Grey-haired but not old-fashioned. Passionate about autistic thinking. Love to interpret things out of context...
Most people still see the brain as a stimulus-response machine: stimuli in the outside world enter via the senses our brain where they are being processed, so we can react to them. However, this is not how it works. It takes around 200 milliseconds for signals hitting your retina to reach your conscious brain. That … More Your current experience is what your brain predicted 80 milliseconds ago
Na de positieve recensie door Tistje, is er opnieuw een leuke recensie van het verhalenboek dat ik samen met Cas Raaijmakers schreef, deze keer in het tijdschrift van Autisme Centraal: Onder eenzelfde noemer als ‘autismespectrumstoornis’ gaan zeer veel verschillen schuil. Dat kan niet genoeg benadrukt worden. Als een boek zes verschillende verhalen bundelt van twee … More Onder één noemer: zes verhalen over autisme
Very frequently, effort is focused on teaching autistic and other neurodivergent people to figure out what other people are thinking and feeling. For instance, we show them pictures of faces and ask them to identify how someone feels. Training their Theory of Mind may have a certain benefit, but shouldn’t we rather start helping them to understand their own mental and … More Theory of Own Mind, interoception and managing your own emotions
Tennis, the predictive mind and autism … More Tennis, the predictive mind and autism
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On the evening of Thursday 12th March I was about to check in at my hotel in Rotterdam when I got a message that the big autism conference of the next day (Friday 13th, how symbolic…) where I was supposed to speak was cancelled. My world and the world of many other people suddenly came … More What I’ve learned from a crazy year 2020
Is autism a disability? I often get this question. In this blog post I give a shirt answer. … More Is autism a disability?
Happiness is something that individuals — both those with and those without autism spectrum disorder — strive to obtain. It is innate for all human beings to want joy and meaning in their lives. Happiness does not mean a life without problems since no life is exempt from challenges and difficulties. Happiness comes from accepting … More Autism and happiness: a new article
The main task of the human brain is to predict what will happen to us, so it can tell the rest of our body what to do to survive. Therefore, our brains crave predictability. The brain hates uncertainty because in moments of uncertainty the brain cannot do its job properly: protecting us and taking care … More Coping with uncertainty in times of Corona
