Hi Dr. Gently! Really good, especially at keeping the fires going about understanding our differences and appreciating them, instead of pathologizing.

I have been working hard at trying to understand more completely the common denominator (or major variable) in the creation of many of the sensitivities and challenges (and huge upsides) that have been identified as part of the ASD picture. I have focused in on looking at how powerful the combination of general sensory amplification (locus coeruleus major influencer) PLUS data conflict sensitivity (high gain anterior cingulate cortex) could be understood as amping up pattern and dispattern recognition like no other hardware around. BTW, I do not talk much in the usual doc-speak.

I wonder if you would consider taking a look at three of my recent posts about sensory sensitivity, data conflict monitoring and one titled “Wouldn’t it be nice if hypocrisy made people sick. Guess what? It does, but not for enough of us.” Let me know your thoughts . . . or, just a thumbs up or down, if time constraints are at play.

Kudos for your work on these things. Understanding, I think, should lead to appreciation and ditching the term disability for the term vulnerability and ability for hardware default settings that were and are hugely valuable. That also might require changing the rule of gold to the golden rule.. . hmmm