Pros And Cons Of Autistic Brain

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Did you know that the autistic brain is very smart and can think differently than other brains? For example Temple Grandin, she invented a human squeeze machine which she made to control herself when she would get anxious. She also wrote a book and in that book we read a chapter called “From the Margins to the Mainstream,” in The Autistic Brain. It talks about many different features the autistic brain. For that reason the central idea is that the autistic brain can sometimes not react in the same way as our brains. I chose that central idea is because in page 175 Gradins said something that got my attention which is “ The Idea of plasticity in the brain ----that your brain can create new connections throughout your whole life, not just in childhood----is still quite new, and like so many ideas about the brain, we owe our neurodiversity.” What this quote is saying is that the autistic brain is able to make connections through what it goes which seems like the autistic brain has pros and not just cons. The pros are that they can think in very creative ways to make something such as Grinding which made a squeeze machine that no one ever thought about. A con is probably that they can get very anxious and have problems communicating which is why …show more content…
So what it is a video game with no image and only audio. What the layers have to do is find earphones using the audio, I know this because in page 177 it say “It works like a videogame. Players have to navigate through a building in a search for diamonds. But the games doesn't use images. It uses sounds.” This shows that researchers want to know more about how the autistic brain works with only using audio. They want to do this to know how the autistic brain functions with no images which I think is a very good idea because maybe they do better with no images than rather with

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