Criteria B is Autism. Hans Aspergers called the children with the syndrome "little professors." This is Autism. Our routines and fixated interests. Autism gives us the ability to be comfortable within ourselves and this accelerates our abilities, our Superpowers. How will society handle these so-called "differences" and the conflict within the so-called "normal" people?

In this episode, we expand to real-life examples of Criteria B components and review some personal experiences.

A Must Read: Dopamine Nation (Pleasure and Pain SeeSaw and why we are who we are) https://www.annalembke.com

https://www.templegrandin.com/templegrandinbooks.html

(0:00) Intro; Autism is Criteria B, how will society handle "differences," those differences create conflict in others, stimulus-response, conflict, and comfort

(4:44) Routines (B2) and Plans, Exact Planning, Plan versus Actual Time and Execution, Reality meets our Visualized Thinking; Pleasure and Pain SeeSaw; More Relationship Struggles Implicated by Criteria B,

(9:01) Punctual- for others and ourselves; Bias yourself into Action; Understanding the need for Breaks; Others take the easy way out; get Sunlight for our Biology

(12:34) Personal Experience and a Glimpse into an Autistic Thought; Traffic Spacing

(16:33) Researching Items and Fixated Interests (B3); personal experience; Hans Aspergers and his Little Professors- This is Autism!

(20:40) Other examples- Pant Sizes and Alpha instead of Numerical, Restaurant Rant, Never Underestimate a Human's Capacity to Think; Don't try to change Autism because it is offends you- offends your expectations and beliefs

(23:12) Reviews and Ratings and Contact Information

Don't try to change an Autistic Person because they are "different" than you.

In this episode, we explore more examples of Criteria A- Deficits in Social Communication and Interaction. Yay, more DSM-5-TR. Can you fit in, or not? Are you like the so-called "normal" people, or not? This episode is highlighted by personal experiences and examples. Plus, I have three jokes. The examples and episode is not exhaustive, however, I try to capture some of the conditions on the spectrum. There are lots of examples in our social world that just does not make sense, and we like to say, "that does not make sense."

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(0:00) Introduction; Crude Symptoms intend to capture the Spectrum; Can you fit in, or not? Are you like the so-called normal people, or not?

(2:08) Facts and Reality over Make-Believe; Methodical and Seeing Bottlenecks in Society- I hate "that's just the way it is"; Traffic; Names- Landon?, Associations; Repeating things- I hate, "like I said."

(7:09) "This does not make Sense"; Romantic Interests and Joke 1; Verbal Responses; Task-Switching from Fixated Interests; Sound Blends

(11:44) Social Media Use- Strange; Eye-Contact- Humans say we need to do it, and We are not Birds; Leaving Social Gatherings and Joke 2, the gathering will gather without me

(15:32) High-Fives = Stereotypy?; I hate Favors- favors create conflict; Henry David Thoreau; Self-Checkout Lanes and Autism, Neuroplasticity and Preference; Emotional Empathy

(20:04) Debriefing and Understanding; Supplementing Relationships and Visual Thinking; Joke 3 and Fixated Interests and Perfect Intensity- the DSM can have it's "abnormal" label; Echolalia; Fitting In and Modeling as a Blueprint

(26:03) Wrap-Up; Don't try to change an Autistic Person because They are "different" than you; Contact Information

In Part 2 of the Excitation and Inhibition phenomena, we discuss Metabolic "bank" account and demands of navigating the social world. We discuss if we have enough resources or if we will run a metabolic deficits (think burnout and avoidance, and social isolation). We cover NMDA and AMPA and different Autistic Phenotypes. In addition, we review Neuromodulators, which are vast in our biology and determine how and where to direct our attention and energy. Lastly, we discuss the medial Prefrontal Cortex and how it integrates the "self" with the outside world.

Don't try to change an Autistic person because they are different than you or different than others. Don't let that offend your beliefs and capacity to apply critical thinking in life.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-023-02317-5

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5723386/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-018-0155-1

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature10360

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1034/j.1601-183X.2003.00037.x?sid=nlm%3Apubmed

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-022-01506-w

(0:00) Introduction; Know Autism and Make Informed Decisions; Biological Aspects influencing Excitation / Inhibition Phenomena

(4:30) Metabolic "Bank" Account and Resources; E/I creates criteria A and B; NMDA and AMPA, and more on the Striatum

(10:02) Neuromodulators- Serotonin, Dopamine, Epinephrine and Norepinephrine, Acetylcholine; Active versus Passive Coping; Activating Systems and Cells and influencing Learning and Memory (Neuroplasticity); Nicotinic Receptors and Rapid-Excitation

(15:20) medial Prefrontal Cortex (mPFC)- Metabolic demands and planning while considering Feelings, Integrating the Self and the Outside World; How E/I interacts; a brief explanation on Default Mode Network; Quieting the Body, or not; Information-Processing; Thalamocortical

(20:19) Pursuits and Preference- Wanting and Having and being Autistic is fine, and others need to accept our phenotypes; sensory-input causes Faster Firing Rates in normal E/I- Image an imbalanced E/I

(22:25) Wrap-up and understanding Autism, and Contact Info