
Autism is NOT a Handicap
The Autistic Vision
The world as seen by the truly autistic, the autistic vision of all that is around it, differs from that of the non-autist whose brain functions in accordance with a different system. A differing consciousness naturally accompanies. Consciousness has been described as “the perception of what passes in a man’s own mind”.
That consciousness is dependant on the functioning of the brain has been recorded dating back to ancient times. Although understanding in detail of the neural mechanisms of consciousness has escaped achievement, correlations between states of consciousness and functions of the brain are possible, but as in the same way that the function of the autistic brain is not understood, neither is its related (raised) consciousness.
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A Nightmare World
Why do we constantly refer to the autistic world as a nightmare? Why do we say children are ‘trapped’ in the ‘nightmare world of autism’? Why do we refer to autism as a ‘terrible affliction’?
Reality?
What makes people think that an autist is not happy in their own world or frame of mind? Reality as viewed by the autist is purely an alternative reality. Who dare say that in the vastness of this universe there is but one reality? Autism is not a handicap brought about by a brain disorder or a disorder of the brain. It is perfectly in its correct order for a species that is in itself an alternative order of being, and so, yes, they will see, hear, smell, taste and feel things differently.
Reality is simply a term of convenience as is the acceptance of man-made clocks, watches, calendars etc to designate and entrap a concept of Time. Who dare say there are not alternative time scales? We can look at a burnt out star light years away - we still see it, but in reality it is not there, we are viewing its abandoned image or echo of its past existence, owing to the time lapse it has taken its once light to reach us. Some classic autists are on a differing time scale functioning in the same manner as larval cocoons such as found in the world of the entomological Lepidoptera family, the primary stage of the autistic spectrum containing residents who are living as if in a cocoon not to be disturbed throughout this passing, transient existence.
The collective vast experience shared by the majority of world population on our daily time scale is a process self-programmed by each and every individual’s brain. Here we speak of those without the condition we call autism. The ‘reality’ of all around us is self-programmed at such a great speed that we are completely unaware that we are assuming the role of an Editor in his editing suite - as can be seen in any standard television broadcasting studio - editing a cinematic film in our constantly flowing video, or daily life. Non-autists using the vastly common open departments of their brain in this fashion, edit out a very great number of things that are going on about us in this world, which include all manners of vibrations, frequencies and rays that are generally referred to as unseen and unheard. In ‘reality’ they are there, and do exist. Because we rely so heavily on this system of editing out, we are then automatically put at odds, or out of synch, with the hyper sensitive person with autism and their strangely opened additional channels and alternative brain functions. The autist is unbridled from a conditioned perception. Confusion as to our finalized everyday product (ie, all that is around us and how we interpret it) and perspective with what is actual external reality, is the Maya (or illusion) of normal consciousness, as spoken of by the Buddha.
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Inside-Out & Mirror Images
Recent advances in scientific study have begun to demonstrate reasonably the reality of that we have called telepathy, both short and long range. Some commentators wonder if telepathy was once something so natural in the remote past that we have lost the ability in the same sense that we are losing touch with Nature by our manifold ways of abusing it - the Amerindian rainforest, pollution via toxins and heavy metals etc. The telephone, as science has replaced nature, is therefore an externalised physical manifestation of what was/may still be an innate and quite natural ability. It is an example of an ‘inside out’. Autists are ‘inside out’, a peculiar statement, I agree, but one I hope to explain, although how can we look into something that is inside out? We can quickly view this inside out effect if we pick up a long elastic band and twist it into a figure eight. At the point of intersection, the outer edge will become the inner. The bizarre mannerisms of autists are also externalisations - they are the externalised versions of non-autists’ senses and emotions. Their condition is an externalised blindness, deafness and mutism. They do not ‘see’ as we mistakenly perceive them to, neither hear nor speak. It is as a child in the womb as yet unborn.
I draw emphasis to the ‘mirror image’ effect of the autist, the inside-out of autism, a condition like a swan swimming in and through glass. This image in the mirror returns us to the ‘imago’, a term describing an insect in its mature stage after metamorphosis. The autist, as discovered in the middle 1940’s, is in the earliest stages of a gradual process, evolutionary, in which something changes into a significantly different, especially more complex or sophisticated form. Did we never stop to think that the human race as we know it, rather like a train arriving at a station at its final destination and hitting the buffers, would come to an end and start to mutate ?
From ‘Normal’ To ‘Autistic’
In keeping with this inside out role, the emergence of autistic births acts also as a homeopathic appearance (how this can be is explained cosmologically and fully in Sutra X of ‘Buddha and The Autist’) as in recent years we have experienced an increase in numbers of children who are descending into an ‘autistic state’ after having been ‘normal’, the only thing common to them all being that they come from allergic-type families with histories of asthma, eczema or sinusitis, the rise in these conditions a grave consequence of the lack of oxygen that is endangering our planet through the thinning of the ozonosphere.
The MMR Vaccine
The ongoing argument over whether the MMR vaccine (Measles, Mumps & Rubella) given routinely to hundreds of thousands of children in Britain every year (launched in 1988) causes the condition of autism is a something that we simply cannot endorse, as pure and true autistic people are born, not created. Such a child’s autism does not surface until after an ‘incubation’ period whilst it acclimatises to oxygen and breathing around about the time of 36 months. It is true, however, that the MMR vaccine will aggravate the condition in those who already are autistic. As the measles virus infection has been detected in non-autistic control children groups, it is disappointing to witness this issue being exaggerated out of all proportion - a further upset to parents - and is even referred to as not the ‘classic autism’ where children are seen to fail to develop ‘normally’ at all, but appears to be an entirely new disease.
Secretin & The Natural Delay
The effect of Secretin, the possible ‘treatment’ for autism described by experts as near miraculous, is investigated and explained in full in Sutra XX of ‘Buddha and The Autist’, however, here is a concise account; Autists are a naturally delayed species functioning at a designated pace so that, collectively, they are to meet with an appointed Event - in the correct place at the correct time. Rather like many a certatn plant seed that will grow at a rate and then sit ‘still’ for perhaps seasons before taking off again. The ‘cure’ of Secretin is afforded by ‘fast forwarding’ the autist - as in a video - from its usual personalised time clock, an atomic clock, an extremely precise timekeeping device regulated in correspondence with a characteristic invariant frequency of an atomic or molecular system (a comparison being that of a sun dial - natural - to that of a man made digital clock). This speeding up puts the autist out of synch with its autism to simulate an enforced ‘normalcy’ although the child will always remain truly autistic.
The Animal Kingdom & Radiation
Animals are said to be mutants when they show characteristics different from the rest of their species, mutations being the process by which hereditary properties of some of the reproductive cells in animals alter. Rare, and the causes of which little is known, in Nature these changes take place both spontaneously and unpredictably. Presently, the most common cause of animal mutation are the twin spearheads of chemical substances and radiation pollutants (In recent years, owing to some rivers flowing through or near industrial areas, it has been observed that fish in these polluted rivers have started to change sex).
It is known that parents suffering the effects of above average radiation have given birth to mutant animals - cows who have been known to grow a fifth leg. In the Pacific Islands, a literal hot-bed for conducted nuclear tests, fish there have ‘forgotten’ how to swim, and have ended up on land, birds have lost the power of flight (some born with only one wing) and turtle mutants have perished after losing the ability to find the sea. As radioactivity resulting from nuclear bomb tests can cause ingenuous quantities of radiostrontium and radiocaesium to get into food (an increasing blight to children), what are we to make of the great many furtive covert global tests since the actual overt atomic bombings of Japan in 1945 (obviously, initial tests on these done prior) - autists being discovered in the mid-40’s also - and the Russian Chernobyl disaster of 1986? These doses of radiation have gone up into the atmosphere and circled the earth, not just Japan and Russia. In 1953, the Atomic Energy Commission detonated nuclear A-bombs, numerous, at Nevada in America, increasing the radioactive content of the air by substantial amounts. Tons of volatile metallic particles were raised into the stratosphere with each blast, polluting the air over the United States with radioactivity and with submicroscopic particles of metal which had once been the bombs themselves.
Chemical Increase
Newer chemicals released into the environment have brought about a combination cocktail that has poisoned different types of bacteria in soil and water, which are essential to keep the circulation of nitrogen from the air into organic material, and re-cycled back into the air creating an almost unbreathable air. (In one minute alone of everyday activity, 1/2 pint of oxygen needs to be transferred from the air to our blood). As 1999 came to its closing chapter, there is a significant concern across the globe pertaining to growing numbers of men affected by low sperm count and an increase in testicular cancer and of reproductive system abnormalities. It is as if Nature is effecting a safety stop valve to reduce the earth’s severe population crisis. It has also been noticed that not only is there a significant rise in people contracting allergies suddenly - some to things that once have been a favourite item or commodity to the person - but also that routines, rituals and obsessional behaviours amongst ‘normal’ people are now on the increase, no reasons forthcoming, as if the once chasmic gulf between autistic behaviours and non is shrinking and becoming closer. We know that children are slipping into what is being described as autistic-like states through the eating of certain foodstuffs. There is also the increase in child delinquency, their behaviour easily emulating the tantrum displayed in autism, also panic and anxiety attacks in adults.
Evolution
What is happening? All is changing and evolving, for all is change. Nature/natural evolution is in its earliest stages of producing a revised neurological order capable of adapting to accommodating living requirements for this changing planet, the same way that black/brown races were designed with an overload of melatonin to give a skin that protects the increased sun exposure that their geography subjects them to. Autistic births are the earliest stage of this new directive.
Liable critics of some of the statements made on this web site may say that our definitions and explanations are, to use a popular cliché, “far out”. The sun, our nearest star and solely responsible for all life forms on our planet, is some 93,000,000 miles distant. Quite “far out” itself.