The social majority of humans, in fact around 60-65% of people, can think predominantly in pictures. They’re visual thinkers. Another 30% of people can think predominantly in words or mental chatter. They’re verbal thinkers. These mechanisms allow people to INTERNALLY mentalise. They can think INSIDE of their heads.
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After doing a lecture called The Dietary Wheelchair about the role of dietary interventions in my own journey with autism, I was contacted by Cassie Wells from ORGRAN Natural Foods . She asked if I’d mind being interviewed for their magazine and I agreed and she generously accepted the additional publication of […]
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A student in Singapore, Asvin Kaur, asked me 5 questions and has agreed you can all benefit from their answers. Here they are:
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Paul Swann is a Commissioning & Planning Officer with Department of Adult Social Care at Wrexham County Borough Council in Wales, UK. In the run up to an evening lecture I’m doing in Wrexham on Tuesday 9th Sept 2008, I offered Paul to set me 5 questions for an email interview. […]
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My parents were party people in the 60s and 70s. Alcohol flowed and morality didn’t seem to be a family priority even though bravado, power and laughing things off and away, did. There seemed a recklessness, a constant reminder of ‘yeah, yeah, you’ll get over it’.
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Hi Donna, I wonder if you could answer a quick question. Do auties experience feelings of love? If so can they experience trauma through loss of a person, attachment or object? Many thanks.
Here’s my reply:
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I got this a question about the nature of ‘Autism Spectrum Disorder’. I was asked
In your opinion is ASD a learning disability, a neurological
condition or a mental health issue…or something entirely unique perhaps?
Here was my answer….
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Someone wrote to me about the differences between Exposure Anxiety (EA, as written about in the book, Exposure Anxiety; The Invisible Cage ) and Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA). Here are my reflections on those differences:
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I am seriously telling people in drought stricken suburbs, cities and towns to collect any large rubbish bins or industrial size builder’s tubs and place them around your back garden. Even put them under your rain pipes.
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A fellow autie was chatting with me about the autism spectrum and how categories of Autie and Aspie aren’t as clear cut as many imagine. We were chatting about those with features of each. I talked of Aspie-Auties and Autie-Aspies. She then jokes about Aspinauts, that this could describe those […]
Read the rest of The band, Elwood!; introducing Donna and the Aspinauts