Hi Helen! Thank you and I am so happy this piqued your interest. I have been quietly reading your work for the last couple years and so it is wonderful to get to connect with you.

It is heartbreaking to see how medical science and autistic lived experience has been pushed aside and made way for fear-based messaging. There is a complex interplay between the immune system, stress biology and sensory procesing but vaccines are not the problem.

Yes!! Autism is fundamentally a difference in how salient (important and interesting) information engages with the attentional networks and interests systems.

Yes! It is a difference in how processing resources are distributed. The autistic mind naturally attributes more resources to important and interesting experiences. This deepens processing in some areas, but leaves less resources for others. The theory of monotropism.

Thank you Fergus!