10:42pm January 22, 2012

“Some individuals hold up one or both arms and may continue to do this for long periods if left alone. if verbal prompting to lower the arms does not work, physical assistance may be needed.”

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Amitta Shah and Lorna Wing, “Psychological Approaches to Chronic Catatonia-like Deterioration in Autism Spectrum Disorders”

This is one of many “holy shit holy shit holy shit” moments in reading these papers to give to my doctor tomorrow. I just made a post on this two weeks ago and the answer was sitting under my bed the whole time.

But what really gets me, reading this stuff, is that I’m absolutely typical for someone with autistic catatonia, in most ways. That shouldn’t surprise me but I get so very much shit from people for having these traits (since they’re not what people expect in autistic people even though this paper says 17% of us seem to experience it) that I feel less normal than I am.

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“Some individuals hold up one or both arms and may continue to do this for long periods if left alone. if verbal prompting to lower the arms does not work, physical assistance may be needed.”