Disclaimer & A Way to Make Autism Better

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A WAY TO MAKE AUTISM BETTER

On this page, the one word "autism" takes the place of the more complex "autism spectrum disorder" and its short form "ASD."

Like the wise men of old,
we have a child to find.

Schulze p 44

THE CHIEF OPERATION FOR MAKING AUTISM BETTER
Everyone in the family has to be or become a communicator with respect to deep feelings. The autistic boy or girl is the last person in the family to become a communicator. One becomes a communicator through deep-feeling contact. The operation of deep-feeling contact has to be done only once for each noncommunicative person in the family.

THE CHIEF PROCESS FOR MAKING AUTISM BETTER
Like all diseases of the mind and some diseases of the body, autism has, as its heart, the ongoing act of keeping one's conscious attention away from difficult deep feelings. After some time, this ongoing act becomes an automatic behavior (that is, a habit). This automatic behavior (namely, no conscious attention given to difficult deep feelings) is almost never questioned and is taken as a natural and normal part of living. For autism to get better, everyone's conscious attention has to be kept on deep feelings, mostly the difficult ones (such as pain) and sometimes the consoling ones (such as aloneness). This is hard work which has to go on all the time.

To Make Autism Better,
Put Together a "TEE"
or Tender Emotional Environment

Here are the three steps for putting together a "TEE" or Tender Emotional Environment:

• 1. Make everyone in the family into a communicator.
• 2. Keep everyone's conscious attention on deep feelings.
• 3. Make war on trances.

Step 1--The Base of the "TEE":
Make Everyone in the Family
into a Communicator

Here the unit of interest is the autistic person's family.

For our purposes here, the family is made up of

• 1. the autistic person himself or herself and
• 2. everyone who puts in a good amount of time living with the autistic person and
• 3. everyone who puts in a good amount of time working with the autistic person.

Everyone in the family has to be a communicator or has to become a communicator with respect to deep feelings. Why do we have to have all communicators and no noncommunicators around the autistic person? We never let noncommunicators come near the autistic person because they automatically put up a fight against deep feeling in themselves and in anyone nearby. And their automatic fight goes against our chief work, which is helping the autistic person get in touch with his or her deep feelings. With noncommunicators present, "emerging feeling states will be met with disgust, disdain, disinterest, alarm, hostility, withdrawal, exploitation and the like. . . ." This list of great words comes from Stolorow's book. (Stolorow et al pp 13-14)

Step 2--the Stem of the "TEE":
Keep Everyone's Conscious Attention
on Deep Feelings

Keeping your attention on deep feelings is hard work for a number of reasons:

• It's unpleasant. Difficult deep feelings are named difficult because they are unpleasant.
• It is probable that you have been covering up your deep feelings since you were a young boy or girl or since you were a baby. Years and years back, the cover-up became automatic and the feelings became unconscious. Now they have to be uncovered and have to be made conscious.
• You get no support from society. As a rule, our society does the opposite of working with deep feelings, that is, our society keeps you away from your deep feelings.
• You get no support from science. To my knowledge, there is no branch of science that gives a clear and complete account of deep feelings.

Step 3--the Top of the "TEE":
Make War on Trances

Trance is another name for hypnosis and, especially in autism, for self-hypnosis. At the heart of trance are three acts:

• 1. A narrowing of conscious attention.
• 2. A turning of conscious attention so that it is pointed almost completely inside the person.
• 3. Keeping conscious attention away from deep feelings, especially the difficult ones.

Please take note that sleep is not a necessary part of trance.

So a war on trances is made up of three acts:

• 1. Make the entranced person's conscious attention get wider.
• 2. Get the entranced person's conscious attention turned outside of him or her.
• 3. Keep the entranced person's conscious attention on his or her own deep feelings and on the deep feelings of other persons.

DANGER!
If you make war on trances before the autistic person becomes a communicator, then you are putting him or her through cruel and unnecessary punishment. The war on trances has to come after deep-feeling contact with the autistic person.

Making war on trances is likely to get the entranced person very angry. This anger has no value but does keep the trance going. Our purpose here is to get to the deep feeling that is being covered up by the trance and the anger.

Why Go to the Trouble
of Learning Deep Feelings?

What would make you do all the hard work of Learning Deep Feelings? Very simply, a broken heart.

And how does your heart get broken? By seeing that your bright and beautiful child, your own flesh and blood, the best of you, is lost and living in relentless terror and unspeakable horror from which the child gets some distance through trances that make the child "numb and dumb" and keep him or her from fully taking part in society.

When I get to the University, . . .

I will have to have help with four things:

• Access to six severely ill autistic children and their families.

  Every noncommunicative person in the family (as outlined above) has to make the agreement that he or she will undergo deep-feeling contact so that he or she becomes a communicator with respect to deep feelings. Deep-feeling contact with the autistic person will be done last, after all the other noncommunicative persons in the family have been contacted. That way, if a family member goes back on his or her word to undergo deep-feeling contact, then I will put an end to my work with the family, I will not make deep-feeling contact with the autistic child and the child will not be in danger from persons in the family who are unwilling to take part fully in the care of the autistic child. Certainly, the child's autism will be unchanged.

• Supervision of my work with autistic persons and their families.

  The University will have to have an expert, or group of experts, oversee my work with the autistic children and their families. My experience with autism is so limited that I have a need for guides and helpers every step of the way. All of my work with the autistic children and their families will be recorded on videotape.

• Approval from an ethics committee.

  Because deep-feeling contact with a person more than six weeks old is not a natural or normal event, my work is clearly experimental. From years of experience, I know what takes place after deep-feeling contact with men and women and with normal children. But I have no idea what might take place after deep-feeling contact with an autistic person. That makes deep-feeling contact with an autistic person an experiment, which has to be looked over and judged to have value by an ethics committee.

• Coverage for malpractice liability.

  I would have to be covered under the University's malpractice liability insurance. Because I will be doing an experimental operation, namely deep-feeling contact, private malpractice liability insurance would have a very high price, amounting to more money than I have.

A Question for the Past

Was Dr. Leo Kanner a native communicator with respect to deep emotion? Maybe so. His being a native communicator would explain the title of his seminal paper on autism, "Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact." If I could see a good many photographs of Dr. Kanner or, better yet, a movie of him, then I might be able figure out if he was a communicator or a noncommunicator.

A Question for the Present

Which is harder to make better, regular autism or Asperger's Disorder? At this time, it is my belief that Asperger's Disorder will be harder to make better. In Asperger's Disorder, the chief way to keep conscious attention away from deep feelings is thought. In regular autism, the chief way to keep conscious attention away from deep feelings is trance. To me, it is easier to put a stop to trance than to put a stop to thought. So it is likely that regular autism is made better more easily than Asperger's Disorder.

A Question for the Future

Will we be able to keep autism from taking place? In other words, will we be able to prevent autism? I am certain that prevention will be possible in the future. To put a stop to autism, a large group of persons would have to be trained in helping mothers to make deep-feeling contact with their babies in the first six weeks after birth. Then, shortly after birth, deep-feeling contact would prevent autism much like antibiotics (such as silver nitrate and penicillin) prevent gonorrheal eye infection.

List of Pages
	Contacting Jason			Medical Arguments Against My Theory of Autism
	A Feeling-Based Theory of Autism			Autism's Axioms: Less Is More
	Key Questions & Answers about Autism			Three Overviews of Learning Deep Feelings
	Sayings & Stories			Frequently Asked Questions
	Disclaimer & A Way to Make Autism Better			References & Citations
	The Genetics of Autism: Heredity or Heresy?			Curriculum Vitae