Not a deficit configuration of an otherwise neurotypical system. A different distribution of bandwidth across the same architecture, with its own strengths and its own vulnerabilities.
Not a deficit configuration of an otherwise neurotypical system. A different distribution of bandwidth across the same architecture, with its own strengths and its own vulnerabilities.
A mother trying sign language with her severely autistic child discovers that the new protocol reaches what years of spoken language could not. The case is not about sign language specifically — it is about what happens when you communicate on the layer the system is actually running on.
ABA works to install conscious-mind-layer programs. Where it harms, it harms by systematically suppressing the IL and somatic processing the autistic system runs on. The autistic-adult community has been describing exactly what the architecture would predict.