…the real good news is that, 7 days after the original (2nd) injury, it’s good. Feeling near normal this morning! Yay! That’s one monster medical bill I won’t be having! Not to mention having a functional knee!
Managed to trip and jolt knee last night and half the night had knee pain
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Autism & Asperger’s linked to too many neuron connections, lack of pruning. This does make sense to me. It’s easier to see in Aspies.
Science Daily “reprint” of Columbia University press notice.
That’s very interesting. Jane and I used to skate with an autistic fellow, about 18, thereabouts—he was amazing in how fast he could learn: slow start, then an amazing ability to remember a sequence of small moves that produce big moves that scared the daylights out of us. You get out there in the middle of a big ice sheet, and it’s just more white and fewer things to grab for security than most would like—but he’d learn step by step from his instructor, increase the pace, then wow! He’d be doing it at speed out there, for a beginner. His concentration was amazing. Ice skating is the ability to remember bunches of tiny details about balance and position and then things speed up. Considerably. Me, I’d get my feet right and my hands would be ‘off’, or I’d have those right and I’d move too soon. He’d just be right, and rarely made a mistake.
I have (had) a very good memory. That depends on the hippocampus IIRC to “set” the memory, but it also takes a lot of “connections”. These days the hippocampus is getting tired.
But it also speaks to ASD people getting overwhelmed by sensory inputs.
I think they’ve got the best theory going.
I could certainly see that. Interesting time to be alive—to see how many mysteries science is unraveling; and they may be onto this one.
Still not a clue to why the neuron pruning doesn’t happen. As an old Chem major, I’m of the opinion we’re letting too many synthetic molecules loose without a clue what their long term effects might be, nor the gumption to require testing. “Oh, don’t make me do that! It’s too expensive. I can’t make a profitable business and new jobs if you make me do that!”
I’m sure it’s been done, but there’s a pretty good cautionary tale about pristine environmental reservations being necessary to breed “natural”, (unepigeneticized?) humans there.