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Autism Associated With Shorter Lifespan, According To UK Charity Study
Cognitive Dissident writes: It's only one study, but the results are disturbing. An article in The Guardian describes a study by the UK charity Autistica showing that all people on the autism spectrum, not just the profoundly autistic, seem to be dying much younger than the average. There is no single definable cause, though a higher rate of suicide is one problem, but the aggregate result is a much higher mortality rate than the general population. There is no single cause, but a higher rate of suicide is noted. "Autistic people with no learning disabilities are nine times more likely to die from suicide compared to the rest of the population, the report states." Looks like something that needs more attention and research, which the charity is trying to organize.
... are made for suicide and for well-known highly-correlated conditions like epilepsy?
In other words, do an Apples-to-Apples comparison, and answer these questions:
* What is the decrease in age attributable to suicide among those without other correlated conditions, compared to those in the general, non-Autism-spectrum population without correlated conditions.
* For each correlated condition, is there an increase in suicide compared to those not on the Autism spectrum who have the same correlated condition? If so, how much does this decrease the overall lifespan for those on the Autism spectrum?
* For each correlated condition, is there a non-suicide-caused decrease in lifespan compared to non-autistic-spectrum-disorder people with the same correlated condition, and if so, how big is it?
* For those who have neither a correlated condition nor who take their own life, is there a decrease in lifespan compared to the general population, and if so, how big is it?
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
People with autism don't lack the need or desire for socialization, they lack the instinctive understanding of how to achieve social relationships that everyone else takes for granted.
"Autistic people with no learning disabilities are nine times more likely to die from suicide compared to the rest of the population, the report states."
That's hardly surprising. Unlike 'normal' people, they concentrate all the attention to the job at hand, even if it's the job to killing yourself, so it's normal if they have higher 'success' rates.
That's exactly the problem: Autistic people do not want to be alone. They just can't stand the company.
Or rather, more often than not, the company cannot stand them. Detach yourself from the picture of that heavily impaired child that can't even accept a hug from his parents. Yes, that's part of the autism spectrum, but only one rather small aspect of it. You have a lot of people who appear "normal", until you have to interact with them. They are smart, sometimes exceptionally so, generally well adjusted (at least as adults, their childhood is usually a mess, but the eventually learned to "play a role"), yet they have incredible difficulties dealing with social situations and even more intimate ones.
For obvious reasons. These people had to learn social interactions the same way you'd learn a foreign language. Body language makes no sense to them. And neither do they "speak" with their body sensibly. Which in turn is VERY unsettling for "normal" people. Worst of all, you can't even put your finger on it because it's fully subconscious. You don't know WHY that odd fella is giving you the creeps. He just does.
And while you can somehow, eventually, emulate social protocols (because frankly, social situations are in the end just another form of process to be followed and a routine to be observed), that does not apply to anything involving more intimate or closer situations. You don't really get to watch and copy a lot here. Not to mention that people enjoy a responsive partner, something such a system based on mimicry of course cannot provide.
And yes, despite everything they're still humans and they would still like companionship. There just is no defined process for it that could be followed.
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Utter Tripe from a "nutritionist" NOT a scientist, Being both Asperger and having a child with the same, totally fed up with people referring to these quacks.
THERE IS NO EVIDENCE!!. only anecdotes!
For fucks sake stop repeating shit!