A Study

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This was post on the Yahoo group Psychiatry Research my Comments are in BLUE


A frown or a smile? Children with autism can't discern , Yes we can our High functioing Anthropology proves it time and again!

When we have a conversation with someone, we not only hear what they say, we see what they say. Eyes can smolder or twinkle. Gazes can be direct or shifty. “Reading” these facial expressions gives context and meaning to the words we hear.
In a report to be presented May 5 at the International Meeting for Autism Research in Seatlle, researchers from UCLA will show that children with autism can’t do this. They hear and they see, of course, but the areas of the brain that normally respond to such visual cues simply do not respond. From Rich Shull I beg to differ We are OFTEN deaf and blind the eyes might be open but they are not processing optic vision! Rather we are processing brain generated images we are using to think with-thinking in pictures or images streams. Also if our OPTIC Vision is OFF there is a good chance our hearing is too. The proficient picture thinkers of autism have figured all of this stuff out and sadly it has never been in a text book nor it discernible in Autism Research until ALL of the Temple Grandin types are admitted to. The thoughts we are figuring out are at one end of the scale more basic and even a sublevel thought for a normal thought we are being taught with OR we are doing something Savant or Einstein. Autism Is BOTH Mr/DD and Einstein. Odds are today it is MR/DD our double blind experience proves that.

Led by Mari Davies, a UCLA graduate student in psychology, and Susan Bookheimer, a professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, the research compared brain activity between 16 typically developing children and 16 high-functioning children with autism. While undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), both groups were shown a series of faces depicting angry, fearful, happy and neutral expressions. In half the faces, the eyes were averted; with the other half, the faces stared back at the children. Not even their autistic research subjects realized at the time their Optic and brain generated thoughts were interchanged thus while looking at the brain generated thoughts, they missed the social clues. With the typically developing group, the researchers found significant differences in activity in a part of the brain called the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (VLPFC), which is known to play a role in evaluating emotions. While these children looked at the direct-gaze faces, the VLPFC became active; with the averted-gaze pictures, it quieted down. In contrast, the autistic children showed no activity in this region of the brain whether they were looking at faces with a direct or an indirect gaze. If any autism research would be so kind as to study our anthropology of very high functioning people and put us threw those tests we could tell when we are picture thinking and we are using traditional thoughts, I bet that would answer a lot of questions. Our Thought process has NEVER been in a text book before! It is a different kind of human thought process. “This part of the brain helps us discern the meaning and significance of what another person is thinking,” Davies said. “When responding to someone looking straight at you, as compared to someone who’s looking away, the brain discerns a difference. When the other person looks away, the brain quiets down.” For instance, with angry expressions, the brain may quiet down, because when a negative gaze is averted, it is no longer seen as a direct threat.

“Gaze has a huge impact on our brains because it conveys part of the meaning of that expression to the individual. It cues the individual to what is significant,” Davies said. Once we learn advanced picture in picture thoughts the social thoughts to Autism we end up doing body language pretty well. While the results show the key role of eye gaze in signaling communicative intent, it also shows that autistic children, even when gazing directly into someone’s eyes, don’t recognize visual cues and don’t process that information. That may be why children diagnosed with autism have varying degrees of impairment in communication skills and social interactions and display restricted, repetitive and stereotyped patterns of behavior. Those of us figuring out our picture thoughts do better and better in real life as we mature and absently learn our picture thoughts Still and motion pictures are what Temple Grandin wrote about in Thinking in Pictures and our anthropology that has not be admitted to yet or studied adds picture in Picture thoughts Projection thoughts and 3 and 4 Dimension (Einstein and savant types) thoughts to the autism thoughts and in the end we nearly mimic normal thoughts like you use.


“They don’t pick up what's going on — they miss the nuances, the body language and facial expressions and sometimes miss the big picture and instead focus on minor, less socially relevant details,” Davies said. “That, in turn, affects interpersonal bonds.” Well, the good news If we were taught our never in print before picture thoughts we could and would do very well at life. Our High function anthropology proves that time and again. If took our odd experience and odd results that work studied them you could condense our experience into a 6 year autism school. Autism is not much different from a foreign language. The only trouble is it really is a foreign language to those research us thus they can't see and sometimes will not see the good in our experience as our provenance is missing. We are the very "retards" they are researching-how could we have figured out the obvious? (for one we have inside track and know what questions to ask)

Rich Shull Author autism Pre Rain Man Autism - inventor of the Turing Motor a 70% Efficient Green triple hybrid car motor.

Source: University of California - Los Angeles
http://www.physorg.com/news97595649.html