As a moderately autistic patient, I have a great sympathy for this film!

Natalia 2021-10-20 17:42:32

This article discusses the exaggerated elements of movies and dramas that have been eliminated.

Regarding autism (named differently in different regions), the mainstream of society will have one or more prejudices and even discrimination against it, such as uncomfortable, withdrawn, weird, deep in the city, and conspiracy. Most people also believe that consciousness is everything. As long as you have a strong consciousness, you can change it through positive effort acquired. But is this really the case?

The truth is that matter determines everything. The difference in the spirit and behavior of each person is only the manifestation of the nature, arrangement, mutual induction, and environmental stress of the brain's nerve cells. It is true that acquired experiences (learning, doing things, etc.) can greatly affect the brain's neural network (mainly in terms of environmental stress), but this cannot change some innately determined and fundamental brain operating mechanisms. And autism is one of the extreme cases of these brain abnormalities (please forgive me for not using the traditional mainstream definition of defect).

Next, we will conduct a thorough questioning on autism, what exactly is autism. It is also mentioned in the film that its core performance is that it has always been very focused and only pays attention to a few things! Extending, there will be several complications: 1. Social dysfunction, not thinking about or being unable to establish sufficient communication with others due to few interests and topics of concern, even if you memorize social methods by rote, it will be due to inner potential , Forced indifference and become inefficient. It should be noted that patients do not always want to communicate with others, but often end up with ineffectiveness and inefficiency. At the same time, this will aggravate this symptom in terms of acquired stress. 2. Obsessive-compulsive disorder, when dealing with one thing wholeheartedly, it is difficult and very unwilling to be interrupted, even if the acquired experience tells us that we must stop, otherwise it will bring all kinds of harm (insomnia is a manifestation of obsessive-compulsive disorder, the more you tell The brain cannot continue to think about things, the more it cannot control the results.). Once disturbed or terminated, it may cause a third symptom: 3. Anxiety. Autism is more directly related to 1, and there are certain similarities between 2 and 3, but it cannot be deduced that 2, 3 is definitely autism.

So, is autism a lot of harm but no benefit? the answer is negative. This is not a conclusion drawn from the film, and patients do not necessarily have stronger learning and handling skills than ordinary people. The reason is simple. Long-term concentration is a double-edged sword in itself. You may neglect and fail to do many other things because of it, leading to failure in life, or you may do a few things well because of it. He has become an expert and master in various fields. Of course, the proportions of these two odds can be thought of without data.

There are far more people with autism than we thought. It is also mentioned in the film that 1 in 68 children in the United States has some form of autism. I believe this is not alarmist, just because autism itself is a large type of syndrome, with different severity. Mild symptoms can be partially offset or even undetected through acquired training efforts. But the serious ones will accompany for life. Just as the protagonist in the film has mastered many superb skills through study and hard work, but these can not make up for his eternal gap in communication.

Take me as an example. Since I was a child, my family and community environment can be said to be normal at the time. But in retrospect, I have already performed well before enrolling, and then I was not well in elementary school, middle school, university, and work. The turn of the person has always been an individual who has been isolated and rejected. Although I was aware of this phenomenon, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't solve it. It was only in recent years that I realized this disease through various film propaganda and Internet knowledge. In addition, the job is changed again and again. In the eyes of many people, I am just a loser who is not proactive enough and not working hard enough. But behind the apparent results, what they didn't see was that I worked harder than others for things or tasks that I liked or undertaken. I can afford this "bull". It's just that in many industries, these efforts are insignificant compared to interpersonal communication.

Finally, I want to emphasize that I am not here to complain without brains. I am just feeling the hardships of patients with congenital brain abnormalities in a normal society and treated by mainstream views. At present, many people and organizations abroad have advocated paying attention to people with autism, but few people in China have proposed the concept of this disease (but whether it is mentioned or not, you admit it or not, natural phenomena will always happen, they just don't give a dman. ), and most of our patients have been isolated or abandoned by society due to various prejudices. Although my personal strength is small, I have to give out a shout. At the same time, I also hope that other influential people will give a strong call to use practical actions to build a comprehensive, inclusive and harmonious society.

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  • Brax: When you interrupt somebody like that, it makes them feel that you're just not interested in what they have to say. Or maybe you think what you have to say is just more important that what I have to say. Is that what you think?