectually. I just didn’t have a way figured out to communicate and translate my good thoughts to your words to be spoken. As Dad and I set one night, he was flabbergasted tutoring me with the Dick, Jane and Spot first grade readers and was worried to death of my lack of progress, He said you should be able to read this by now? I was stuck for the first time that my thoughts were not his thoughts? All he wanted me to say to him was the SIMPLE words like “Dick ran up the hill” but, I had literally figured out how steep the hill was and how long it would take him to get there but yet thanks to dad’s efforts I had to thankfully come up with a way to water down that thought into words Dad would appreciate. I literally sprang up in the middle of the night that night from a deep sleep and said to my self something like “Dick Ran up the hill” I had unknowingly figured out what I needed to do get those words watered down to something understandable. I was always border line special education material and just when I was considered for special education I would pull off a big ‘picture thought event’ and simply do something totally unexpected and thus squelch the talk of special education yet again.

I would have given a million dollars to any of my teachers or tutors and family friends that would have said what are your picture thoughts regarding this? What kind of Picture thought did you use for that thought? Of IF they would have said “still picture thoughts are better for translating to traditional words.” Motion pictures are great for history type questions. Of Course no one knew I was thinking in pictures and thankfully in this day and age (1960’s) my obvious lack of eye contact was ignored as long as I answered the question correctly. Similarly I was obsessed with cars and while that was odd it was seen as a means to keep me interested and intrigued in school work. When I figured out how to do division a seemingly impossible task in my development on the chalk board and the tutor’s house after school dad was able to break the barrier by having me figure miles per gallon on a car. It was the same thing! Hindsight tells me I had Picture thought figured out for that and it just happened to be the same thing in a little different disguise. I have found lots of splinter skills and obsessions once figured out simply flow over into life at large.

As I tired to blend into life, I unknowingly started streamlining my brain generated images so they could keep up with traditional thoughts that I was being force fed. If you will it is like pressing the fast forward button on a tape recorder. I now can tell you via the 20 -20 of hindsight if my picture thoughts were not fully developed and translated correctly I was very dyslexic If my brain generated image of the letter “S” for example was supposed to be “5 “ I often would never realize it instantly. Not only were small things like letters and numbers backward and upside down and wrong side out my thoughts often were out of a logical order as well as seen by the traditional thinker. Part of this was Picture thought is way more precise and complicated than your thought is and thus when I had to explain something in your thought I had to unknowingly water down my thought and somehow give the logical to you explanations you wanted. This super fast for me streamlining of my picture thoughts also gave rise to stuttering.

Stuttering seems to be kind of verbal version of dyslexia. If I have 2-3-4-5 completed picture thoughts that ALL can be converted to words to be spoken I have found I can stutter for hours trying to discover which completed picture thought to use. Once I decide on what complete picture thought to translate to words the stuttering is gone and I can talk normally again. Completed Picture thoughts can be very complicated and very intense so we often have 2-3-4-5 versions of a final picture thought that can be converted to words. Each completed picture thought has a bit of different twist to it and one thought might work well with one type of audience or another might do better with another crowd. We seem to get stuck stuttering at the beginning of a statement deciding on what one to talk about. Once we decide on one, we can simply do speech with ease. Not only does this stuttering issue hold up with complete thoughts it can be repeated with single words or lite thoughts.

Well now, this is the very basics all of this constitutes my picture thoughts and it has never been in a text book before. More complicated versions of this type of thought might well explain great minds like Alan Turing, father of the computer, Einstein, George Washington Carver and the savant abilities of Rain Man. Picture thoughts are brain generated invisible to you and you know a picture is worth a 1000 words and our autism –picture thoughts are worth a million thoughts as well as, a 1000 words. Our logic is a very natural obvious process to us and again has never been in a text book before and I’m sure once a few psychology professionals hear us out and unite our anthropology we can not only explain Einstein ,dyslexia ,stuttering and many other things we might even prove to be the living missing link in evolution.

We Are Only Dreaming

WE ARE ONLY DREAMING

No Pun intended - I speak the truth- If a traditional person were to "know us" they would after meeting us on an autism level think-gee they are thinking with my day dreams-Technically it is much more than that but, when we don't hear you and our optic vision is off (lack of Eye contact) we are trying to think with our natural for us at least autism thought process.

If you have ever tried and probably been not real successful at explaining a day dream or a sleep dream you have had you have experienced what it is we do autistically to convert our thoughts to words and actions and traditional communication. Your Dreams are very TAME and for us would be a 'no brainier' as we would translate them to words with extreme ease. Our picture based invisible to you picture thoughts are very complex and after all a picture is worth a 100 words, so which 1000 words to we use? How do you translate that autism thought to something takable and do it in a timely manor? We do it with Proficient picture thoughts many levels above what Temple Wrote about in her book Thinking in Pictures.

If you knew of our double-blind autism experience (or would be allowed to hear of it, in autism circles) you would see how our level of picture thoughts eventually mimic traditional thought. You would be amazed at our picture in picture thoughts and how they allow us to keep up with body language and give us a means to do timely speech. You would be shocked to learn how much of the conversation we have is learned and fits the rule of "the 99 conversations people have" Aspie in our group often figure out most conversations and just fill in the blanks with current information as even our best picture thought translations can't keep up with fast paced human conversation. Could you explain a day dream in the course of a fast normal paced conversation and not pre think about it?

Now then if your working too fast and your picture thoughts are inside out and backwards that usually means your results in the words you think and write are probably dyslexic, If you get 2-3-4-5 complete picture thoughts done at once and you can't decide which one to use you will probably stutter until you choose one thought to translate to speech. Every autistic person has his own picture thought dictionary we make as go threw life and perhaps we don't always make the best of associations for later life so that slows us down even more even if we do become pretty good at picture thought. You will see just how a picture thought becomes a spoken word if we are lucky. If we are really lucky you will see how we condinse our picture thought in to a streamlined autism process so that we might really have a chance at conversation. You will see AFTER we have learned picture thought how we ADD in emotions and body language to our normal functioing persona. You will see that your traditional thought automaticaly (if your really normal ) does all of this with ease. Actually you will be shocked to realize if you knew us that your normal thought is simply a perfectly honed and shortcutted version of our picutre thoughts.

Picture thought-your daydream based thoughts are indeed our baseline thought process our default natural first line thoughts. Once you figure them out like we have you will see how autism picture thoughts are simply the building blocks of the human mind and how your traditional thoughts are simply a completed version of our thoughts which are really yours in superslowmotion. You see how when miss the social clues and the body language why we miss that stuff, you will defiantly see how we can be so 'smart' as we are finally able to describe a very complicated thoughts. Our Thoughts are many more times more detailed than your simple daydreams. Splinter skills and obsession were once our natural learning hallway and those of us allowed to go there and explore our own insight also figured out along how to connect Autism Thoughts to the real world. NONE OF THIS has been a text book before so please don't expect any autism 'professional' to know or respect what it is we have done, it is just too obvious and worse yet detrimental to the autism establishment that missed the entire point to autism.

As for Autism or psychology ever admititng to us don't count on it ,I know from the inside information of this this autism thought process the normal thought you use has one serious flaw and that is emotions, they too often rule your logic process and thus despite our obvious figured out autism and connection to the real world we have been labled as anything but 'expert'. Greed and Ego also shortcuts in the normal human thought process also plays in with emotions and do their part in making man so ignorant. I am 43 now and short of a major event in mankinds history ,I will (we will) never live long enough to overcome this emotional greed and ego barrier the traditional thinker represents. In simple terms how can we ever overcome the 1000's of 'experts' of autism and psychology that will not even give us the time of day for fear our double-blind knowlege is not good for their trade. It is too bad people quit learning when they are too young and even worse think they figured it all out. All the Autism professionals have to do is unite our anthropology glean our information but doing that would cripple their own status-now then what professional would fathom committing suicide?



Rich Shull,,,, Http://prerainmanautism.blogspot.com

"The world is divided in to three classes of people: a very small group thatmakes things happen, a somewhat larger group that watches things happen, andthe great multitude which never knows what happened."Nicholas Murray ButlerFormer President of Columbia University1931 Nobel Peace Prize winner

"The world is divided in to three classes of people: a very small group thatmakes things happen, a somewhat larger group that watches things happen, andthe great multitude which never knows what happened."Nicholas Murray ButlerFormer President of Columbia University1931 Nobel Peace Prize winner

Autism All figured out ALAN TURING: The Enigma By Andrew Hodges Simon and Schuster New York. Copyright 1983 Related Item PBS-BBC show entitled Breaking the Code by Hugh Whitmore, based on The Enigma.

Autism Success in Spurts

Functioning Double Blind Autism Still Works, Despite the Best Efforts of "Experts".

Of course, success is success and modern autism takes credit for it thinking it was something they have done.

I have met many people over the years in the autism spectrum some people are really very well connected to their autistic loved ones and these people kind of let a few things go that modern autism would condemn. Perhaps they don't do a diet, perhaps they allow the person to have a splinter skill or obsession or even let them slip by without giving the eye contact. Some people know and realize their autistic person has great thoughts locked inside and although they don't present so well there are good thoughts there trying to get out. They take the time and the put fort the effort to explore and dabble a bit into the insight that their autistic person displays but no one else will connect to.

Occasionally I hear of spurt of growth or insight displayed by the autistic person and the scope of the revelation is such that the person might only read at the 2nd grade level but what they displayed was clearly high school junior high or even college level stuff, and their family is SHOCKED as they where did that come from? Why can't it be repeated yet again? (everyday)? Well, It can be!

Odds are this person is a picture thinker and those picture thoughts just happened to, for once, have the right timing and circumstances to be able to be converted to words. Modern Autism has no clue we think in one very progresive and complicated language and talk in your language and we must learn a conversion process to get Autism thought to speech. Autism has no clue that when our lack of eye contact (and sometimes lack of hearing) signals you we are out of it-we are actually using that time or should be in looking at and figuring out our picture thought-brain generated images we use to think with as our primary thought process. Not only do we have to learn how to convert those ImageStream's to words we need to also learn still pictures, motion pictures, picture in picture, projection and 3 d , 4 d type of autism thoughts as well. If we learn all of that stuff that has never been in a text book before we call that proficient picture thought and it is a very close second to traditional thought you use and are trying so hard to teach us.

Our double-blind experience from people all over the world has yielded this insight and we are definitely on the wrong page of life to ever be admitted and even listed to by the "experts" of a Billion Dollar Autism Empire. The really good news is our double blind experience could actually be repeated and taught and condensed so that it could be taught by 6th grade. Autism Thought is only complicated if you don't know how it works or what it is made of-it took our inside information to figure that out. A Ph.D. in real life however is not good enough it seems, no matter how well we actually do autism. Again as I say all over this blog there is little or no difference between the autistic savant, the village idiot or our high functioning people in our group we all share the same picture thoughts (invisible to you) and it is only our ability to convert Autism to traditional speech and language that connects us to the real world. Perhaps autism really is the slow motion building blocks of the human mind all figured out?

Please note however all the Autism success I mention in this post is based on Picture Thinking what I consider to be autism. Picture thought autism is typically the oldest version of autism and the stuff we have figured out and the stuff Rain Man era Autism forgot or lost track of in its zeal to grow and 'help." It is what Alan Turing (1912-1954) used to invent the computer with It is how and what we have figured that we do normal life with. I have found many modern Autistic people don't have the first insight to picture thought, they don't have our keen senses, pain tolerance or obsession, splinter skills or preference to be alone. Even some modern aspie instantly realize our / their picture thoughts they seem to be hard wired for it. Our natural first language (No, it has never been in a text book before) is picture thought.

Rich Shull,,,, Http://prerainmanautism.blogspot.com

Posts and quotes from the book: ALAN TURING: The Enigma By Andrew Hodges Simon and Schuster New York. Copyright 1983 Related Item PBS-BBC show entitled Breaking the Code by Hugh Whitmore, based on The Enigma.

Driving 911

Real Life working autism kind of gliding over some of the finer points of life.



Driving some of the Sept. 11 Highjackers (reference to the 9-11 events in America)

Sept 10, I was at work in Columbus Ohio at the Airport location of National Car Rental. I worked from 4 PM to something shuttling cars and people to and from the National lot to the Airport location. Most of my job was spent moving clean and dirty cars from one spot to another and some of my job entailed shuttling a few customers occasionally and even driving all over town to exchange cars and unlocking stranded customers. This job was very boring for most people and goodness know we went threw our share of shuttlers but, Autistically I was board as can be but with my limited normal functioning mind this was an interesting job. I had to earn my living via my normal functioning ability and thus the shuttling job was kind of perfect job. Yes, Autistic people can drive and do it well we can do a lot of things but the only thing is the 'experts' of Autism "know better" than we do.

Well about 5 o clock a semi tractor shows (MS Carriers) up in front of National and it is later to be discovered it was Mausoui (later arrested as one of the masters of 911) Semis, RV's and large vehicles were pretty common visitors in front of National as they could not get to the air port due to low clearance issues so I often drove those people up to the Air Port in one of the cars I was shuttling and dropped them off at the rental counters. They left their rig on the side of the road or parked it in our lot. Mausoui actually parked his on our lot after I prompted him to get it off the side of the road It was blocking our view of oncoming traffic and the Airport police were extremely vigilant and would probably try to have the rig towed. Perhaps, If I didn't make that offer the police would have checked out his rig and been alerted to something? It might have slowed down or stopped 9-11 ??

Mausoui and his passengers 4-5 others that showed up all got out of the tractor and all needed rental cars and all were going and needed to get the East coast cities of Philadelphia and Boston by 9 am the next day. They were quizzing me on what the biggest cars available were Mausoui wanted a Ford Taurus size car and others also wanted the biggest things they could get. Being mid week most of our fleet and the neighboring Hertz fleet was rented and the only things left were an occasional mini van and the SUV. I took a very nervous Mausoui up to the National counter at the Airport and he tried to calm down a bit as I talked with my practiced autism small talk I had learned for the benefit of my passengers.Small talk like this was figured out traditional thought that DID NOT need autistic picture thoughts so I could just be like a tape recorder and do my talk and still drive safely. A half hour later he returned and was greeted by his co conspirters in the National lot. Several got Chevy Blazers from some other agency one got a Taurus and they all met and parked around the Semi Cab and started unloading their gear from the semi tractor to their respective cars. All were talking of tomorrow and kept mentioning 9 Am in Boston and to be on time!

Interestingly, even I picked up on their nerviness and the entourage was a very odd mix of people from Arab decent and one odd out of place guy that was a tall Scandinavian type person.

Of Course, on Sept 11, the next day, hindsight tells us just what they were up to. Everyone was in such shock and no one really put two and two together instantly but I had a strange feeling about that event all night after I got home from work. A year or so later Mausoui who lived in Columbus was international front page news as he was arrested for being a leader in the 911 event and the local news showed his home and his picture and sure enough that is who I had driven to the Airport on Sept 10th. If only I had figured out a bit more?


Rich Shull,,,, Http://prerainmanautism.blogspot.com
Taglines

"The world is divided in to three classes of people: a very small group thatmakes things happen, a somewhat larger group that watches things happen, andthe great multitude which never knows what happened."Nicholas Murray ButlerFormer President of Columbia University1931 Nobel Peace Prize winner

"Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all, that the sheltered and protected can never experience" John Stuat Mill-Philosopher-1806-1873

Posts and quotes from the book: ALAN TURING: The Enigma By Andrew Hodges
Autism before Rain Man explained.
Simon and Schuster New York. Copyright 1983 Related Item PBS-BBC show entitled Breaking the Code by Hugh Whitmore, based on The Enigma.

Limits of Autism

The difference between stupidity and genius is genius has it limits! Albert Einstein


Everyone's favorite intellectual made this statement, and it is probably one of the most powerful ones ever written and it is very true. I think Einstein indeed knew people enough to know what made a person really tick. Our high functioning Autism Anthropology has also figured out this insight as well. People are just smart enough to be 'stupid' and not smart enough to know that they are ignorant of the wrong things and the resulting mess is what we call humanity. Man in general is also so gullible and sheep like that no one without a major experience or two to push them along can ever believe the obvious, their minds are not allowed to think on their own.

Weather we grew up Thinking in Pictures or had a different kind of social experience and we were lucky to know or figure out the obvious truths of our lives our different thought process it is all a moot point, as not one educated person ever had a course or a mindset adjustment to allow for something figured and never before in a text book-like our working autism. It is also a moot point in terms of we are too little too late and as we unintentionally cripple the autism empire of today the 'fathers of autism' know better than to even admit to us and open up a Pandora's box of human reasoning and truth man has never experienced before.

Autism is so simple it is complicated and those of us figuring it out can just cry alone as we mourn for the modern Autistic of today cursed by the very empire and egos of the people trying the hardest to "help." The day one of us has a developed splinter skill in Psychology is the day we might be listened to, until then we are too retarded or Rain Man like to ever be figured out as the normal thinker views us. INDEED the Autism experts are trying to figure us out and naturally (no pun, disrespect) are too ignorant and lack our inside insight thus they spin their wheels. -----Their worst crime is, -----they have refused for years on end now to admit to and help unite our anthropology and not only has mankind been cheated out of Einstein's experience and an explanation of many things besides Autism:autisitc families them selves have fallen victim to the Post Rain Man scourge of Autism the new modern hopeless and helpless condition invented and molded for the benefit of the Autism Empire. Sadly the only thing modern autism has done is simply exploit the obvious bad points to autism. They don't even know enough about autism to realize the lemon aide we made is very sweet and refreshing.

Autism has been pouring us into the hopeless mold for so many years now that we have too many generations in group homes and naturally this ideal does not promote the idea we don't have to be there. If only the Autism Empire would have not jumped the gun and absently took away our best chance at success? "Fat, Drunk and Stupid is no way to go threw life son" Dean Warmer to Flounder(?) in the movie Animal House(1980's). Perhaps this is the second best saying of all time.

Rich Shull,,,, Http://prerainmanautism.blogspot.com

Autism Body and Language

Autism and Body Language a Natural Impass.
Our Optic vison is actually Off (lack of eye contact)

Art work from the August 2006 edition of The Oprah Magazine page 175 . This Art work was for the Article called EVERY MOVE YOU MAKE. A tribuite the human thought process and the ideal of body language , your ulitmate traditional Thought process. Autisitc people can do just as well ! Read on!

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There comes a point in every ones journey when everything in life (if your lucky) just hums. If you have been real lucky and experienced no real troubles in life and you might well have reached the plateau of all human relationships and are able to read and do body language. Body language is the Shorthand shortcut traditional thinkers use to make sense of their world and in their mind it is one of the ultimate goals of life. As the pictures above show you even have pointers in maistream magazines on the finer points of it. If your good at this odds are you do life pretty well. Sometimes entire conversations are made and understood with a gesture or body movement that is mutually understood. Oddly body language kind of mimics and might even take the place of our picture thoughts. They are close clones if nothing else. Could it be EVERYONE is a picture thinker? I often wonder if our figured out autism thoughts are just the slow motion building blocks of the human mind?

Remember this next bit is news to most autism professionals but WE DO NOT see the body language of others as our optic vision is turned off or simply not working correctly during our autism thoughts. The glazed look LACK Of eye contact should be your clue an autism thought is trying to develop DON"T kill that thought by making us pay attention rather let it develop and you will be rewarded with higher functioing Autism.

Autism believe it or not has a similar "thought process" that mimics your body language allows us to really do something close to a traditional life and in fact if we have figured out proficient picture thoughts we can actually participate in your body language game to some degree. While Body language is your pentacle of thought it is 180 'opposite of our Autism thoughts. Our Autism Thought can be just as useful in conversation and speech if we absently figured out our autism as many of us have, mostly by trial and error. Autism too has soft spot for our own type of 'Nirvana' only thing is the traditional thinker doesn't have the keys to figure us out nor will they even bother to talk to autism's best functioning populations our even unite us for a conference. However they do marvel at our insight at times and never ask how did we do that? The computer your reading this on was a product of the autistic guy Alan Turing.

Granted if we didn't present so strange and even stupid and if modern autism education would have got a hold of the right end of the stick we might well have autism under control by now like many of us had done on our own to the chrigan of the 1000s of autism professionals that think and know us as retards. If only they knew autism thoughts were too complicated and need watered down and if only the knew we think in a 'different" language than anyone else If only the knew their help is making us the very zombies they are trying to prevent if only Autism "professionals" would listen for a change we really would experience a change for the better in Autism and even education and psychology to mention a few more things that would grow with our knowledge.

It is too bad professionals no matter the discipline are not that professional and get stuck in a rut and keep patting themselves on the back as they peer review each other numbers and studies in a self-serving pity party that works to keep entire careers afloat. Hopefully this is just absent ignorance without ill will but as long as autism's best performing populations are never allowed a voice in this autism empire, we will never know just how malicious autism professionals can be. Do they really care if we are "fat, drunk and stupid" (saying) they might well prefer that it makes their life so much easier and tends to make their studies more moldable? Suddenly since Rain Man we have become (for the most part) the group home groupies all at the prompting of the good will of Autism's professionals. Someday if this Empire keeps getting bigger autism will have its own Labor Day telethon like Multiple Sclerosis has had for years now. All of this big business autism could be proven a moot point If we are ever admitted to. The sooner the better, as we are not out to purposely kill the autism empire we are out to tell the world of our never in print before human thought process that works and that has never been in a text book before. How can something that has never been in a text book before ever be learned in a college course? How can educated people that purposely quit learning ever do more than spin their wheels? There are Ph.D.s in real life and Ph D.'s form a college. You would think some college somplace needs to offer a course or a way to merge the two types for the beneifit of all of mankind?


Rich Shull http://prerainmanautism.blogspot.com

Math Guru Refuses High Honor

Is this Autism at work? The following is an Article about a Russian Mathematician that won a great prize but seemingly couldn't care less in terms of what a traditional thinker might think.
From the article quoted in its entirety below,

"Grigory Perelman, a 40-year-old native of St. Petersburg, won a Fields Medal — often described as math's equivalent of the Nobel prize — for a breakthrough in the study of shapes that experts say might help scientists figure out the shape of the universe. "


"John Ball, president of the International Mathematical Union, said that he had urged Perelman to accept the medal, but Perelman said he felt isolated from the mathematics community and "does not want to be seen as its figurehead." Ball offered no further details of the conversation."-
From Rich, Of course, I don't know all the details here but, I can relate to this guy NOT wanting to become "popular" or be seen as a rising star. If he is Autistic we are NOT wired that way and socially for sure we can be such idiots that what ever good work we do might be tarnished if we run our mouths too much. If Mr. Perleman is indeed a picture thinker and his optic vision is occasionally turned off during his picture thoughts he would naturally miss lots of body language etc. If he does not have proficient Picture thoughts figured out he really would not be comfortable accepting or even talking about his great achievement. Proficient Picture in Picture Thoughts almost mimic traditional thoughts. Autism Thoughts are indeed very able to do the math like he as done. Autism thoughts, keep in mind are naturally different and complicated and need watered down to be communicated. Yes, I know we can present as a "sack of rocks" but that is due to the fact we can't communicate our autism thoughts with ease not because our thoughts are too "stupid." Modern Autism likes to operate from the standpoint we are as stupid as we present. ( And look where it has got them.)

""Proving the conjecture — an exercise in acrobatics with mindboggling imaginary doughnuts and balls — is anything but trivial. Colleagues say Perelman's work gives mathematical descriptions of what the universe might look like and promises exciting applications in physics and other fields. ""-
- comment from Rich ,,, Now, If this not, a good example of autism thought - I don't know what is? Picture Thoughts more Advanced picture thoughts (that have never been in a text book before) are very ABLE to solve problems like this in a such a way that we are engaged in the problem from a natural level. If you were to take our thoughts MAP them out put them on paper it would yield 1000s of pages of 'technical' stuff 'we naturally understand. Once a traditional Thinker sorted threw all of this "mess" they too might end up with the same thing we did. Eventually. If we are lucky as a few of us are, and we have figured out a few social things, as well as, autism we can better communicate our ideas.


""Perelman is believed to live with his mother in St. Petersburg. Repeated calls over many days to a telephone number listed as Perelman's went unanswered. Acquaintances refused to give out his address or the number they use to contact him, saying he did not want to talk to the media. "
-From Rich He has a very good point in my book again we are not great at social things perhaps a colleague might accept the award on his behalf and handle the PR of it. Perhaps Mr. Perelman like many "autistic People" is more worried about the entire project and sees no use in the distraction of "dealing with the public."

Shockingly again I'm guessing , (hope I'm definitely wrong) his beloved mother might well be narcissistic as well. IF that is the case she will not take kindly to his fame and fortune and popular status. Narcissistics wrap you around their finger and make your life hell if they are not the top cheese. It might well be, easier NOT to accept the prize and its well deserved reward in order to keep peace in the family. Even a narcissistic person could take this family fame as in insult to them. Autism for some reason lends it self often to an older child 'baby-sitting" a looped parent. We have lot of people in similar situations in our Autism Anthropology. Perhaps that is another nasty little detail of our double-blind experience that is not welcome news to Autism researchers. Keep in mind 40 is old enough to missed the diagnosis of Autism and thus he was (we were) lucky to have missed Rain Man 's Curse of Modern Autism where they take away our very best chance at a real life. Sadly modern Autism especially in America has been blown all out of proportion and it is really rather simple, but with 1000s of autism experts on the loose it is naturally more complicated than it ever had to be. We all pay the price as our loved ones sit in group homes.



Hear is the entire article I found on the web,

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060822/ap_on_re_eu/spain_math_genius Russian refuses math's highest honor By DANIEL WOOLLS, Associated Press Writer Tue Aug 22, 6:20 PM ET MADRID, Spain - A reclusive Russian won the math world's highest honor Tuesday for solving a problem that has stumped some of the discipline's greatest minds for a century — but he refused the award. Grigory Perelman, a 40-year-old native of St. Petersburg, won a Fields Medal — often described as math's equivalent of the Nobel prize — for a breakthrough in the study of shapes that experts say might help scientists figure out the shape of the universe. John Ball, president of the International Mathematical Union, said that he had urged Perelman to accept the medal, but Perelman said he felt isolated from the mathematics community and "does not want to be seen as its figurehead." Ball offered no further details of the conversation. Besides shunning the award for his work in topology, Perelman also seems uninterested, according to colleagues, in a separate $1 million prize he could win for proving the Poincare conjecture, a theorem about the nature of multidimensional space. The award, given out every four years, was announced at the mathematical union's International Congress of Mathematicians. Three other mathematicians — Russian Andrei Okounkov, Frenchman Wendelin Werner and Australian Terence Tao — won Fields medals in other areas of mathematics. They received their awards from King Juan Carlos to loud applause from delegates to the conference. But Perelman was not present. "I regret that Dr. Perelman has declined to accept the medal," Ball said. Perelman's work is still under review, but no one has found any serious flaw in it, the math union said in a statement. The Fields medal was founded in 1936 and named after Canadian mathematician John Charles Fields. It come with a $13,400 stipend. Perelman is eligible for far more money from a private foundation called The Clay Mathematics Institute in Cambridge, Mass. In 2000, the institute announced bounties for seven historic, unsolved math problems, including the Poincare conjecture. If his proof stands the test of time, Perelman will win all or part of the $1 million prize money. That prize should be announced in about two years. The Poincare conjecture essentially says that in three dimensions you cannot transform a doughnut shape into a sphere without ripping it, although any shape without a hole can be stretched or shrunk into a sphere. Proving the conjecture — an exercise in acrobatics with mindboggling imaginary doughnuts and balls — is anything but trivial. Colleagues say Perelman's work gives mathematical descriptions of what the universe might look like and promises exciting applications in physics and other fields. "It is very important indeed because it really gives us an insight into geometry and in particular the geometry of the space we live in," said Oxford University math professor Marcus du Sautoy. "It does not say what the shape (of the universe) is. It just says, 'look, these are the things it could be.'" Academics have been studying Perelman's proof since he left the first of three papers on it on a math Web site in Nov. 2002. Normal procedure would have been to seek publication in a peer-approved journal. Three separate teams have presented papers or books explaining the details of Perelman's work, which draws heavily from a technique developed by another mathematician, Richard Hamilton of Columbia University. The Clay Mathematics Institute says the two men could conceivably share the Poincare money. Ball said he asked Perelman if he would accept that money. Perelman said that if he won, he would talk to the Clay institute. Perelman is believed to live with his mother in St. Petersburg. Repeated calls over many days to a telephone number listed as Perelman's went unanswered. Acquaintances refused to give out his address or the number they use to contact him, saying he did not want to talk to the media.

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