Abstract & Overview
The author is a neuropsychologist who describes in detail how his autism was induced by trauma suffered at the age of six, how his enquiring mind led him to the discovery of the neurophysiological cause of autism, how he developed a litmus test to know for certain if someone suspected of being autistic has been correctly diagnosed, and how his lifelong autism has recently been reversed by an unexpected traumatic event. Definition and Description of AutismDefinition: Autism is perpetual and unrelenting hyperfocus, the state of intense single-minded concentration fixated on one thing at a time, to the exclusion of everything else, including one's own feelings.The probable cause of hyperfocus is a dysfunctional Cingulate Gyrus (CG), that part of the brain which focuses attention [3].Description: Autism is an inherent neurophysiological difference in how the brain processes information.Autistic people live in a specialized inner space that is entirely intellectual, free from emotional and social distractions.They tend to observe the world in scholarly detail without feeling any emotional attachment to what they see [3]. Litmus Test for AutismHyperfocus is the unique and defining causal state of autism that creates all of its documented traits.Hyperfocus prevents someone from dividing attention between two thought patterns or two stimuli at the same time.An autistic person talking to you is incapable of feeling any emotion in that moment.The easiest way to find out if someone is autistic is to ask these five questions, to which you will receive the following responses [3-5].Example of an intellectual answer: "No, I'm not angry.That wouldn't be logical."Anyone who answers all five questions as above is autistic.Anyone who answers four or fewer as above is not autistic.Note: If the person answers the third question with a phobia (e.g., of heights), then re-ask the question this way, "Aside from this phobia, do you normally experience fear of any kind?"