Connection between AS & "Mild" CP (Part II ?????)
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 @3:27:34 PM
Today, was rather quiet for me in the morning, staying home, while Nate took Dad up to Derry, to have his "other" eye operated on. Now both operations are done, to "improve" his vision, as a 76 year-old severe Insulin-dependent Diabetic.
I am doing ok. This afternoon, after running errands for Nate & Dad, after they arrived back home, I went 1st to the Post Office here in Salem, NH to renew my own PO Box until next September. I let Nate use it as a business address for his Nature/Landscape photographic sales.
I then drove up to the Mall of New Hampshire on South Willow Street in Manchester. Nate wanted a box-set of Season #2 of the Western, "Deadwood" on DVD. For myself, I purchased the 2nd 1/2 of the "Eureka Seven" Japanese Anime Series. @ the Mall, using my Loftstrand Crutches, I "really had stamina", & did not become "physically pooped", being on my feet, & walking > 300+ yards, "all over the shopping mall". I was "feeling really happy", that my "Autistic Toeing-In Crouch Waddle Gait", which is "normal for me", as an Asperger's/Autism adult, was "less of a hinderance". My heel tendons, did @ times, "go spastic", & for periods of times, I was "totally" uncontrollably "Toe-Walking", but my Loftstrand Crutches, were "truly helping me" as an Asperger's/Autistic, to ambulate & move, faster & more confidently than I ever have been, in the last 3 decades, since reaching my full adult body size.
I am convinced, that there might be a link, between "MIld" Cerebral Palsy, which usually presents itself as "autonomic" "Toe-Walking", with other deficits of balance & coordinating one's body in 3-dimensional space, & Asperger's Syndrome, which has many of the exact identical sensory-motor "clinical presentation".
I did do a "reflex test" on my lower limbs, & my "knee jerk reflex" is "normal", yet I have always as an adult, the last 30+ years, this "toeing-in waddling walking gait". which was really always present in childhood, which was "dealt with", by Mom especially, by "punishments", for my "naturally being this way", & not understanding that what was going on, was neurological, in the way my autistic brain's Cerebellum, which "integrates" all the sensorymotor sensory inputs, & muscle actuations, really does not "multitask" very well. The Cerebellum has the task, of "processing" all the sensory inputs, from the lower body, & from the Visual System in the Cerebral Cortex, & from the Auditory/Vestibular System, & the way our Aspe brains are "wired", we have sensorymotor "processing delays", like an Intel Pentuim MPU, that has to "service" each "Hardware Interrupt Request", "one @ a time", in "real time", & because we Aspies have congenital "abnormal" neuroprocessing "delays", our ability to "multitask", is not just with trying to do too many things @ once, but our brains, can only concentrate on only one single sensory or neuromuscular "microtask" @ 1 time.
The typical Aspies & "Mild" Cerebral Palsy children & adults, can "almost pass for normal", but are seen as "utterly clumsy", @ sports, fine-motor assembly tasks, handwriting, & well, "walk & or run - very oddly".
I am really "no exception to this", as I have really "proven it to myself", simply up on my own, a week ago, "blowing" $120.00 out of my savings account, from my previous SSDI "Disability" Cheque over @ the Charon's Medical Supply Store in Downtown Nashua, NH, on a "pair" of "adult" Loftstrand Crutches.
Am I "pretending" to be disabled" - "NO WAY!!!!!"
I am not one of "those" BIID (Bodily Integrity Image Disorder) people, who up & try stuff like "taking a chain-saw", & hacking off one or more of their arms or legs, or try to "ram a knife between their llumbar vertabrae, or "gouge out their own eyes", to "cripple themselves", so others, will "feel sorry for them".
Well, anyway, have I been "clear", as to my own "discovery findings for myself on this issue?
Would welcome any feedback on this latest blog entry.
