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Autism and the causes 

A fundamental Approach 

 

BY 

CHRISTOPHER SHAW 

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http://www.abnormalpsy.org 

 

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HONOURS BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (2007) 
WATERLOO UNIVERSITY 
TITLE: Autism and the causes – A fundamental Approach 
AUTHOR: Christopher Shaw 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Table of Contents 

 

Introduction 

 

          4 

Indicators  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oxygen 

           

Causes  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Autism rates    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Asperger’s 

syndrome 

 

         

10 

Other 

relating 

evidence 

 

        

10 

Possible solution  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11 

References  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Introduction  

 

Autism is said to be a disorder that affects the central nervous system. Today I am going 

to be touching on this idea but overall I feel it is something else that is causing this ailment. 

Autism is created by a bottleneck in the brain affecting the stimulation receptors such as 

dopamine etc that basically doesn’t allow the stimulation created by these chemicals to fuel 

further mental development. Today I will be looking at some of the reasons for this.  

 

Indicators  

 

Autism in general deals with a Childs personality, or basically the unwillingness to join 

society based on the lack of stimulus being accepted from the nervous system in the part of the 

brain where the grey matter lies. This tendency to move away from society takes many forms but 

I believe we have to focus on the big symptoms and move forward from there. The big three 

characteristics of autism are as follows: Distance between them and you in a generalized sense as 

they don’t show any interest in social interaction, avoids eye contact and they seem to ignore 

people all together in favor of the environment around them. Abnormal psychology (2005) Now 

you have to ask yourself what all three have in common. The reluctance to interact with people 

on a social level or the inclination to accept human touch. Well the next question you would have 

to ask is why? At such a young age a child has not been exposed to the intricate context of every 

day life so the answer must lie on his/her own accord, which relates back to how they feel about 

people or in the case of an autism how they don’t feel about people. It is widely known that 

autistic children start to develop tendencies just after birth. So you can only assume that what is 

taking place is completely chemical in nature, it really has to be as they don’t have the capacity 

to even have a sense of self yet. To really get to the core of the problem we really have to take a 

look at the actual interaction of the autism child and the parent. Touch for the most part draws a 

smile from a normal developing child simply because the stimulus gets registered, stimulant 

receptors in the brain respond to the stimulation as it is favorable, empathy is produced in the 

grey matter of the brain and as a result there is a chemical reaction that produces a wave of 

stimulation over the body and a smile is produced creating that mother/child relationship. The 

first bonds of cyclical action have been initiated successfully. In the case of an autistic child, 

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touch is administered in the same way, only when the signals reach the brain they try and create 

a stimulant receptor response in the grey matter area of the brain, but the receptors themselves 

falter because they are underdeveloped effectively squashing the stimulus being received and 

ultimately the bond that one forms with their child muffling the source of empathy. There is 

another process taking place within the mind as well, this process is the secretion of testosterone 

during the developing stages of the child’s life. In the very early stages of the child’s 

development testosterone plays a vital role in determining how the child ultimately ends up and 

really interacts with stimulus being received from the mother. When a child receives stimulus 

from the mother it creates empathy in the brain itself, or more so that internal stimulation needed 

for the child to grow properly, however since the child does not have the ability to properly 

process the external stimulus and distribute it to the rest of the body, the child ends up bottling 

the stimulus in the brain itself. This bottling effect interacts with the secretion of testosterone 

during the beginning stages of development creating a brain that is not only larger in overall size 

but also makes the autism worse. When the testosterone interacts with the bottled empathy it 

basically creates an imbalance within the brain itself as the growth of the brain outpaces the 

information being taken in by the external senses. This is where the nervous system 

misconception comes in as it is logical to assume autism is the result of a nullified nervous 

system, however it lies in direct contradiction to the fact that the brain does increase in size. This 

manifestation basically points to the fact that the stimulus is being received but it isn’t going 

anywhere, and much like a balloon being filled with to much air, it has to be distributed 

somewhere. During the infantile stages there is so much change taking place within the mind of 

an autistic, so it draws the question, where do the symptoms of an autistic come from? Well to 

answer that question we have to take into account what is happening in the brain itself. The 

answer lies in the fact that autistics look at the world a little bit differently then the rest of us as 

they don’t have that emotional empathetic connection that the rest of us seem to have, but it 

doesn’t go to say autistic child don’t require the same things in life because they totally do, and 

we have to look directly at the symptoms present in right angle stacking, even numbers and 

anything that has to do with the rise of autistic symptoms. I am going to use a direct comparison 

to a normal child for this reference. A normal developing child would normally experience an up 

and down rate of stimulation based on the empathy being received and transferred to the body, 

this up and down rate of experience represents somewhat of a chaotic scale as the body tries to 

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equalize its processes with the rapid expansion of growth. It seems that order and conformity is 

the least of his/her concerns as the child takes great pride in his external surroundings absorbing 

as much external stimulus as the extroverted child can, this in essence becomes the extroverted 

child’s security and manifests into his adult tendencies which interact with the world. However 

with an autistic child this isn’t so as there isn’t a roller coaster of emotion present. And therefore 

the representation of the mind appears very stable almost in a stuttering state of development. 

And therefore the child portrays what is happening within the mind onto his surroundings as a 

form of security very much in the same way that the extroverted child portrays his external 

surroundings and family. The actual development of the child seems to be in a static state after 

the brain stops its expansion. And since the mind naturally tries to maintain the current trend of 

development, the mind of an autistic lags behind in overall external stimulation development that 

would normally be absorbed from the environment around him/her. Well I have stated time and 

time again that memory for the most part is rooted in stimulation created by the spikes in 

empathy between the interactions of neurons. Well if there aren’t any mental spikes of stimulus 

taking place within the Autistic child then learning is restricted to the very basis of cyclical 

tendencies and visual learning. Now it is somewhat known that the mind goes through stages of 

frequency during development in a normal child and responds to newly present external 

stimulus, the mind then responds by adapting to the external stimulus by adapting to the new 

frequency and finding a medium between the activity in the mind and the external stimulus 

creating a new frequency all together letting the child grow. This isn’t the case with an Autistic 

child as the Autistic child is constantly trying to keep everything the same resulting in a 

stuttering non existent change in the minds frequency, and therefore no adaptation is taking place 

at all. This presents a problem for the child and brings me back to the stacking of objects at right 

angles etc. Well if the child’s mind stays stagnant at a certain frequency then we can only assume 

that the child’s mind is running at a lower frequency and is generally lower the rest of the 

population since it has not received the roller coaster of emotion that normal developing children 

would have received and adapted too. And therefore is somewhat handicapped when the child 

tries to remembering things as memory is directly tied to emotion. However the handicap only 

applies to linear type thought as the Autistic child becomes very good at visual/repetition type 

thinking which makes him very good at other things such as chess, mind games, pattern oriented 

thinking etc. This is why many autistics can be considered of above average intelligence in some 

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areas as they learn to totally master their surroundings. There is another aspect to this as well, a 

mind which stays stagnant at very low frequencies would also produce a similar logical cell 

structure within the mind itself, and if the person is stacking things at right angles then the visual 

representation of what the child is doing might very well be an extension of the logical organized 

frequency taking place within the actual cell structure inside the mind. I cant say for sure but it 

seems to fall in line with the thinking on the matter as the application of cymatics at very low 

frequency produces similar patterns in a very logical orderly fashion, exactly what the child 

seems to be creating in the external world, only after it reaches a certain point in frequency does 

the patterns become more and more complex, this too represents the natural evolution of learning 

and creativity, as the best artists in the world also produce a good amount of empathy which 

would also represent a change in stimulus from the outside world, it would also point to why 

some of the best designers and even the best artists in the world are controversially gay as they 

seem to exert the drive of a man coupled with the emotions of a women which makes for a very 

good combination of potential exploitable artistic talent. It could also very well be the fact that it 

is his security coming out in the form of activity, this also lends to the fact that as the autistic 

gets older, rules and regulations set in as an Autistic is known to go from 0 – 60 in a matter of 

seconds and this is an expression of the internal conflict that one goes through in order to coup 

with symptoms, when something changes the order of things is thrown off and throws the 

Autistic’s security for a loop, much like the situation of a man who has just been cast out to live 

on the street. You may see him rocking back and forth, well the rocking is a form of anxiety 

release and is comparable to the actions that an autistic, in which a frantic mess of emotion 

would come pouring out and would subside with time when things reverted back to normal and 

everything became orderly again. 

 

This would indicate that the autistic never really gets over the ailment but learns to cope with it. I 

have also heard that autistics use there tendencies to ward off feelings of death. Well this would 

lend to the notion that autistics might very well be depressed but yet don’t know how to express 

the depression and in its wake try and create a world so perfect that it becomes a fantasy so they 

can just coup from day to day. This also makes sense from a security stand point. 

 

 

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Oxygen 

 

I also believe oxygen might play a very vital role in the child’s overall development. For 

the most part children that are very active will draw in excess amounts of oxygen, well this for 

the most part massages the cells with stimulation developing them to adequate standards, 

stimulation which in turn promotes empathy, empathy which increases the grey matter density in 

the brain, which in turn connects the neurons and other material into a tighter knit functional 

apparatus, which in turn create better motor skills/memory. Autistic children don’t express this 

need to participate in such activity and therefore take in less oxygen furthering the autistic 

process, all in all if they did participate in more activity it would probably increase the maturity 

development factor of the cells since positive stimulation is being applied directly to the cell, this 

secretion can do nothing but good in the long run, to prove this point all you have to do is go to a 

gym and ask the people there who have been working out for a number of years, they will tell 

you directly that it goes beyond aesthetics and actually increases how extroverted you become, 

exactly what the introverted autistic child needs. In general I believe that any stimulation is good 

stimulation and should be taken upon one self to be exposed to it. 

 

 

Cause 

 

Up above I touched on the fact that the stimulus receptors were underdeveloped and 

therefore not allowing the secretion of dopamine to enhance the grey matter of the brain caused 

by touch from the mother. Well that too has an underlying cause; the cause I believe is the 

emotion factor present in the mother during the conception process while the child is in the 

womb. This emotional factor increases the natural testosterone output of the mother, this 

testosterone output stimulates the babies developing cells causing them to multiply at an 

increased rate. This increased rate creates an imbalance of nourishment and although there are 

more cells there ends up being less fully developed cells overall. Now if there are less fully 

developed cells then it would also affect the cells responsible for the babies own secretion of 

stimulant producing cells leaving the door open an autistic child after birth. There is another 

aspect to this as well as the excess testosterone isn’t the only reason for a child to develop 

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Autism. Now if stress or repression of some kind is incurred during the conception process, a 

transference of stress occurs which also affects the developing state of the child altering the 

absorption of oxygen as the cells are not regulated properly, albeit also stressed out and it is 

widely known that stress is one of the worst things you could ever put on your body. This stress 

and/or repression doesn’t allow the stimulation to flow freely to the child and cuts off the 

nourishment, and therefore the child’s stimulant receptors become even more underdeveloped 

after birth from the lack of oxygen. To give an example the stress/repression created by the 

mother during birth works very much the same way as the onset of the common cold, as the 

restricted emotional state of the mother doesn’t allow the cells to regulate properly at the crucial 

developmental stages and thus the person in question would be more susceptible to sickness, 

cancer and other ailments that may arise from the body not working at its full potential, this is 

exactly what is happening to the child in the womb and anything that is negative in nature 

applied from within or from external measures creates a negative tension on the child’s 

developing mind and therefore hinders the overall ability to use the oxygen present and receive 

the stimulation being past on to the child, the opposite is also true, when somebody laughs it 

creates that emotional spark of empathy sending a shiver of sensation through the body that 

massages the babies developing cells and thus promotes the well being of the child and hence a 

healthy extroverted baby is born. There are other factors that increase the negative emotion that 

can be past on to the child, such as smoking as it cuts down the oxygen intake by the mother, if 

the mother is going to have a child for the first time and anything else that may weight on the 

mother mind during conception. 

 

 

Autism rates 

 

Autism rates are also statistically going up all over the United States and other parts of 

the world. This is mainly because our society is becoming increasingly constrained with time and 

that turmoil that we experience in our everyday lives is being past on to our children, the trouble 

up till this point is really fitting all the pieces of the puzzle together which I have attempted in 

this writing. It is also known that black children receive a slightly higher rate of autism then 

others, and Asians being the lowest. Well black males/females for the most part produce a higher 

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rate of testosterone and exasperate the autistic process accounting for the increase in cases 

making it harder for the brain to find that equilibrium between development and expansion. Now 

within the Asian culture the opposite also holds true as they produce an increased overall amount 

of estrogen bringing the overall stats down allowing the brain to increase in grey matter during 

the fundamental stages of development allowing the neurons to connect and distribute the 

empathy created on a greater equilateral scale.  

 

Asperger’s syndrome  

 

This for the most part follows the exact same pattern as an autistic however the cells in 

the brain were nourished with adequate oxygen, this leads to some regulation of the cells 

themselves and removes some of the testosterone allowing the stimulant receptor cells to receive 

some stimulation in a healthy fashion, however the larger then average brain is still present and 

still leads to some AS symptoms. This allows the child to take in more information and 

ultimately leads to a higher intelligence ratio. The symptoms are reduced and can even be 

reversed if enough confidence was gained throughout their life and especially from there family 

to reverse the affects of the hindered early childhood, but the amount of stimulation required 

would probably the equivalent to 1.5 times the normal development needed simply because you 

are working against the cells tendency to reject emotional stimulation in favor of making the 

neural connections to function properly and would really need to be forced into accepting at least 

some form of the stimulation to allow things to progress normally, I do think overall once that 

natural development threshold is obtained then development should go great from that point on. 

Asparagus syndrome on the whole offers the introverted qualities of a very intelligent person and 

some of the qualities associated with an extrovert. However these qualities may not be realized 

until later on in life as the recovery of the cells themselves requires stimulation from an 

emotional standpoint and perhaps an external standpoint such as working out at a gym, cuddles 

from a girlfriend etc. Only then will a person who has Asparagus Syndrome realize his full 

potential. Otherwise he could very much end up like an autistic if he does not receive the 

emotional/external confidence that he so desperately needs to succeed in this world. 

 

 

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Other relating evidence  

 

There is also the fact that there are more autistic boys then there are girls. Abnormal 

psychology (2005) well we have to ask why that is? Well I believe the answer relies in physical 

situation of the mother during birth. If she is under stress from work, how emotional she is 

overall, if she smokes, basically anything that sharpens the senses. Well these factors act as a 

stimulant to testosterone being produced in the mother which in fact are past on to the boy in the 

belly of the mother. This also would stimulate the natural testosterone that the boy would 

produce and accumulate at a greater rate during development. This factor is the only reason why 

we are seeing more autistic boys then girls because the testosterone present in the girl would 

likely produce a tom boy as there would be more natural estrogen production to counter the 

testosterone. 

 

 

Possible Solution  

 

A way to counter the affects of the early signs of autism would most definitely be love 

and keep you stress levels down during the conception process, try to encourage activity to 

introduce oxygen while doing some yourself, and try and relate to him after he is born on what 

he finds interesting. Help him stack his blocks in a logical fashion and build a connection 

through the world that he/she sees to try and jumpstart his emotional potential. Otherwise if you 

don’t he will continue to block you out the world and not develop properly, I believe it is 

absolutely critical to get this right in very early stages because if you don’t there is no way to 

change the wiring of the mind once the damage is done. It really is the only way, apply that 

stimulation any way you can while you can in the very early stages of the childhood. 

 

 

References  

 

Gerald C. Davison, John M, Neale, Kirk R. Blankstein, Gordon L. Flett Abnormal Psychology C 

(15) 504-512 

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