Playing the Autism Card May Be Harmful to Humanity

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One of my children just now emailed me this link, which pertains to my special subject of interest.

http://explore.noodle.org/post/70314346 ... ign=Buffer

If you really are autistic, it doesn't work. You aren't manipulative enough to make it work.

To the participants of this thread--and active reading and thinking is participation--is Sana Claus coming to your house tonight? if your heart is pure, he will come, but if you are filled with hate, grudge holding, resentment and rancor, that is naughty. All you will get in your stocking (interesting word:-) is a lump of coal (another interesting word)..

So what is the inner meaning of Saint Nick--Saint Nicholas and his reindeer. That is very interesting allegory. First, it is the darkest part of the year and for many, especially in ancient times, but even today, a very cold and, difficult, both psychologically and physically..,,,people can start to lose hope.....

To the readers, anyone new please start at the very beginning of this thread and take a few days to read through or you will miss a lot of nuances related to some key material that is upcoming. No time to write for today but soon more about brain function and encapsulation and autistic encapsulation and also some comments on group organization, how it might mirror human brain function and how this may effect broader society. In the meantime here is a link to a message on the the subject of a group called Autism Speaks: Please look at it not from the perspective of approving or disapproving of that group, but more from the perspective of human brain function and how the mind can focus on one aspect while ignoring other sometimes important contextual information. Try to think about what could be the functional values, negative or positive of doing this.

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postp5825444.html#5825444

Also, for anyone interested in the parenting of autistic children, I will be talking about this subject on my documentary, using and we will be looking at a kind of interesting lifetime film called Speak as a learning tool.

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postp5823874.html#5823874

To start off the new year: it appears very clear to me that people do not really understand much of anything about what is autism, yet they are acting as if they do, kind of bluffing it (and some are even making a profession of it), which is a big big bad. The tendency should be more in the line of enquiry, of questioning.

Secondly I see a big tendency toward approaching from a behavioral angle, and to me this does make a lot of sense, but a big and even tragic mistake is that psychological factors are being taken out completely so as to try to make it all cut off and detached behaviorism rather than a more sensitive humanistic behavioral approach. I will go into this in detail in the coming year, though I am not sure on which thread.

Thirdly, and this is understandable, I suppose, but kind of sad---there is this tendency for many (but not all) autistic people to group together and form a community around fighting windmills rather than enquiring into the dynamics of their own behavior. By doing this they are in my opinion playing the autism card, and this is in no way helpful to autistic people or humanity in general. but even harmful. Again, this is not to suggest that here or anywherepeople should not fight injustice or should not use WP as a possible platform from which to do that.

I think the most important thing to understand is that encapsulation is a basic principle of brain function, whether a person is autistic or not. Once this basic principle is understood, it opens a window to solving the conundrum of what is.autism. But please do not just assume you understand encapsulation, You need to actually observe how it works in yourself..

Let's stop for a minute and look at intelligence. I have read from some people on wp that the intelligence of aspies is on a spectrum equal to that of the general population. I do not know what standard this was measured, but I have been to quite a few aspie functions in a major urban area and almost all of the people I met seemed to me to be noticeably smarter than people in the general population. Maybe I just felt this because I was with what I perceived to be my own kind, but this is unlikely. .And here I see so many people who are so much smarter and more articulate than me, which is a thrill.

One of the reasons I have chosen to write on this particular thread and delve deeply into some kind of esoteric intellectual material is that I think I am speaking to people who may understand what I am saying. How smart am I? Not very, at this point int itme, anyway, though maybe kind of, but I think that smart people might be able to understand me better, as they are more likely to understand anything and anyone better: What I am going to be presenting is some perhaps extraordinary concepts about the way material mechanically organizes and a way to potentially organize it that is not mechanical but conscious. We know that when we pay attention to whatever we are doing, then we see new ways to organize material. A potential exists that can only be actualized when we see new ways to put things together and/or take them apart. If a really smart teenager gets a radio or a computer or a car and takes it apart, then it is possible for him to discover how that device works. With ourselves as living functional creatures we cannot take everything completely apart and still be functioning at the same time, but there are ways to work with the discrepancy factor, such as to insert an anomaly into ones own functioning--for example, to do something a little differently and then observe the results, or even to observe ones own functioning at a time when one is lost in and identified with it, so kind of drugged or submerged. That in itself would be an anomaly.

I have some kind of brain damage from a lot of concussion and am in many ways just out and out stupid. I used to carry this very heavy laundry bag down the stairs when going to the laundromat. Now why would anyone do that unless they were missing seeing a connection? Anyway, one day I just saw it--that was lucky--and now I throw it down the stairs:-) .But after seeing this I started to wonder--what else am I doing? Except no cigar. How to see what you are doing when what you are doing is not seeing what you are doing? So not becomes a knot, but without knots we cannot make things, and interestingly, the consonant base n__t played backwards,. t__n, gives us ton, tone and tune as 'opposed' to note, net, nut and nit (the egg of a louse or other parasitic insect) and nat (natal and national). Point made.

For anyone who is a new reader here, you need to go back to the very beginning and slowly go through this material, even though you may think/feel you are getting the gist of it, or you will surely miss some of the most significant nuance that is being implied but not directly stated. Plus all of this material is intended to be interconnected and built upon, so what comes previously is part of the foundation for understanding material that will be given in the future..

This message is about payment and also about the functional value of understanding the inner language of word roots. In the next message will begin to get down to brass tacks about autism. It really bothers me that people do not know much of anything about it and are basically just pretending they do. I do not think that is very helpful. Much more questioning and enquiry should be encouraged.

I wrote this today on another thread, "About this autism card." started by someone else, presumably in response to some comments I made.

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postp5855317.html#5855317.

New readers, please go back to the beginning of this thread and go through the whole thing, or at least starting with the Rapunzel material, or you will not understand what I am going to talk about next regarding encapsulation, which is, today, Rapunzel's hair: http://www.wrongplanet.net/postp5746746.html#5746746 (page 15), or, better yet, start on page 11 as that contains the ant material, which is when this thread began to pick up readership, but it is necessary to read all the messages on each page to get the gist. (Ant is commonly used in classic allegorical material to represent sensation/details, so left brain function. http://www.wrongplanet.net/postxf240900-0-150.html (page 11)

Now, back to Rapunzel's hair: In order to understand the basic principle of encapsulation it is necessary to observe it happening in ones own brain function, which is very difficult but not impossible to see, and once we catch a glimpse of it functioning in ourselves, a door opens into a different world entirely, because now we begin to understand the basic principle of how the brain works--that there is always this interplay between fine tuning and general processing (as represented by the pun. Pun is an interesting word --P (as in push, put, pit, pill, pull, pat, pack combined with, or actually projecting into UN:-), which means not or can even refer to K(not) and can also represent the perceptual field sans named objects, so, since once named, always named, the juncture that occurs between the named and unnamed at the integration (assimilation into understanding) of new data., and this is a constant process in the waking state.

We also have come to see how the basic structure of language is related to simple shapes (ships:-), encapsulations, and that the fine tuning of incoming sensory impressions moves by the excretion (elimination of perceived to be extraneous data toward a right brain generalization that is ultimately expressed in action, be it an overt movement and/or an inner mental shift leading to present contextual understanding/incorporation, and we will eventually be able to work all of this back to much greater self understanding and freedom and also be able to apply it as educators and parents to relating to an autistic child so as to help such a child much more easily overcome great obstacles.

It should also be noted that language formation, ie meaning of words, can easily be connected with certain movements of the entire mouth armature, face, head and breath and this affects many areas of the brain...and it can easily be extrapolated that the people who designed sophisticated language, Sanskrit were consciously aware of this.. More on this later, as I just now see a new way to work with autistic children which is very simple and makes so much sense.

Oh, never did get to Rapunzel's hair...next message, maybe later today.

Now re hair, and then maybe go back and complete the Rapunzul story, and whoever has faithfully followed the material on this thread will now have some kind of understanding of not different parts of the brain and what functions they regulate, but how the brain actually works in regard to the assimilation of material moving toward integration that results in a moement, either subtle (such as understanding something) or gross, and understanding how this works will change your own brain and unlock a secret door in the world of understanding yourself and other people. eventually,

Hair is a symbol for left brain function---her, heir, here and hero. (Interesting if we reverse the consonant base, we get re (ray:-) Now if we look at "him" which represents in some way right brain function assuming "her" represents left brain function,it becomes quite interesting---we get home, hum, ham and here. Try to think about this and you will understand, even if it takes a few days. You can see how "home" easily represents encapsulation. The word "ham" I will just tell you relates back to the word "peg." If you really want to have a productive think, there is this saying, "you cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear." So:-) And interestingly, if we turn "him" backwards we get mi (me).....Finally look at the word hero----this is very interesting as it suggests left brain moving toward right brain integration in the psychological quest of a human human being to become a whole person. here--O.

Too bad I don't have a pay pal account as about ten thousand dollars should be being deposited into it right now. Just pay me back by trying to understand not just for yourself, but with the ultimate aim of helping your brother..

Eventually we'll relate all of this back to the topic of this thread. I will use some of the ideas of one imo kind of brilliant but somewhat self-centered and entitled psychoanalyst, Bion, whose book I found in a free box many years ago but only recently read, to do this, and we will begin to discover if and how playing the autism card may be harmful to society. And of course if we turn this 'consonant base' of this premise backwards, we have the alternative to also discover how approaching from a different angle may ultimately be beneficial to society.

Please read the previous message, as it is integral to understanding what is to come. Anyway, we can go on with this word root thing for a very long time. It is kind of like 1001 Nights--a lot of hidden rooms keep opening up inside of rooms. We are finding doors into a different dimension, seeing that thought can take shape--every time we think it can't get any more interesting, it gets more interesting, at least to me:-) Repeating ideas will not take us to someplace new. It is necessary to think .Language is integral to understanding, and for those reading here whose first language is not English, the same principles of word construction we are discovering will apply to your own language, too---if you know the subtle nuances of a particular tongue, then you can see how sound correlates with meaning, and it is possible to cross reference between languages, but lets keep it simple here.

SO, I am thinking of location. Thought can create another dimension, and this can affect people. Ideas take shape. How this is done on the internet can affect the organization of greater society. This is for later, but is it possible to create dimensional parameters that allow for epiphany by making a new topography with ideas? How would this work, and could an understanding of the principle of encapsulation be applied here?..sO, if we look carefully we can see that to plant a seed relates to the consonant base p--g:-)

Now, everything relates to everything else. The object of knowledge, whatever we are looking at,.is the pivot between self and other, according to perceived function, so if a person has not completed a process, perhaps a developmental process, the object is going to be related by attributed meaning according to function to the project one is trying to complete. This takes us back to the relationship between mother and child. The child represent something to the mother, especially if there is some kind of developmental process the mother has not completed, as expressed by whatever she is trying to do at any given moment and also over the long term, but the child has his own agenda..Often he is trying to do one thing and the mother is trying to do something else. There are these different dimensions of relationship, entirely subjective, and no way to sort it out. If you pay someone to help you sort it out, that may seem hopeful, and it could be, but how do you choose the right person if you yourself do not know how to sort things out? There is always going to be the discrepancy factor, So where does help come from?

I think we can go back to the fairy tales and other organic literature of humanity to begin to understand the journey of the hero. (her-O)..

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It becomes much more difficult to understand something if it is not linked in ones mind to perceived functional value, because then there is no reason to. It is not functional, so it is not interesting. We know that when a child escapes into reading it is very interesting because the story coupled with his own imagination gives him an opportunity to sort things out, and I think gives him an opportunity to connect with a certain substance within himself. So the material is of substance.

If I am reading, watching a show on t.v and/or thinking about something and it is holding my interest, there is some kind of functional value. I think there is much more interest when material is helping me to figure something out---but there is also some kind of value when doing an activity reinforces a pattern to not figure something out. For instance, if a person is going to make a protective psychological fortress, the function of which is never to face certain facts, it needs to be reinforced with thought bricks. To make these thought bricks, it is necessary to omit certain material, so as to make other material more compacted, but when actually figuring something out, when learning, it is also important to omit certain material, as extraneous and non relevant data will deflect a person from coming to a conclusion. If you have made a psychological fortress, again, the aim presumably to not (k)not figure something out. And this is an interesting term, to figure something out. We do not hear people talking about figuring something in, though we do have the word, configure. Remember, this is about brain function. Con is from the Latin, meaning "with," so how do we get the English words, pro and con? Because of co --(see and O:-). such as in correlate.And a correlation can serve as a stopper or buffer, so when someone gives you a set of false correlations this is how he sets you up, and when you go with it, you are conned..And people can do this to themselves. When we put two ideas together, we make a new 'location' in the brain. In short, everything is already interconnected, which, in a sense is bland, but by making various mental, physical and emotional connections we chart a new land, and this is a land made out of thought, but it is also real in the sense that it connects with the physical world, as the brain is physical and the world is physical, so in this sense, thought is material in that it is establishing and reinforcing certain areas in the brain. I forget the name of this one fairy tale, but the protagonist, the here-O who is probably the youngest of three brothers and considered a simpleton but has a pure heart is given an impossible task to complete in a certain limited time frame in order to win the princess. Here are two examples from Grimms Fairy Tales: The passages below are selected from The Queen Bee:

By now I have presented enough material for any serious reader to have a general understanding of how his own brain works by encapsulation. New readers please go back to the beginning or at least start at page 11.

This week let's take a careful look at the brief quote below which I posted previously), but this time in conjunction with some comments from an interesting blog I found yesterday about one scientist. Rupert Sheldrake.