Re: Finally ... a cure!

[Guest guest]

If it weren't for the fact that people like this are serious, and they have

a lot of influence, this might actually be funny.

I find it a little odd that their web site is called " conniptions " , which

is certainly not a name I'd choose for *my* company if I had one -- do they

know what a conniption is?

--Parrish

At 12:54 PM 8/6/2003, you wrote:

>Hi everybody ... have a read of this. I particularly loved the line

>about 'transforming the savant brain into a human one'. And

>there was me thinking all me life I was a paid up homo sapiens.

>Regards

>Dave

>

>Press Release Source: Practical Growth, Inc.

>

>Autism Insights and Animations Show Adult Overcome Asperger

>Syndrome

>Monday August 4, 7:32 am ET

>

>BOCA RATON, Fla., Aug. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Practical Growth, Inc.

>offers a unique media experience and a NEW PARADIGM FOR

>UNDERSTANDING AUTISM. Animations document one

>person's understanding and overcoming incurable and

>mysterious autism, Asperger Syndrome, and the Savant Brain

>via a new website: Cosmic Conniptions (www.conniptions.com)

>offering CDs of autism's inner worlds.

>

>Results from a decade and half research project can be read

>online. How I Came To Understand, then Overcome Autism

>Conditions ... from the Inside Out appears in AutismToday.com

>(www.AutismToday.com) an online major autism portal founded

>by parents of autistic children detailing personal experiences to

>overcome gruesome and mysterious autist conditions where

>science has no cure.

>

>Autism, Asperger Syndrome, and pervasive disorders are

>estimated to occur in one person out of 160 growing

>exponentially for unknown reasons. That equals 2 million

>Americans and 30 million worldwide. Another 8 million

>Americans and 120 million others are affected comprising

>families, caretakers, and researchers -- costing an estimated

>$14 BILLION a year in the U.S.

>

>Multimedia animations depict living with, understanding (yes, a

>revolutionary understanding), then completely overcoming

>autism and Asperger Syndrome, transforming a savant brain into

>a human one. (http://www.conniptions.com/autism-cds.html).

>Multimedia animations vibrate with life, color, and sound created

>by Brier, color-blind until 1994. CDs are available on his

>website.

>

>Living with Autism, a multimedia CD, depicted in Autism

>Labyrinth draws parallels between the inner autist drama as the

>reliving of the ancient Greek Labyrinth myth causing difficulties

>affecting communication, social relatedness, and sensory

>processing. This CD is intended as both a parable and a path

>and guidance out of autism and pervasive disorders. Family,

>researchers, caretakers, and those afflicted with sufficient ability

>to absorb can benefit as well as anyone interested in the human

>condition.

>

>Inside My Rainman Brain CD shows how thinking and memory

>replace and do the work of absent feelings and sensations.

>Unique insights into savantism from a recovered savant open

>the door to understanding, future research, and resolution of this

>mysterious condition.

>

>Insights to understand autism animate Jung's Ideas Worked CD

>(C.G. Jung, the Swiss psychologist). Explore practical application

>of insights for understanding autism like Psychology of Types,

>archetypal and shadow theories (integrating parts of ourselves

>we don't know).

>

>Black & White Became Color: Neurogenesis CD depicts

>overcoming autist conditions including seeing color for the first

>time in 1994 decades after birth, then touch, taste, and feeling

>taking until 2003. Animations take you inside an unusual

>scientific anomaly of adult human neurogenesis or brain

>regeneration.

>

>Autism Library of Science and Spirit is part of Conniptions

>website with 2,000 annotated links referencing many diverse

>areas of learning and knowledge down many roads less

>traveled over a decade and a half of 24/7 efforts.

>

>Press are invited to request a sample CD.

>

> CONTACT:

> Brier

> Practical Growth, Inc.

> Phone:

> Fax:

> steve@...

> www.conniptions.com

>

>

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>information, visit http://www.ereleases.com.

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[Guest guest]

osler_david wrote:

> Hi everybody ... have a read of this. I particularly loved the line

> about 'transforming the savant brain into a human one'. And there was

> me thinking all me life I was a paid up homo sapiens.

That line was a brief glance into the mindset of many people... we're

not even human unless we're like them. And, of course, not being human

means that we are not entitled to the rights humans have. Only humans

have rights in a world run by humans. Kind of like the pigs in Orwell's

Animal Farm.

While on one very big level, that statement is insulting, I have to say

that I have never really considered myself human. I knew what humans

were, as a child... they were all the people around me, the ones that

looked like me but did not act or think like me. Human nature did not

seem to apply to me. I must, then, not be human. I still call NTs

" humans " sometimes; in my mind, there is no distinction. I restrict

that usage of " human " to people that understand what I mean when I say

" human, " to avoid confusion.

I have no known savant skills (except possibly for hyperlexia; it has

been suggested that this may be a savant skill), but I can firmly say

that I do not want to have my brain transformed into a human one.

[Guest guest]

Call me an alien, call me weird, call me eccentric, but don't call me a

vegetable!

Quoting Klein :

> osler_david wrote:

>

> > Hi everybody ... have a read of this. I particularly loved the line

> > about 'transforming the savant brain into a human one'. And there was

> > me thinking all me life I was a paid up homo sapiens.

>

> That line was a brief glance into the mindset of many people... we're

> not even human unless we're like them. And, of course, not being human

> means that we are not entitled to the rights humans have. Only humans

> have rights in a world run by humans. Kind of like the pigs in Orwell's

> Animal Farm.

>

> While on one very big level, that statement is insulting, I have to say

> that I have never really considered myself human. I knew what humans

> were, as a child... they were all the people around me, the ones that

> looked like me but did not act or think like me. Human nature did not

> seem to apply to me. I must, then, not be human. I still call NTs

> " humans " sometimes; in my mind, there is no distinction. I restrict

> that usage of " human " to people that understand what I mean when I say

> " human, " to avoid confusion.

>

> I have no known savant skills (except possibly for hyperlexia; it has

> been suggested that this may be a savant skill), but I can firmly say

> that I do not want to have my brain transformed into a human one.

>

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

At 04:54 PM 8/6/2003 +0000, you wrote:

>Hi everybody ... have a read of this. I particularly loved the line

>about 'transforming the savant brain into a human one'. And

>there was me thinking all me life I was a paid up homo sapiens.

>Regards

>Dave

><SNIP>

got this in June

never did figure out how to deal with it - it's still sitting in my inbox

looking at me.....

***

I visited and appreciated your website and you are really doing a great

job on your Maze. Your content will be of interest to my visitors at

Autism Library of Science and Spirit, part of Cosmic Conniptions, my

phrase describing my personal experience with understanding and

overcoming high functioning autism as an adult. A section is devoted

to computers since I used them extensively to both understand and

overcome autism. Please also check out the Jung section and the rest.

You would apprecitate, I trust.

I have linked to you in several places. Here is one. I have already

placed a link to your site along with a description at http://www.

conniptions.com/arelis/ and may be found at Computers and Internet and

Autism. The title is Technology and Software and description is

Autism Spectrum Technology and Software If you would like to modify

either please advise and will be happy to do so.

We seek compatible link partners to enable our visitors to locate

useful information about Living with, Understanding, and Overcoming

Autism.

I would appreciate if you consider adding our valuable content to your

website by linking back. Suitable text or banners are at: http://www.

conniptions.com/links.html

Best regards,

Steve Brier

Autism Library of Science and Spirit

Cosmic Conniptions: Living with, Understanding and Overcoming Autism

www.conniptions.com

steve@...

Fax:

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-jypsy

________________________________

Ooops....Wrong Planet! Syndrome

Autism Spectrum Resources

www.PlanetAutism.com

jypsy@...

[Guest guest]

In school I was almost always last picked (talking jr high right now)

because I was short skinny and not very coordinated. Sometime between

the middle of 8th grade or so and my freshman year of high school,

though, I developed something that almost resembled coordination, and

became a very aggressive player, so in high school I was in the middle

for when I was picked.

Now if we play a team sport among my friends, and we pick teams (rare,

usually we just kind of divide it up) I'm among the first picked...I'm

still not great at basketball, for example, which is our usual sport,

but I tend to make up for what I lack in size and ability with speed and

aggression. Almost all my friends who do this are male, and while I am a

girl, apparently I " play like a guy " -so whoever has me on their team

essentially has one extra player who's VERY good at defense, but who no

one will guard because they're being male chauvenists or chivalrous or

whatever term they choose to use for it.

THe only sport I am actually GOOD at is tumbling/trampoline. ITs a great

vestibular stim, good proprioceptive, and an individual thing. I'm not

the least bit talented (unless not getting dizzy is a talent...), but I

am stubborn enough that I got to quite a high level.

Kassiane the rambler

< RE: Finally ... a cure!

I always got picked first, probably only because I was bigger

than everyone else, but I couldn't play worth a damn. I played

basketball in high school PE and was always getting busted for

being " in the key " . I didn't even know what " the key " was! I got

an " F " in wrestling because I wanted to wrestle, and they wanted

me to keep score because I was a " girl " , so I didn't do anything!

I played football (American, not Soccer or Rugby), again because

I was bigger and people got the hell out of my way. Up until I

was fifteen I ran everywhere I went, until someone told me that I

was drawing attention to myself, and I quit. Now I never run, not

even when chased (I have a fight response, no flight).

I used to climb trees too, until I decided one day that I would

fall and kill myself if I kept it up.

I am very strong, and have always been. People used to tell me

that I would get a hernia whenever I lifted something heavy, so I

would tell them that women don't get hernias, and they shut up. I

do stim a lot; but I never notice until my husband tells me to

quit. I am constantly moving my legs, quickly tightening the

muscles and then releasing them over and over, which rocks the

bed/couch and annoys hubby. I like to use my muscles, which is

probably why I am constantly taking my minivan apart and putting

it back together. Right now I am changing the power steering unit

(it howls; that's my story anyway).

Hubby wants a recumbent bike, too. He thinks it would be easier

on his back. I just hate riding bicycles, period. My oldest son

and I have mapped out a 2-mile walking pattern and we walk it

three times a week, since we are both getting seriously

overweight (he should weigh about 130, and weighs 168. I should

weigh about 155, and weigh 186.

Louis

From:

Trying to remember team sports in school.

The one I most recall clearly first happening is soccer

(football). I

got the " kicking the ball " part. I did not understand much more

of the

game. I would run for the ball and try to kick it. I was good

at

kicking it and good at drop-kicking it. I knew nothing of

positions and

barely anything of rules.

Naturally, I was picked last, although I barely even noticed I

was

picked last and wasn't bothered by it. The thing I was most

bothered by

were people who got between me and the ball, and the general

chaos on

the field.

I got a lot of exercise as a kid climbing things. I think I

climbed

things since I was 3 or earlier. Particularly trees. Never fell

out of

a tree until I was 19 years old. (My coordination was starting

to get

very messed up.)

> It also appears that some of us have to exercise a lot longer

and harder

> than NTs to get the same amount of muscle development. The

upside is that

> things atrophy more slowly as well. We may even age more

slowly.

I'd be interested in this -- I'd never noticed, except that at

the level

of (non-) exercise I get now I would think I would be a lot

physically

weaker. Instead, I seem to be almost as physically strong as

ever, just

with terrible endurance. (Of course, the terrible endurance is a

primary cause of the lack of exercise, although I've been getting

more

exercise now that I have services and can therefore expend the

mental

energy to exercise.)

However, I'm not sure how reliable my estimate of my own physical

strength is. I've lifted things I " shouldn't " be able to lift,

and been

told that this isn't a good idea. I've also shown such a

resistance to

common sense about where to stop in this area that police once

thought I

was on PCP. (It's even in my psych record somewhere that I used

PCP,

even though I never have.)

> Hyperactivity and stimming are natural defenses against

becoming too

> sedentary.

> They should not be medicated away, they are gifts and we

should use them!

> They are nature's way of telling you it is time to MOVE YOUR

BODY!

I'm very sedentary, but I stim a lot. In fact, I sometimes stim

past my

level of endurance.

> I am in much better shape now that I get my exercise dancing

> and bicycling than I ever was when I was in my teens or

twenties.

I'm trying to see if I can ride a bicycle again (balance problems

were

interfering with that for awhile too, but I want to see how much

of that

was neuroleptic withdrawal and how much of that may have stayed).

If I

can't, I'd like a three-wheel recumbent bike, although I can't

afford

one currently.

I did just take a walk around the apartments (right before

reading this

post on exercise <grin>), which I am hoping will add some toward

exercise. I have to walk a fine line between being so sedentary

it

leads to loss of stamina and doing so much it leads to crashing

and

being sedentary.

When I was younger (and before stamina problems showed up), I

used to be

able to walk or bicycle and rarely or never stop. I got a *lot*

more

exercise as a kid than I do now.

[Guest guest]

Miko715@... danced around singing:

>i find this interesting, as i seem to age slowly, yes.

I've always looked substantially younger than my age, according to what

other people say and how they treat me. I'm often asked questions that

suggest the person thinks I'm about 15 - 16 years old (like " have you

started driver's education yet? " or " so, this is your first or second year

in high school? " ) but I am now 26!

DeGraf ~*~ http://www.sonic.net/mustang/moggy

[Guest guest]

Bicycling has kept me in great shape for over 20 years, and I have good muscle

definition. But when it came to sports, I was no good. While I like to ride

fast, I don't have much desire to race. On the rare occasion when I do ride

with someone else, I do find myself riding faster than I would alone. I much

prefer to ride alone though. Never did I suspect that I was riding all these

miles under the specter of autism. ([:-o)

[Guest guest]

wrote:

>Bicycling has kept me in great shape for over 20 years, and I have good

>muscle definition. But when it came to sports, I was no good. While I

>like to ride fast, I don't have much desire to race. On the rare occasion

>when I do ride with someone else, I do find myself riding faster than I

>would alone. I much prefer to ride alone though. Never did I suspect

>that I was riding all these miles under the specter of autism. ([:-o)

Glad to see you're wearing a helmet, .

Jane -- helmetless non-biker :-o