Autism

[UPDATE: Original post on 8-11-2020 11:54 AM - Fixed typos. Corrected verbiage. Added details to arguments.  Added ways to prevent or mitigate cases of autism based on the assumptions below being correct. 12-18-2020 05:47 PM]

 

[NOTE:  I haven't had a chance to finish this post.  Am pretty sure there's enough here for anyone to completely refute it or run with the idea to implement some simple changes to prevent a large percentage of autism cases.  My actual work has suffered while working on these posts and I don't want that to continue and get fired.  :) ]

   This post follows Night Terrors and  tries to make the argument for autism resulting from the same underlying cause as PTSD in adults.  If that's true then cases should be easily reduced with a few small changes.  It also suggests ways to treat or try to reverse the condition.

   What are the most common symptoms associate with autism?

   What about vaccinations could be considered a traumatic stress event?  Pretty much all of it to a young child:

• An unfamiliar place - doctors office
• A stranger acting as familiar as mom or dad
• No explanation that can provide understanding - the child is trusting that everything's ok
• For probably the first time, one or more pieces of sharp metal being pushed through the skin.
• Then shock can occur as everything finally starts to register.  It's not good that a child can end up interpreting this as being punished for something they didn't do

   What can all this add up to?

   A dissociation.

   What's worse is it occurs while a child's mind is still developing.  Consciousness and awareness are in the process of finding their place in the mind.  The conscious and unconscious sub minds can still be easily shocked out of their roles even without physical trauma say from a car accident.

   And for a child the event can be as jarring as one that happens to an adult and causes PTSD (a more fully developed mind).  When this happens to an adult they go through a process of adjusting to the dissociation until it's resolved.

   But an adult's mind has had a chance to develop.

   A child's mind isn't fully developed.  The shock to it can not only interfere with development.  It can damage the development that's already occurred.

   I can't prove this point but am throwing it out there to be ridiculed:

What we see in autism is a disruption that's occurred related to awareness.  It's an unconscious mind problem that's been introduced before development has finished defining what we refer to as the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind.