Please tell me I am common in this pool

[renaeden]

I had a frontal lobe attack today, btw folks. Bye now.

What's a frontal lobe attack? :: envisions some strange brain things ::

[Blandit]

I think it means that Mon-key was more coherent and structured today. But once the frontal-lobe attack ceases, she will be back the the staccato bullet speech where her brain runs much faster than her typing skills and the rest of us try to keep up with her thinking as we latch on and hold tight for dear life, while our hair sweeps back in the wind and the centrifugal force flattens our faces and makes our lips flap and AAaaahhhh!!!!

Am I correct? (either that, or vice-versa!)

[Mon-Key]

I think it means that Mon-key was more coherent and structured today. But once the frontal-lobe attack ceases, she will be back the the staccato bullet speech where her brain runs much faster than her typing skills and the rest of us try to keep up with her thinking as we latch on and hold tight for dear life, while our hair sweeps back in the wind and the centrifugal force flattens our faces and makes our lips flap and AAaaahhhh!!!!

Am I correct? (either that, or vice-versa!)

LMAO!!! No. LOL. It's a word I picked up from Sophist, I think, to describe the entity of some sort of attacks I've been having. Its when the front of my head hurts, and I get white noise, and the lights get bright and FLAT (UGHHHH!), and i start doing this math until i get stuck into this inability to draw myself away enough to focus.

COz see, normally, my focus is like, UGH- intense! And i liked it til yesterday, when, for the first time ever, it got more and more rapid until there were so many calculations going on in my head that they started to run by reeeaaaly fast...

and THAT kept me in this place, where, I couldn't focus on ANYTHING! I felt shut into my own thoughts and I wanted to just kill myself.

BTW, guys, this is an event I'm kind of just having. I haven't known about AS for very long. But I know now it's related. I also know that things are happening to me that, for lack of a better way of saying it, I can't control.
Like these damned "seizures". AT this time, while I'm noticing a certain ability to adapt to the math I always seem to dwell in, I can only pray for some drug that will force me to stop thinking in logical terms. I'm wishing to be dumb as a doorknob, in other words. Unless I can adapt. Sorry to be so incoherent at times. I'm not sure whats going on in my head. bye
BTW Blandit that was a RIOT!!!

[ukenkerl]

Well, AS is acquired before 2!

Steve

[Sophist]

Well, AS is acquired before 2!

Steve

If Dr. Casanova's postmortem findings can be used to infer ( shows much promise but still needs more study), then ASDs are "acquired" within the first ten weeks of foetal life. This is due to cortical cell division. All minicolumns and the pyramidal cells within them, as far as number count, are decided within the first ten weeks during gestation. And auties, at least those Dr. C has studied to date, have all had increased cell counts within the cortical minicolumns.

[renaeden]

What about Mon-key's head injury (written about in another thread as well)?

[Blandit]

Mon-key wrote: Its when the front of my head hurts, and I get white noise, and the lights get bright and FLAT (UGHHHH!), and i start doing this math until i get stuck into this inability to draw myself away enough to focus.



Sounds more like a Math Attack to me. Mathematics can be very dangerous to the mind. I tried multiplying 3 digit numbers in my head once; it really hurt! Try some yoga, instead.

[ukenkerl]

Well, AS is acquired before 2!

Steve

If Dr. Casanova's postmortem findings can be used to infer ( shows much promise but still needs more study), then ASDs are "acquired" within the first ten weeks of foetal life. This is due to cortical cell division. All minicolumns and the pyramidal cells within them, as far as number count, are decided within the first ten weeks during gestation. And auties, at least those Dr. C has studied to date, have all had increased cell counts within the cortical minicolumns.

I was just stating what the manual says. Before 2 could mean from inception, but it definately doesn't include 3.

And YEP! I always wanted to see my brain, but never more than now. You are almost certainly right about it being genetic, ESPECIALLY since it runs in families, etc... and so many are caucasion.

Steve

[Sophist]

Well, AS is acquired before 2!

Steve

If Dr. Casanova's postmortem findings can be used to infer ( shows much promise but still needs more study), then ASDs are "acquired" within the first ten weeks of foetal life. This is due to cortical cell division. All minicolumns and the pyramidal cells within them, as far as number count, are decided within the first ten weeks during gestation. And auties, at least those Dr. C has studied to date, have all had increased cell counts within the cortical minicolumns.

I was just stating what the manual says. Before 2 could mean from inception, but it definately doesn't include 3.

And YEP! I always wanted to see my brain, but never more than now. You are almost certainly right about it being genetic, ESPECIALLY since it runs in families, etc... and so many are caucasion.

Steve

I had a CAT scan done in my teen years. Of course at the time I wasn't really into the brain. Can't tell how much I'm kicking myself now for not requesting some kind of printout-- or at least sitting at that monitor for an hour or so "exploring".

[ukenkerl]

YEAH, I had a cat scan done only about 1.5 years ago! IRONICALLY is was STUPID! I had profuse bleeding, and the ONLY logical reason for the cat scan WOULD have been to determine if there was brain damage. Of course, IF such a thing happened, I would have been dead before they got to me. I wonder how long they keep that stuff.

Steve

[Sophist]

YEAH, I had a cat scan done only about 1.5 years ago! IRONICALLY is was STUPID! I had profuse bleeding, and the ONLY logical reason for the cat scan WOULD have been to determine if there was brain damage. Of course, IF such a thing happened, I would have been dead before they got to me. I wonder how long they keep that stuff.

Steve

They may still have it. Whether they'd release a printout may be a different story though.

[Iam]

I believe they would release a printout, assuming they still had it, upon request of your primary care physician.

[Sophist]

I got mine done 9 years ago. I wonder how long they keep those...

[NeantHumain]

I'm sorry, Mon-Key, but I have a bit of trouble following some of your posts. I really don't see sharing one's knowledge or discussing ideas as bragging at all although some people (even aspies!) have described me as arrogant or a show-off for doing so. I don't do it to demonstrate my knowledge or intelligence as being greater than others'; I do it because I assume other people are curious and like to learn too. If they don't find what I have to say interesting, I don't mind if they don't listen. This is a prime example of what I meant when I wrote, "NTs seem hellbent on interpreting all...behavior in a social-relations context."

Sometimes criticism is useful and constructive; it helps a person improve upon faults and make things better. At other times, criticism (like someone claiming you are bragging) is not constructive but rather comes from some primitive, reactive part of the critic's mind; this kind of criticism usually comes without proof that the alleged flaw even exists. This kind of criticism should never be taken personally and is best ignored. Not ignoring it is akin to changing one's preferences just because someone says, "Yuck! How can you like chocolate? The whole wide world knows vanilla tastes much better!"

People like to express their opinions, well reasoned or not, and in the end, it's best just not to worry about other people's opinion of you at all.