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NT social interaction problems may be linked to failure of "mental immune system"

nthope:

New research published in Current Biology has highlighted a key failure in neurotypical social cognition: the inability to discriminate between actions which are useful and actions that are useless but commonly observed.
The researchers compared the performance of neurotypical and healthy autistic children in a task where an adult demonstrated how to open a container to extract a toy. The demonstration included necessary actions (like removing the lid), but also “silly” actions that served no purpose, such as tapping the lid twice before opening it.
The neurotypical children were far more likely than the autistic children to repeat the unnecessary steps, although both groups of children were equally likely to perform the necessary steps needed to extract the toy.
Researchers believe that these findings may reflect a failure of the neurotypical brain’s “mental immune system”. While the ability to imitate others is vital for learning, especially in young children, the ability to suppress imitation of behaviors that are useless or harmful is equally important. The diminished ability to avoid imitation of the “silly” behaviors may indicate indicate a defect in this system, which could result in an increased susceptibility to peer pressure and “social contagion”, factors which predict many of the high-risk behaviors seen in sufferers of neurotypicality later in adolescence and adulthood.

For some reason the linked article is confused enough to think that *autism* is the horrible tragedy, not *allism,* but nthope explains the true tragedy of allism and the failures of their mental immune systems quite well.

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Vomit It Up Beige!!!

ineedamandahugandkiss:

Allism Speaks has the best interests of allistic children and parents at heart (even though we don’t have any allistic people on our board…funny about that, huh).

No child should have to hear the words “you have allism”. 

Science is helping us find a cure, or a way to eliminate allism from the gene pool.

Allistic people are awesome fun special crazy amazing unique beautiful!!!

The month of April is Allism Awareness Month!!! Yay for Allism!!!

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So I have a neurotypical brother (two, in fact)…

ineedamandahugandkiss:

And I’m just so damn sad, because they just don’t get things. Like how awesome stimming is. Or all the wonderfully sneaky ways to avoid eye contact. 

They’re both just so beautiful, and they both have a beautiful soul, but I really wish they’d stop being neurotypical. I wish there was no such thing as being neurotypical, like it would make my life so much easier, you know? 

(via flappingphysicist)

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Turn it DOWN Taupe!

karalianne:

allism-speaks:

disabilityculturalcenter:

allism-speaks:

Turn it DOWN Taupe! has a website now. Allism Speaks is turning it down taupe this April for allism awareness. Are YOU turning it down taupe?

Those more neurotypical children. Why can’t there just be a cure?!

Soon, with luck. The neurotypical epidemic might be down from 87 in 88 to 49 in 50, at least. It’s progress.

Do we know the true rate for neurotypicalism? Because remember, not all allistics are neurotypical. We don’t want to conflate numbers too much!

True, true, that’s the allism epidemic. CURE ALLISM NOW!

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Turn it DOWN Taupe!

disabilityculturalcenter:

allism-speaks:

Turn it DOWN Taupe! has a website now. Allism Speaks is turning it down taupe this April for allism awareness. Are YOU turning it down taupe?

Those more neurotypical children. Why can’t there just be a cure?!

Soon, with luck. The neurotypical epidemic might be down from 87 in 88 to 49 in 50, at least. It’s progress.

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So I have a neurotypical brother (two, in fact)…

ineedamandahugandkiss:

And I’m just so damn sad, because they just don’t get things. Like how awesome stimming is. Or all the wonderfully sneaky ways to avoid eye contact. 

They’re both just so beautiful, and they both have a beautiful soul, but I really wish they’d stop being neurotypical. I wish there was no such thing as being neurotypical, like it would make my life so much easier, you know? 

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My cat, toning it down taupe

toneitdowntaupe:

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Here’s my cat toning it down taupe. She got all in the spirit of things and got into a beige laundry basket even. The ribbon is actually paper and will not be ribbon no matter how hard it tries to be, which is symbolic of the plight of people lacking autism who are assholes, which will never be on the spectrum no matter how hard they insist it is. So sad.

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