Resulting in stress in autistic people...

For one thing, which way is the dynamic going when it is in an in-between state?

I’ve spoken of the relative difficulty of keeping a seesaw balanced in relationships - this requires ongoing negotiation of meaning with the partner. But how do you negotiate with a threatening sky, the “edge” of a headache, or a half-ripe piece of fruit?

And there must be great numbers of other situations with built-in uncertainty and ambiguity...

Not sure how this statement fares in light of the quantum-physics view of things, as in “What the Bleep Do We Know!?”. The “twilight zones” are of - what - possibilities, which then snap into actuality when attention is paid to them? Maybe we autistic folks’ problem here is that some of the stuff just doesn’t seem to “resolve”, no matter how much attention we pay to it. Besides, it could well be that autistic folks’ zones of possibility are larger than others’; that there isn’t the preselection ("subconscious attention"?) which limits possibilities for neurotypicals. And what about “unconscious attention”? - would this cause “actual thoughts” to loom up into our awareness unmediated by the subconscious?

Last revised: June 17, 2007
(c)2007 Dave Spicer
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