Autism and Perception

Sensory trauma is discussed below, uncensored and in detail.

I am still working on this page!

Empathy and Theory of Mind

I define these concepts in the context of communication with other people on the autistic conversation page.

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Types of sensory experiences

- A list of environmental sensory stuff, basically

Vision - sensing color, visual clutter, movement, emptiness

Texture - *maybe link to aside about food issues? or separate section?

Sound - music/melodies, voices, pitches (relative and perfect) and harmonies, consistency/repetition, mechanical noises, drawn-out noises (air con, wind, humming), silence

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Alexithymia

Under this category: emotion (happiness, sadness, fear, anger, nostalgia, surprise, disappointment...), love *is love an emotion? and care, sense of responsibility, beliefs, sub- and unconscious, mental pain/distress, overwhelm, gender identity, romantic attraction, theory of mind, logic

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Interoception

Under this category: hunger, thirst, bathroom needs, physical pain, sexual attraction, *concentration - or under alexithymia?

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Proprioception

Under this category: coordination, depth perception, knowledge of force used and required, dropping things,

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Stimming

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What am I feeling?

Listening to body; understanding relationship between physical symptoms of mental state

Guide: inside-to-outside detection. starting with factors inside your body, then on your body, then near your body, then far away from your body - like scanning

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