What is Autism: Restricted and Repetitive Behaviors

In this episode, we discuss criteria B from the DSM-5-TR. Criteria B are known as Restricted and Repetitive Behaviors. In addition, we discuss how criteria B implicates criteria A, or the social communication and interaction aspects of Autism.

Projections https://www.amazon.com/Projections-Story-Human-Emotions/dp/B08LDWC2L6/ref=sr_1_4?crid=1GPPI5ZOFM2OS&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.nkY0ZQ0_m001QwcD7GiPwEwRdZitzaWU2NDjvRw_-xiCyiXLlyVfEZSzmonDa2coKQXiPSas9JLw1NeXBBjVh-I5pYHXvMVnLvB9vFwniO7QRoSLMGL3Idst8j8oqskuyPjy1UlNxZR23U_Ch22UJLU033T0wsMJNyZE6FcDepX8XAZAlXqeWXAHRXYD6jhVQLF771sNzRg3o_tKPJBoDr7GF0TWaaX5Nl7Mynmvvc4.Yfa8m249WY_xvl2E3TGObX7BoDhrJ_nU9R8d0ezWL34&dib_tag=se&keywords=projections&qid=1711134807&sprefix=projections%2Caps%2C100&sr=8-4

Peter Attia and Karl Deisseroth https://youtu.be/4oiKOX2lCmE?si=Ru7W7cPpDDxtE8Qr

Future Treatment possibilities https://youtu.be/eeySrgKev2g?si=IbX5h6qG5ddBPeO5

Leo Kanner https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1943-03624-001

Meet My Autistic Brain Episode https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/meet-my-autistic-brain/id1548001224?i=1000629007371

APA's DSM-5-TR https://www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/practice/dsm

(But don't get hitch on this book)

Time Scales

Introduction (0:00)

A Brief History (1:29)

Similar Disorders (or Phenomena) (2:25)

Levels of Autism; Criteria A and B; Superpowers and Superdeficits (5:16)

Criteria B; B1 Stereotyped or Repetitive Motor Movements, Use of Objects, or Speech; Stimming; Echolalia Example (9:40)

B2 Insistence on Sameness, Inflexible Adherence to Routines, or Ritualized Patterns of Verbal or Non-Verbal Behavior; Rigid Thinking Patterns and Gray Areas cause Problems; BEE MOVIE example (16:24)

B3 Highly Restricted, Fixated Interests that are "Abnormal" in Intensity or Focus; Find your Interests and Superpowers and Do That; Vietnam War; Memorization, Accelerated Learning and Personal Example (22:37)

B4 Hyper or Hyperactivity to Sensory Input or Unusual Interests in Sensory Aspects of the Environment; Complications with Eye-Contact and Keeping Up; Sensory Processing Phenomena; Visualization and the Eyes (32:47)