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Autism and the causes

A fundamental Approach

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TITLE: Autism and the causes – A fundamental Approach
AUTHOR: Christopher Shaw

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Table of Contents

Introduction

4

Indicators

4

Oxygen

8

Causes

8

Autism rates

9

Asperger’s

syndrome

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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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