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A new BBC podcast, 1800 Seconds on Autism, aims to dispel that no-humour myth, among other assumptions, with razor-sharp wit.
Sometimes I feel bad when neurotypicals say that I don’t seem autistic, and then I remember that the BBC had an article on front page of their website for three days asking whether autistic people could understand jokes or not.
Breaking news: Can autistic people LOL?
Neurotypicals: Omg fascinating research who knew?
Understanding compensation and its consequences may help autistic people manage their mental health more effectively. By Alex Fradera
Excerpt:
A process involved in neurodevelopmental disorders that we are only just beginning to understand is “compensation” – the way that a deficit can be partially or wholly masked by automatic mental processes and/or deliberate behavioural strategies. For instance, a person with dyslexia may achieve typical levels of reading ability after an earlier diagnosis, not because the disorder has gone away (subtle tests might show continuing problems in phonological processing, for example) but through the use of behavioural strategies, such as reverse-engineering a tricky word from the meaning of words around it. In a new review in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews Lucy Anne Livingston and Francesca Happé, at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, take us through what compensation might mean for autism.
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For autistic people and those around them, understanding the nature of their compensation may be very useful. Compensation may be deep or shallow: Livingston and Happé refer to the development of echolocation by blind people, which genuinely restores some of the functionality of sight (i.e. deep compensation), versus the use of a cane, which serves a much more circumscribed role (shallow compensation). In autism, two individuals might present as equally adjusted to social situations, such as responding to jokes, but the one relying on a shallow strategy (for example, join in whenever other people laugh) is vulnerable to making errors and may struggle in novel situations (e.g. a one-on-one date).
Today on women who don’t “look autistic”...
Video description:
Talking about the importance of recognising Aspergers/Autism early on and getting a diagnosis, and the pros to getting a diagnosis that make life a lot less difficult for Aspies.
Length: 21 minutes
The diversity of autistic people was also evident in the range of traits that autistic participants reported having, or more specifically that autistic people can have traits that are both stereotypic and counter-stereotypic. This demonstrates that some autistic people feel they fit the stereotypes, or that certain autistic stereotypes may be accurate, and that some autistic people don’t fit the stereotypes, or they have counterstereotypic or atypical traits. The idea that autistic people can have traits that may be considered counter-stereotypic or atypical has also been found in previous research (Macintosh and Dissanayake, 2006). In addition, the heterogeneous nature of autism, has been highlighted by other authors, including clinicians who are involved in diagnosing autism (Georgiades, Szatmari and Boyle, 2013; Hassall, 2016; Lord, 2011; Verhoeff, 2012). This finding is important because whilst autistic people share the same condition, there are profound differences in the traits they have and the extent to which these traits affect their behaviour.
http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/130341/3/Treweek%252C%20Wood%252C%20Martin%252C%20Freeth%20Autism%202018.pdf
“But you don’t look autistic—”
Actually I do look autistic, specifically, my ears. More so my right ear than my left, but still
how can someone look autistic? just wondering
Not everyone who is autistic is obviously autistic. But some people are. And there are a variety of ways that autistic people look, move, and react to the world, that other people can recognize as autistic, or as at least developmentally disabled. Of course how recognizably autistic a person is depends on two main things: The autistic person themselves, and how familiar the observer is with autism.
