One of the reason that different autistic people can have strikingly different support needs is that autism very often co-occurs with other physical and mental health issues. This constellation of...

When my grandad died, I didn’t know how to process it. Then I met others who felt the same.

In contrast to the widespread myth that autistic people lack emotions, many people on the autism spectrum experience emotions very deeply. This is particularly evident when an autistic person is...

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The systems set up for disabled people are not disability friendly. Accessibility is more than just wheelchair ramps, folks. It's plain language on required forms. It's reminders of important...

neurodivergent community Who recognizes this? I’m Late Diagnosed ADHD, after using Vyanse / Elvanse I found out I also was autistic. Very curious to hear who recognizes this.

I don't know who needs to see this, but stomach issues are EXTREMELY common in autistic people. Some studies have found that up to 91% of autistic people have stomach issues (like constipation,...

🌙💤 Eine Einschlaflatenz von über 30 Minuten kann ein Warnsignal sein! Studien zeigen, dass Kinder, die lange zum Einschlafen brauchen, später häufiger psychische Probleme entwickeln bzw. es mit ADHS...

Schon gewusst? Hot und cold EF : Kalte Exekutivfunktionen 🧠 konzentrieren sich auf Logik, wie Planung, und sind mit dem dorsolateralen präfrontalen Cortex verbunden. Heiße Exekutivfunktionen ❤️...

adhd is more than an attention deficit. While hyperactivity is not always present, the diagnostic criteria for ADHD often ignore emotional dysregulation. In this lecture, Dr. Dodson discusses the...

I am more spatially invested. We had encyclopedias when I was growing up, and if I couldn't remember something, or even if I could, I could tell you or show you exactly where I read it: which book,...

An integral part of human language is the capacity to extract meaning from spoken and written words, but the precise relationship between brain representations of information perceived by listening versus reading is unclear. Prior neuroimaging studies have shown that semantic information in spoken language is represented in multiple regions in the human cerebral cortex, while amodal semantic information appears to be represented in a few broad brain regions. However, previous studies were too insensitive to determine whether semantic representations were shared at a fine level of detail rather than merely at a coarse scale. We used fMRI to record brain activity in two separate experiments while participants listened to or read several hours of the same narrative stories, and then created voxelwise encoding models to characterize semantic selectivity in each voxel and in each individual participant. We find that semantic tuning during listening and reading are highly correlated in most semantically selective regions of cortex, and models estimated using one modality accurately predict voxel responses in the other modality. These results suggest that the representation of language semantics is independent of the sensory modality through which the semantic information is received. SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Humans can comprehend the meaning of words from both spoken and written language. It is therefore important to understand the relationship between the brain representations of spoken or written text. Here, we show that although the representation of semantic information in the human brain is quite complex, the semantic representations evoked by listening versus reading are almost identical. These results suggest that the representation of language semantics is independent of the sensory modality through which the semantic information is received.

4,538 likes, 83 comments - hat.talks.uk on April 8, 2024: "As an AuDHDer I’m a walking, talking contradiction 🫠 Here’s some examples of the tug of war I experience within the two neurotype...".

The psychiatry and psychology fields, including medicalization of disability, are rooted in colonialism. They originated as tools to detect “symptoms” that were used to Other and institutionalize as...

ADHS wird häufig von psychischen Krankheiten begleitet, die die Neurodiversität verhüllen. Welche Begleiterkrankungen am häufigsten sind, erfahren Sie hier.

Hier eine Sammlung zu Fakten inklusive Quellen zum Thema ADHS, die ich in Podcasts, auf Facebook oder Instagram verwende. Verschiedene Studien kommen manchmal zu verschiedenen Ergebnissen, daher ist es möglich, dass sich die Angaben widersprechen. Diagnose 90% der betroffenen Erwachsenen und 40% der Kinder bleiben undiagnostiziert (Dr Russell Barkley Burnett Lecture 2012, YouTube, eingesehen 2024-03-16) Die Wahrscheinlichkeit auch von ADHS betroffen zu sein liegt bei bis zu 90% wenn beide Elt...

Nachdem ich hier die anderen Antworten gelesen habe, spreche ich meinen Hausarzt direkt auf POTS an am Freitag. Das wird mir jetzt zu blöd, hab nämlich auch schon wieder Betablocker bekommen beim...

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By Emma Hinze , Michelle Garnett and Tony Attwood AuDHD, a term describing the co-occurrence of Autism and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), has gained more attention in recent years. This article aims to provide a clear overview of AuDHD, describing both defining features and the evo

The pathophysiology of autism is the study of the physiological processes that cause or are otherwise associated with autism spectrum disorders.

In psychology, trait theory (also called dispositional theory) is an approach to the study of human personality. Trait theorists are primarily interested in the measurement of traits, which can be defined as habitual patterns of behavior, thought, and emotion.[1] According to this perspective, traits are aspects of personality that are relatively stable over time, differ across individuals (e.g. some people are outgoing whereas others are not), are relatively consistent over situations, and influence behaviour. Traits are in contrast to states, which are more transitory dispositions.

Autistic masking, also referred to as camouflaging or neurodivergent masking, is the conscious or subconscious suppression of autistic behaviors and compensation of difficulties in social interaction by autistic people with the goal of being perceived as neurotypical.[1][2] Masking is a learned coping strategy[3][4] that can be successful from the perspective of autistic people, but can also lead to adverse mental health outcomes.[1][5]

Self-stimulatory behavior, also known as "stimming" and self-stimulation, is the repetition of physical movements, sounds, words, moving objects, or other behaviors. Such behaviors are found to some degree in all people, especially those with developmental disabilities such as ADHD, as well as autistic people. People diagnosed with sensory processing disorder are also known to potentially exhibit stimming behaviors.

Snoezelen or controlled multisensory environment (MSE) is a therapy for people with autism and other developmental disabilities, dementia or brain injury. It consists of placing the person in a soothing and stimulating environment, called the "Snoezelen room", a form of sensory room. These rooms are specially designed to deliver stimuli to various senses, using lighting effects, color, sounds, music, scents, etc. The combination of different materials on a wall may be explored using tactile senses, and the floor may be adjusted to stimulate the sense of balance. The person is usually accompanied by an aide or therapist.

Frisson, also known as aesthetic chills or psychogenic shivers, is a psychophysiological response to rewarding stimuli that often induces a pleasurable or otherwise positively-valenced affective state and transient paresthesia, sometimes along with piloerection and mydriasis .The sensation commonly occurs as a mildly to moderately pleasurable emotional response to music with skin tingling; piloerection and pupil dilation not necessarily occurring in all cases.

An autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) is a tingling sensation that usually begins on the scalp and moves down the back of the neck and upper spine. A pleasant form of paresthesia, it has been compared with auditory-tactile synesthesia and may overlap with frisson. ASMR is a subjective experience of "low-grade euphoria" characterized by "a combination of positive feelings and a distinct static-like tingling sensation on the skin". It is most commonly triggered by specific auditory or visual stimuli, and less commonly by intentional attention control.

Autism covers a wide spectrum of disorders for which there are many views, hypotheses and theories. Here we propose a unifying theory of autism, the Intense World Theory. The proposed neuropathology is hyper-functioning of local neural microcircuits, ...

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to autism:

Autism, formally called autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or autism spectrum condition (ASC), is a neurodevelopmental disorder marked by deficits in reciprocal social communication and the presence of restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior. Other common signs include difficulties with social interaction, verbal and nonverbal communication, along with perseverative interests, stereotypic body movements, rigid routines, and hyper- or hyporeactivity to sensory input. Autism is clinically regarded as a spectrum disorder, meaning that it can manifest very differently in each person. For example, some are nonspeaking, while others have proficient spoken language. Because of this, there is wide variation in the support needs of people across the autism spectrum.

Excoriation disorder, more commonly known as dermatillomania, is a mental disorder on the obsessive–compulsive spectrum that is characterized by the repeated urge or impulse to pick at one's own skin, to the extent that either psychological or physical damage is caused.