Proper Hearing -Keeping your mind function

An observation  from the depths of working autism.

As people age, naturally hearing loss occurs ,nothing new here.  However  with my keen Autistic hearing clouding my view of the world I can tell you the smaller unknown higher pitches most humans don't realize they work with are indeed necessary to keep our brain function working.  The hearing I'm talking about is along the line of a decibel meter stuff. Of course, the natural hearing we know is vital as well.  Simply put the less hear the less we process and less able our minds become. The less we hear the less responsive our minds become.  I seen this first hand stranded here in the nursing home as many residents here don't hear a thing. I find those with more perfect hearing really do have the strongest minds. Those with little or no hearing have a huge loss of brain function. If an aid or someone works very hard to complete a conversation  the person might actually comes up with a full full response just like normal.  This indicates the mind is probably still there just not activated as there are no hearing signals to work from .

I would think EVERYONE needs a proper hearing test and hearing aids as they age so all their brain function keep working.  Again current psychology and thinking has no idea we process more noise than we think we do.

Anyway more to the point personally my parents are now in the loss hearing stage of life. My father is very proactive with his hearing and keeps it going the best he can.  He is blessed with very good mind function and his reactions are still crisp and his thoughts are very current and up with the conversation.  On the other hand mom need hearing aids desperately and has for some time now . Sadly her missing the of the words and noises she needed to be hearing has messed with her mind and she had lost lots of mental function.  I noticed, at recent family gathering mom is not all connected and is off in her own world not because she is rude but because she doesn't hear the clues  to keep her connected.  She was putting cookies in the oven out of time and in the wrong temp setting as she missed  all the conversation we had talking about turning the oven down and switching from one dish to another. When she drives she is startled and should not be when she is shocked or 'made aware' of something at the last moment.  Her missed reaction and late reaction  makes for poor driving.

Her hearing has been getting so bad for years now and she was blessed at work by the fact she could turn the volume up on her switchboard headsets.  That gave her the false since she was fine. Trust me AFTER she got off the hearing boosted  phone she could not hear.  After awhile when you don't hear things your mind goes blank with inactivity and then your mental function dies. I find I don't even try to talk to her anymore she has lost so much mental capacity that simple conversations are just pure work . As more and more of the mind shuts down from inactivity ,in this case not getting the vital signals from our hearing the mind becomes less and less able. 

I hope if  she did get her hearing tested and did do hearing aids she might at least become more responsive and perhaps a better driver if nothing else. I predict her mind function would improve as she would start processing more stuff again . I wonder about the odd of that happening however, previous conversations on this subject and indeed the purchase of a general use hearing aid were fruitless.

I hope someday when psychology finally has a real grasp on the mind , it might know and realizes  the importance of hearing and everyone in the nursing will be fitted with the best of hearing aids . It would go miles in keeping our mind functioning.

rich shull on the Blog Pre Rain Man Autism

The mind exposed! C Rumsy Art Work

Dear Readers  I found this very interesting picture on the web and it is attributed by C Ramsey. I have no idea who this might be or the real owner of this art work. However if I might be allowed to use this art work it is a very accurate description in art of my autistic mind. I thank the owners for the privilege of their art work and will of course give proper credit for the work if I ever find out the real details. Meanwhile thanks .

The very accurate picture is a good way to describe the picture thought mind I learned by happenstance  by learning Autism the long hand version of human thoughts. My Mind is very much set up like this and in essence is just like all the layers upon layer of files here. Every time I have a thought I used to 'open a file' glean a picture thought from it and then put it back in on the shelf. I often looked up bits and pieces of many different thoughts and made a new folder -new thought- as I learned things.  While this was happening my OPTIC vision lack of eye contact autism thoughts were busy looking at these internal brain generated images.  Eventually these super thoughts became watered down to the point I no longer use them and I have defaulted to 'normal thoughtless thoughts' all humans use UNLESS I am thinking in Einstein Mode. These Deep thoughts are indeed where the Einstein  comes from .

I know know  none of this has ever been in a text book before, and it makes no sense to the best of education or psychology but IF science understood the way the mind works -my explanation would be understood directly as it is written. Meanwhile this is a very true 'picture' of the way the autistic mind really works.

Ironically I have had a big problem with dyslexia all my life and while today it is mostly solved I can 'explain it" here by simply stating that often when I think in pictures the picture thoughts I look at are in the slide projector backwards,, hence the dyslexia issues. 

Rich Shull on the Blog Pre Rain Man Autism

Solved Autism Any Intellignet Fool can make trouble.

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...it takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.  Albert Einstein 

read more at  http://wwwbrainyquotes.com/quotes/authors/a/albert_einstein.html#1xzzinfp5Etih.

Einstein is often said to be Autistic  and I have to agree. His logic and insight and courage to stand up  with our autistic reason is an insight I can feel ,appreciate and do just like Einstein did. Autistic reason is something that is an inside thing that no amount of  autism researchers or psychologists will ever discover the insight we know from coming up and out of the bottom of the gene pool.  Autism is just the long hand version of human thought and nothing more. Sadly , human thought is very short sighted and humans think in short cut thoughts all the time and never know any different. If one comes up from the bottom of the gene pool like we did- autistics  simply learned a different kind of human thought process.  The human thought system is very crude and basic and only presents as normal and contemporary by accident. Once we know the long hand version of human thought  your normal thoughts result. Sadly normal thought is not very good with anything but social things. It is no wonder the human race has not progressed too much. Emotions are indeed the short cuts of  all shortcuts the human mind unknowingly uses ; those impede mankind's progress more than a book burning or a war.

If psychology knew our thought system and lack of eye contact thought process they  would see where our Einstein thought comes from  and ALSO how stupid and primitive normal human thought  really is. Humans will be very humbled and embarrassed someday when they finally discover how slack our normal thoughts are.

The gist of this post is autism research is spinning it wheels with the best of Internet had made autism a mountain and it is really a mole hole.  Autism as I say is the key to mankind's mind and it will never be discovered  until more Autistic people like me that missed contemporary autism's curse  are united and our learning cure and curve is exposed.

Rich's story case in point,,,,, Automobile troubleshooting

My gift of automobile trouble shooting ability is just wild, I can fix anything from the 1900' to the most high tech marvel or twisted up mess some  less than stealer brand of car presents.  My key to this success is indeed the courage based in the autism genius and insight to go where no other mechanic dares to go.  With the keen senses of autism and the regular automobile knowledge 'everyone knows' I came up with a different kind of automobile mold. It came to pass as I learned a different kind of car that not even Henry Ford or Mercedes knew about the piston and cylinder motors they invented, they were just tinkering and first in line to discover the obvious.

Between the knowledge and the keen hearing and the resulting odd knowledge of the car motor that floats over the average mechanic it stands to reason automobiles will forever baffle the motoring public. Mechanics will always be parts re placers until they really know the nitty gritty engineering details that even Henry didn't know.  Honestly my best  and most effective repair of a car motor is an overhaul ,motor cleaning, in a can of oil. The motor needs to be spotless and clean and most cars will run perfect, even Chrysler's. The built up dirt simply impedes motor operation and some times to the point it makes the motor and it parts move slow or even stick to the point where it ruins the smooth operation of the car.  Once the motor is messed up it and slow it sets off the trouble codes in the computer and in reality there is nothing wrong with the computer but it sets off the trouble codes all the same. That sets off the parts re placers ,mechanics and then a comedy of error upon error results.


Trust me if you keep your motor  is this clean via 1500 mi oil changes it will run perfect and practically forever. The key to the whole motor ideal is simply keeping the dirt out of the motor and the only way to do that is change the oil . Oils last job in the motor is lubrication its first (unknown job)  is collecting the dirt of combustion.     

 

Yes as a matter of Fact, I have came up with a better motor the Turing Motor it features one central spinning cylinder and runs on compressed air ,electric and gas.  It is very green and will offer over 90 mpg in a reasonable car.  

Rich Shull on the blog Pre Rain Man Autism . 

Getting the Stiches out!

No Roxie, It didn't hurt!

Well three weeks after the operation on my shoulder, I finally got to the doctor's office to get the now well grown in stitches removed.  The doctor was setting beside me while he removed the stitches and Roxie was in front of me seeing my skin pulled very far, as the stitches finally realised. I could see Roxie, just wince in her pain I never felt.

I asked the doctor if it should hurt?  He didn't say much- until I commented you could remove the stitches with a machine gun and I would never feel it. The doctor had the puzzled look on his face just as nurses did in the hospital nurses and staff did as they realized I was mostly painless.  Once again Medical science has never had the privilege of experiencing our pain tolerance. Initially the doctor comment as all do, well it is good you don't feel pain. However, in reality it is damn dangerous when you don't feel pain. Case in point this shoulder was infected and 'hurting way too much for too long and thus that is why it got so bad and so messed up. The real surgery and damage to my body was much worse than it would have been had I felt something below 7 on the pain scale.

Well at least the stitches are gone and I can do a shower now. I discovered my shoulder movement is a bit less now but that is a small price to pay for keeping the shoulder in some working order.

Rich Shull on the blog Pre Rain Man Autism

Six Month Autism Xray's/scans

From the NBC Nightly News Feb. 17 2012

Please keep in mind Autism Speaks, the president of NBC and General Electric are all cozy bedfellows and partners in Autism Speaks thus a lot of the Autism Speaks news gets a push and perhaps a good spin from NBC. (Well it would stand to reason.)

The news clip at the end of the program was an Autism Speaks sponsored affair an the jest of it was at the age of 6 months suspected Autism kids could get a brain X-ray and the results would predict autism.  The hope was early treatment would benefit the kid.

My opinion is it really would benefit the kids IF Autism Speaks really knew the real autism mindset like we did. Those of us missing the Rain Man /Autism Speaks era finally figured out autism and of course we are too little late. The sad part it the experts exploring autism have never had to travel our road up from the bottom of the gene pool and had to learn how to think in pictures and convert those picture thoughts ,lack of eye contact thoughts to real normal thoughts. IF they had to that like we did Autism would be solved again. (Yes ,again).  Threw a comedy and tragedy of errors and getting a hold of the wrong end of the stick Autism  just exposed  the obvious and the root of autism that we discovered are under the surface and over looked as the experts are never going know to our insight. 

Autism if our old out-dated anthropology were united  and checked out and our learning curve was applied to contemporary Autism autism could just be a simple grade 1-6 pre school where we would emerge ready to face the world. We could even catch a ball and spawn a lot of Einstein's.  Autism is not a all complicated unless of course  your an Autism expert aimlessly wondering about trying to discover autism using a normal mind to try to discover something it has never experienced. Experience is the only real teacher in life and the day an autism expert come up the bottom of the gene pool or heaven for bid Autism Speak LISTENS autism could be cured again . Sadly, if autism were figured out again the train crash of  messed up contemporary autism mis diagnosis would cripple contemporary autism  practice. 

Yes, it might be good to x-ray kids young but it would be better just to teach autism kids true Autism skills something yet to be discovered again. Mean while the contemporary autism errors compound like the United States National debit burying the real simple working life autism  we have figured out in the grossly over blown autism epidemic partly sponsored by Autism Speaks and others too eager to 'help' so much to the point they wear blinders all the time. 

Autism is a psychology gold mine, and one of the few places in psychology that is popular and well funded so you can bet the best of doctors make a niche for themselves there and do their publish and parish game to keep their jobs . Meanwhile their research is totally off base and not even close to even touching the roots of autism-it has not even discovered despite being buried in plain sight.

Rich Shull on the Blog Pre Rain Man Autism       

BBC /Turing Pardon

6 February 2012 Last updated at 14:52 ET  FROM the BBC World service  online

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Government rejects pardon request for Alan Turing

June 23 marks the centenary of Alan Turing's birth in London

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The government has rejected calls for computer pioneer Alan Turing to be granted an official pardon for convictions for homosexuality dating back to the 1950s.

An online petition of over 23,000 signatures had requested the pardon.

Justice Minister Lord McNally dismissed the motion in the House of Lords.

"A posthumous pardon was not considered appropriate as Alan Turing was properly convicted of what at the time was a criminal offence," he said.

In 2009 former Prime Minister Gordon Brown issued an official apology to Mr Turing, labelling the treatment he had received as "utterly unfair" and "appalling".
Anniversary
Mr Turing was one of the key members of the staff at Bletchley Park that worked to crack Germany's Enigma codes, and Lord McNally acknowledged that in light of this work he had been treated harshly by the authorities.

"It is tragic that Alan Turing was convicted of an offence which now seems both cruel and absurd, particularly... given his outstanding contribution to the war effort," he said.

"However, the law at the time required a prosecution and, as such, long-standing policy has been to accept that such convictions took place and, rather than trying to alter the historical context and to put right what cannot be put right, ensure instead that we never again return to those times."

Mr Turing committed suicide in 1954, two years after his conviction.

2012 marks the centenary of his birth. The occasion is being marked by a series of events around the world including a commemorative postage stamp issued by Royal Mail.

The Psychologist at OSU EAST

He was never expecting an education?

After a day or two in the hospital I was bulking on the idea of 45 days of IV treatments and like anyone faced with that I was questioning all sides of the issue. I was seriously questioning the integrity of the science of the diagnosis and indeed I felt great so I had no physical clues of the hurt I was in. Faced with the idea of putting your life on hold and running to the pawn shop to help keep enough money flowing to keep the bills paid and being stuck in a nursing home was just 'delightful'.  In some effort to keep me from not accepting the treatment  OSU must have felt guilty or they needed a reason to declare me incompetent so they go with the treatment anyway so they sent in one of their psychologist 'for my own good'. 

This poor soul was rather shocked when got I going on my background. The autism knowledge ,experience, and real life functioning scarred the hell out of him. I knew I reached the  breaking point about two sentences in the conversation  and then I presented the ultimate weapon  I gave him a copy of this web page. He read the front header and kind of gave up.. Even my mother who was in the room was noticing he was getting a new experience.

I ended up going with their treatments and I wonder if I didn't give this psychologist to think about than he did me.  His lack of Autism  knowledge was pretty obvious ,but there again true knowlege is missing on many front when it comes to psychology and autism. Perhaps he seen the movie Rain Man  That surely qualified him as an Autism 'expert' .  

Rich Shull on the Blog Pre Rain Man Autism.  

The afterglow of sugary

The afterglow of the sugary. 
An Amish run Nursing home.
Well only in America it seems,,,,, I have ended up needing a very powerful antibiotic drug via an IV system. In order to get this I had to go on emergency Medicaid and move to a nursing home. I need 30 some treatments with this master blaster drug. If I had some form of insurance they would have sent a nurse to my home and given the treatment there saving a bundle of tax payer money. But now I have to sit here in a nursing home for the once a day treatment. 

Of Course, a nursing home is no place for a 40 something or anyone for that matter but the culture shock is very interesting just the same.  I have got so tired of religion 24-7 as people facing the end of life turn to TV preachers for their last hope. Don't even mention the Amish that work in this place all are fanatics when it comes to  Jesus. Winston Churchill once said a "fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."  While I see and appreciate  and respect the need for religion in peoples lives there has to be a little bit of give and take. 

I am one of the youngest most fit  people in this place and the Amish are very 'distant' afraid to give me a bath for fear of sex ,thoughts of sex etc. It is unbecoming of a young Amish girl or woman  to be in the presence of a naked man it seems. I ended up going back to the sponge bath to attempt to stay clean  as they refuse to deal with the "stigma" of a patient that has the potential to 'excite them' in lustful ways apparently. For god's sake I'm gay and women don't even excite me.  Of course tell the Amish your Gay and that opens up another nasty subject altogether, I can hear the prayer chain starting already!

Otherwise this nursing home is one of the best in the state and very clean . They even run a huge steam cleaner down the halls and it kills every spec of dirt and odor for sure. 

If they could equal the level of care and get over the sex thing it might be a good over all experience if your forced to have to do it. Still from what I seen of other nursing homes I guess this is still the best choice among the many bad choices. Still I am impressed at the level of caring and the heart felt concern the staff has for the patients. If a loved one were to need real end of life care I would send them here unless they were non religious and Gay or lesbian. 

Ironically the very best thing here is the Internet connection ,it is so shocking to see something so tech savvy and modern  here in the middle of the dark ages.  The connection is my only life and soul in this place .

Otherwise , once in the nursing home stage all communication with my doctors has effectively ended
the once daily blood tests are now a thing of the past and the IV drug is given weather you need it or not. In the Hospital they monitored the blood levels of the master blaster drug and if it was too high I skipped a dose. Now if the drug level is too high you just get super sick as your killed with kindness and the best of cheap Medicaid medicine.  The Iv is given once a day in the span of 1 hour and that is way too much of a dose at one time. But do they really care?  

Rich Shull on the blog Pre Rain Man Autism
 

good by Whitney Houston

The beauty of Houston's version is in her restraint. Other vocalists try to make "The Star-Spangled Banner" their own with unnecessary flourishes and self-indulgent arrangements. Whitney let the song stand on its own. She just sang the heck out of it.

Mankind lost a  great soul and indeed a diva with the passing of Whitney. She was the power and soul and the hope for many late early 90's and late 80's  gay folks on their trip out of the closet. This point in time was one of the  first moments in history when many North American Gays were coming out and we used her powerful music as our theme song and motivation to move on. There are lots of diva's and all are special to us but Whitney won more hearts than normal. 

The quote above is from Yahoo, and indeed the video that came with it showed the very best performance of National Anthem  I ever heard.  

Thanks Whitney for helping so many people in so many ways with your powerful singing and insight to your soul and our own.     

Rich Shull on the Blog Pre Rain Man Autism

Begging me to get to the Hospital

Well this was a first,

Dr Bishop and her associates started calling me at work and begging me to get to the hospital after they examined my infected shoulder. One with the  autism pain tolerance working as usual I had no idea I should have been in pain and no my shoulder never hurt. Then I  was highly suspicious ,I have never been asked ,even begged to get to the hospital before. In fact, I have been kicked out and kept from  the hospital since I am one of the billions of people with out health insurance. This was a new experience for me ,I honestly had a hard time trusting the genuine  heart felt fear she had for my health.

Well, anyway after enduring a day of phone calls from Dr Bishop's assistant that ranked right up there with some calls from bill collectors I made it to the hospital on Thursday. I was scheduled for a two hour procedure and it took four since there was so much damage.  The infection turned out to be a bug of some type that lives out side your armpit, that jumped the skin barrier ended up inside the armpit. It was eating muscle and flesh and it is called P something.

I came out of the extended operation missing a lot of flesh and muscle. I am now on a high power antibiotic given via I V and will be for about 15 more days .  I guess she was begging me to get to the hospital for a reason, Thanks again Dr Bishop for getting me in there and staying so late and saving my life.

Of course the 1st day after surgery I felt good especially when the epidural wore off my arm and I could feel my fingers again. NO NOTHING HURT not even the chopped up shoulder.  I moved it with total ease and its only limit was the missing muscle and flesh that once helped it work. The Nurses at OSU EAST hospital were so set back when I refused all my pain meds. I was offered oxy contion time and again . When  I was force fed Perk-a-set some years ago after another operation the trip was just too wild to ever take it again. I figured the oxy contion would be just a wild trip as well, one I did not want to deal with- ever. Perhaps this is a clue to our pain tolerance and our bodies are indeed different.I suspect most people never go on a trip with just one pain pill.  It is just very hard convincing anyone in the practice of medicine I didn't need a damn pain pill. The nurses felt like they were abusing me when I refused to touch them.

Over time the nurses seen I really didn't feel pain too much if at all. They even took my blood pressure right over the chopped up arm  and it didn't hurt.  While in the Hospital my ever faithful hip went out of place and I rang the nurse button and they came in to see me in agony, but no pain. One nurse said your in pain!    and just don't know it . After that I did agree to one small pain pill and it was wild to fell the  pain I never  feel go away. I simply did few a few exercise moves and put my hip back in place and an hour later I was walking down the hall to the shock of the nurses!

Well for sure this newest lack of pain experience has opened up too many eyes to the fact medical practice is just that practice. The idea of not feeling pain has lost its appeal to me as it makes you too much of a circus act. I am just glad I am not in the Lilly Drug Torture chamber. I am just as delighted   contemporary Autism forgot all about the pain tolerance or they would be first in line to exploit it. Oh forgive me  - help us.  

Rich Shull on the Blog Pre Rain Man Autism.

Thank you Dr Bishop and associates.