My autism has as a complex distinct sociolinguistic reality with its own language. Casting my autism as singularly a deficit in social terms is incorrect.
•Language takes many formats- talking, gestures, signs, instinctive behaviors, body language.-We must understand that different avenues of communication exist in autism, aside from verbal means. Animals and organisms also communicate nonverbally. Historically, many forms of language exist in the biological world... For example, Bacteria understand chemical signals, which help dictate their relative identity and group dynamic. Particularly in bioluminecense, marine bacteria form quorum sensing, this is a sensory channel of communication. Intelligent creatures can communicate in collective fashion also. A colony of ants are able to release hydrocarbons on their bodies. These hydrocarbons can determine identity of members of a common colony. Ants use frequency of contact to these hydrocarbons to behave, form nests, and work together.
•In nonspeaking autism, stims are avenue to express our accounting of our geophysical and sensory state. We are constantly observing and tallying environmental cues, because our sensory system is chaotic and we sometimes second-guess our perception. In a collective way, many people with autism can understand each other without using words, because they have an intuitive grasp of subconscious environmental sensory cues at a microlevel. The sensory movement perspective in neuroscience is a field currently being studied that examines this type of "language."
•Because our cognition results from open processing of sensory phenomenon, their sensory markers characterize our language base. Sound, light, color, temperature, pressure, and geophysical awareness of our bodies are the objects described, or semantic forms, in the autism language. Semantic forms are the linguistic factors that form meaning of our words.
•Our "frames" of language and mental maps are different. In the field of psycholinguistics, "frames" are conceptual structures that provide understanding of our beliefs, practices, and experience.
•Language takes many formats- talking, gestures, signs, instinctive behaviors, body language.-We must understand that different avenues of communication exist in autism, aside from verbal means. Animals and organisms also communicate nonverbally. Historically, many forms of language exist in the biological world... For example, Bacteria understand chemical signals, which help dictate their relative identity and group dynamic. Particularly in bioluminecense, marine bacteria form quorum sensing, this is a sensory channel of communication. Intelligent creatures can communicate in collective fashion also. A colony of ants are able to release hydrocarbons on their bodies. These hydrocarbons can determine identity of members of a common colony. Ants use frequency of contact to these hydrocarbons to behave, form nests, and work together.
•In nonspeaking autism, stims are avenue to express our accounting of our geophysical and sensory state. We are constantly observing and tallying environmental cues, because our sensory system is chaotic and we sometimes second-guess our perception. In a collective way, many people with autism can understand each other without using words, because they have an intuitive grasp of subconscious environmental sensory cues at a microlevel. The sensory movement perspective in neuroscience is a field currently being studied that examines this type of "language."
•Because our cognition results from open processing of sensory phenomenon, their sensory markers characterize our language base. Sound, light, color, temperature, pressure, and geophysical awareness of our bodies are the objects described, or semantic forms, in the autism language. Semantic forms are the linguistic factors that form meaning of our words.
•Our "frames" of language and mental maps are different. In the field of psycholinguistics, "frames" are conceptual structures that provide understanding of our beliefs, practices, and experience.