A different BOOK
Observations of the heart and the Spirit through the Quantum Spectre
hypersensitivity, autism, dyslexia, dyspraxia, Tourette syndrome, bipolarity, ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder).
List of autism spectrum disorders A
tribute to AS autonomy
‘You must become the person you are.’ Do what only you can do. ‘Keep becoming who you are; be your own master and sculptor.’ Friedrich Nietzsche, also AS.
‘Forget what you already know, look at things from your unique perspective, stop learning within the system, follow your passions, create something (become independent).’ What Jacob Barnett, American mathematician and astrophysicist, said at the age of 11 (TED Talks), also AS.
‘No more becoming; you have already been for a long time.’ Elisa Mijn, on our wedding announcement, for our AS family, a long time ago already.
The most important part of your being has been waiting for you since eternity. To meet it, you need only take that step.’ Julespeter
Some positive indications about AS/ASD
1. Hyperfocus
2. Exceptional analytical abilities
3. Understands society as a whole.
4. Hyperintelligence
5. Tunnel focusing (concentrating while excluding the superfluous)
6. Often endowed with musicality
7. Very gifted with numbers and mathematics.
8. Polyglot, an ability to learn several languages.
9. Linguistic ability
10. Excellent manager and logistician,
11. Very gifted in computing.
12. Exceptional cook (AS people have the taste buds + the desire to invent)
13. Excellent at presenting (public speaking).
14. Good actors/actresses
15. Musicians, composers
16. Choreographers
17. Exceptional ergonomic vision
18. Excellent troubleshooter (knowing how to solve problems).
19. Masters multiple techniques with finesse.
20. Outstanding cooks and pastry chefs
21. Outstanding in science
22. Management
Disorders of the spectrum
1. Depression
2. Cycles of insomnia
3. Hypersensitivity
4. Lack of concentration
5. Exhaustion
6. Isolation
7. Stress
8. Tachycardia, cardiac arrhythmia
9. Bowel syndrome
10. Hyperintelligence / impatience / boredom
11. Mental dysfunction
12. Nervous-system problems
13. Neurotransmitter imbalance…
14. Atypical problems of people with high potential
15. Psychopathic behaviour (or even asocial, egocentric behaviour)
16. Energy vampirism
17. Disorders of volition (applying the will to actions)
18. Apragmatism in certain situations
19. Obsessive compulsions
20. Thought disorders
21. Obsessive and intrusive ideas
22. Obsessive cycles
23. Distrust, positive schizophrenia
24. Perceptual disorders
25. Perception different from the norm
26. Derealisation
27. Misophonia
28. Communication disorders
29. Disorders of the form and content of language
30. Logorrhoea
31. Affected speech
32. Functional disorders
33. Mutism
34. Autistic withdrawal
35. Behavioural disorders
36. Agitation
37. Phobic behaviours
38. Mood disorders
39. A state of recurrent depression
40. Euphoria
41. Mood disorders, states of disturbance, excitement, depression.
42. Disorders of alertness
43. A slight, permanent reduction in alertness
44. Emotional and affective disorders
45. Anxiety, anguish
46. Doubt
47. Affective indifference
48. Affective discordance
49. Moderate disorders
50. Anxiety or anxiety attacks that are controlled but detrimental to concentration
51. Irritability
52. Agoraphobia
53. Information-management disorders
54. Disorders in managing information about other people
55. Disorders in managing information about oneself
56. Disorders in managing non-social information
57. Deficits in social skills
58. Deficits in activities of daily living
59. Alexithymia
60. Identity disorders
61. Personality disorders
62. Obsessive disorders
63. Hyperfocus disorders
64. Disorders of bodily perception
65. Eating disorders
66. Effects of products containing gluten
67. Effects of sugar
68. Effects of dairy products
69. Rejection of certain textures
70. Rejection of bitterness and foods rich in sulphur and minerals
Temporospatial processing disorders: 27 specific disorders
DTTS are considered early and central neuropsychological disorders, from which numerous developmental difficulties cascade: namely the behavioural, motor and cognitive manifestations of autistic people. Source: Bruno Gepner
1. Disorders of visual motion processing
2. Disorders of lip-movement perception (movements of the lips)
3. Perceptual disorders of facial/bodily emotions
4. Empathising deficit
5. Impaired vision of E-motion
6. Mind-blindness (areas of mental blindness)
7. Executive dysfunction and motor disorders (volition)
8. Disorders of visuomotor integration
9. Visual proprioceptive disorders (perception of one's body and objects in space)
10. Cognitive disorders (failure to register perception, memorisation, reasoning, emotions: physiological/neurological origin)
11. Imitation deficits
12. Slowing of sensorimotor and cognitive processing
13. Language disorders
14. Motor anticipation deficit (volition)
15. Deficits in representing an internal model
16. Deficit in processing proprioceptive flow (not registering information about one's body and movements in space)
17. Joint-attention deficit (observing situations without synthesising them)
18. Eye-contact disorders
19. Deficit in detecting gaze direction
20. Deficit in perceiving eye movements
21. Overfocused static attention (ocular disconnection)
22. Heightened local perception
23. Weak central coherence
24. Enhanced graphic abilities and spatial memory
25. Phoneme categorisation disorders
Supplementary entry: Deficit in verbal flow processing
26. Hallucinations
27. Disorganised speech
Brief psychotic disorders, lasting 1 to 3 days, observed in AS people:
1. Schizophrenia
2. Bipolarity
3. Neuroses
4. Psychosis
5. Psychotic depression
6. Delusions
7. Personality disorders