ASYNCHRONY and the Challenge of FLOW

The Complicated Array of Physical, Social, Cognitive and Emotional Abilities and Challenges of the ASYNCHRONOUS Person  ---

Mean BIG STRENGTHS and BIG WEAKNESSES are the NORM --- NOT THE EXCEPTION.

Conjecture

It takes a lot of ENERGY to UNDERSTAND the IDIOSYNCRATIC ASYNCHRONOUS PERSON --

• EVEN FOR THAT PERSON --- much less anyone else.

 

• One of the reasons it is TAKING SO LONG is we tend to DEFAULT to the PERSON is either ACROSS THE BOARD BELOW AVERAGE or ACROSS THE BOARD ABOVE AVERAGE ---
  • Both are DANGEROUS DEFAULTS.

 
I would say that some of these BIG STRENGTHS are the result of greater DEVELOPMENTAL SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATION that is leading to SENSORY PROCESSING that is putting more DEMANDS on the person.


One of the places you see the DEMANDS is EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING.

• Was Executive Functioning damaged by excessive Developmental Inflammation?
• Are the Executive Functioning challenges the result of greater damands of Sensory Processing?
• Both? It's Individual?
• I don't know -- BUT ---
  • Developmental Systemic Inflammation
  • Sensory Processing Differences
  • Executive Functioning Challenges and
  • Some BIG STRENGTHS
  • often go together.

 

• There is a lot of SHARED COMMONALITY of INTEREST in getting ASYNCHRONOUS PEOPLE in their STRENGTHS.
  • It doesn't ELIMINATE EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING CHALLENGES --
    • But it is generally going to REDUCE THEM. 

 

• "FLOW" is the state that most people are trying to reach that is a BALANCE of their individual STRENGTHS and WEAKNESSES.
  • You can see how hard this would be for the ASYNCHRONOUS PERSON and EVERYONE ELSE to do with the LIGHTS OFF or IN IGNORANCE.

 

• Beyond some IDEALIZED STATE OF FLOW ---
  • It can be excruciatingly and dangerously difficult for the ASYNCHRONOUS person to stay within HOMEOSTASIS.

 

•  This requires an INDIVIDUALIZED APPROACH for:
  • Families
  • Education and
  • Employment

 

• CATEGORIES can be a helpful JUMPING OFF POINT --- but it's just the beginning.
  • Generally, we're talking about SHARED GENES across NEURO-DEVELOPMENTAL and PSYCHIATRIC CATEGORIES, and
    
  • IDIOSYNCRATIC MATERNAL IMMUNE ACTIVATION and AFTER-ACQUIRED INFLAMMATION.

 

• So ONE-SIZE is not going to fit all in the FAMILY, EDUCATION or EMPLOYMENT.

Gifted 101
Asynchrony in the Gifted

At 2:30:  "This definition really points out how our gifted children NEED, NEED, NEED MODIFICATIONS.

"They can't just be left alone with that MYTH that they will be fine on their own.

No, they NEED THESE MODIFICATIONS to develop optimally."

I would submit that ASYNCHRONOUS ADULTS need MODIFICATIONS as well to function optimally -- and sometimes just to function.

Strength-Based Approach

Go With the Flow

Shared Genes & Psychiatric Disorders

Employment Index

University College London (UCL)

T Cell Homeostasis Why It Is Important To Understand

"Characterising the mechanisms of T cell homeostasis is important for understanding how the immune system functions normally and how dysfunction results in disease."

Research at University College London on T-Cell Homeostasis could be relevant for Neuro-Developmental and Psychiatric Disorders that are now being recognized to have a large IMMUNE SYSTEM COMPONENT.