ASD Individual

That’s not linear, vary from individual to individual

The biggest part of any disorder’s cure is the understanding or awareness of it,
without any label or judgment.

Autism as a spectrum

Autism is the most stress-based, anxiety-ridden disorder that varies widely and is often referred to, as a “spectrum of conditions”.

However, this spectrum is not linear. It is not possible to line-up autistic people, as being more or less autistic.

Instead, there is a wide scale, as different features of autism vary from individual to individual, as well as changes over their lifespan.

How an autistic person appears in a particular environment, may not be representative of how they appear in another.
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Processing differently

The way that autistic people process their environment can lead to areas of strength or of difficulty, vary between individuals and may not be immediately obvious. For example, autistic people can have:
  • Strong attention to detail
  • Above average technical or creative skills
  • Character strengths, such as honesty and loyalty
  • Differences in sensory processing, including over- and under sensitivity
  • Difficulty foreseeing what response is going to happen next (within them, or i.e. how the other person might respond to them)
  • Difficulty knowing or understanding what other people think or feel

For someone with ASD, intuition or what you pick up with your senses is highly advanced, but it’s not possible to be filed in a cerebral way. The experience is always new and momentary, so the difficulty is capturing the sensation, or its mental, and psychological observation.

Sensory overload

An autistic person might be okay with a regular classroom school setting but when it comes to social gatherings, like an assembly they will become highly overwhelmed and consequently shut down.
The sensorial influx onto their senses is so overwhelmingly high volume – hence their response, might be unpredictably rude and aggressive. Yes, if feeling pushed against the wall with any kind of emotional or sensory overload, one might push people or they trigger away, which applies for everyone.

Trigger…

However, with an autistic person this scenario can occur much more frequently and cannot be predicted. One cannot know what triggers a sensory overload, so people with
ASD are constantly at risk, to suddenly find themselves in a situation that triggers sensory overload. The trigger, but more so the response to who or what triggers the sensory overload.
Therefore, tools like TM are of utmost importance to help feeling in control of their responses and so building up emotional resilience.

Lack of empathy is a misconception

Individuals with autism are not sensitive or lack empathy.

They might have difficulty to feel another person’s pain, but they are truly aware and are deeply concerned when in contact with someone in pain, however they want to relieve the other person from that pain.

On the surface, the general perception, ….

therefore misconception is that empathy is something that they are not capable of.

They might not be able to understand and express a response to your experience. However, that doesn’t mean that they can’t feel for you in that experience.

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How are they different then?

Mirror neurons help us recognise and imitate behaviour in the prefrontal cortex, by mirroring and imitating picked-up emotions of others. They have fewer mirror-neurons than other neuro-typical people.
It’s not the lack of empathy. It’s a different way of perceiving others, a difference in how the brain is (re)wired. That’s where the majority of the insensitive categorisation and stigmatism is coming from. In addition, a lack of understanding or inaccurate media-portraits adds to this misconception.
The misconception is that we can’t feel empathy, when on the contrary we are conditioned to immediately solve the problem we sense in the person opposite us, we feel confronted with.

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