I forgive you for not taking the reference lightly, because, as I understand it, you work in mental health.
I do think it is a kind of disgust. At flesh.
I was once in one of my several run ins with mental institutions, and a doctor, a supposed eminence in autism, was walking an autistic boy out of his office.
The boy started getting a flesh overdose and, because he was autistic, wasn’t very politique about pulling away. The idiot fucking retard eminence then proceeds to crowd him and put his arms on his shoulders. Now the kid, of course not making any eye contact and looking anywhere but at flesh and looking generally crazy to a supposed eminence who is really a idiot layman, is on the verge of break down. Now the nurses, encouraged by the eminence, come in to “help the boy calm down” by further crowding and making physical contact. The disgust overpowers the boy and he goes into full breakdown. Now the “calming touch” is unabashed forcefull restraint.
Not about the flesh disgust, but about how the morons handled what you labeled as such.
You’re trying to make me talk about it when you already know very well. Why?
No, this is you talking about yourself before the days of trauma-informed care & crisis prevention de-escalation, isn’t it? Would you believe there are still people who have yet to catch up? No doubt you are fully aware.
The symptoms can be triggered—for example sensory overload requires passing a certain threshold. The Autism, no, depending on how you define trigger. It’s not exactly ex nihilo.
But I’m wondering whether the gene will go that way for sure, or if some people have “the gene” but they don’t become autistic.
There is, of course, the added philosophical layer that if something is genetic, you are likely to be born in a situation that triggers the gene etc.
Whatever the case, it would happen in early childhood. But I can’t say I’m convinced that it doesn’t get triggered. It’s too convenient. Specially if you look at the autistic personality and ask: what could have triggered it?
There definitely an over cross and it has been diagnosed as schyzotypal autism. It is a very complex ‘illness’ and some experts call it a potential breakdown scenario, but more hopeful in the know put it in a ‘breakthrough’ category. So dissensions abound.
The patient really has to be patient about it, nevertheless.
You don’t have autism or schizophrenia. You have a combination of a cold mother and too many gene-modifying experimental vaccines & TB tests all at once in your youth.
Just in case anyone mistook me, that was intentionally … misguided…. by a passion you can appreciate.
This has been resolved since Kant (well… I mean… earlier) but folks don’t know how to listen. Ain’t gonna be any different now.
“Schizoid personality disorder.” It’s not schizophrenia, though psychotic breaks become possible. Maybe the schizoid’s actual version of sensory overload.
I agree with Meno, though, they are related. A pinch of this and a hint of that.
Otherwise, you are not too far off. Also though not on target.
All humans are capable of some kind of overload, the reaction to which will be determined by evolution (genes) and evolution (details about the overload).
All disorders are a product of trauma. Freud is still the greatest to ever do it because he was not a coward. More that even than how right he was, though also he was right about more than most.