AUTISM MEANS 40% MORE BRAIN ACTIVITY AT REST. My mother, my grandmother, teacher

http://scienceblog.com/70048/study-shows-autistic-brains-create-more-information-at-rest/YES. AUTISM MEANS 40% MORE BRAIN ACTIVITY AT REST.

My mother, my grandmother, teachers, everyone would say “just relax and rest your mind”.

I would say “um… I can’t shut it off. Ever.” It was so exasperating. I thought adults were incredibly stupid, with insipid advice.

The only way to keep the machine happy is to work it to death. It’d drive me to exhaustion (and has) if I didn’t feed it something to work on.

The internal world is like an enormous magnet that ONLY SOCIAL CONTACT is a counter.

I love people. They’re anchors to reality.

I wonder what it’s like for totally autistic people – they can never get out… ever. I have a lot of trouble getting in and out (Something my mother, Allora and Amanda were masters of.)

But you can view fate as gift or curse. I can manage it most of the time, so I consider it a gift.