Women describe relief at finally learning they have autism, a man with epilepsy narrates during stimulation of his brain, and the brain’s immune cells are caught on film nibbling at neuronal connections.
Many of the women speak of feeling like a stranger among their peers during childhood. They also describe first being misdiagnosed with conditions other than autism, such as borderline personality disorder, and often feeling more connected to their interests than to other people.
Despite saying that the stimulation was “so scary it was nauseating … so intense,” the man recovered quickly and went so far as to say, “I could do it again.”
But there’s a twist. As the brief video ends, we learn that she’s only been imagining the experience. She was so overwhelmed with anxiety about what she might encounter that she never even left her house.
He bases that claim on results of simulations that consider study design as a factor in the validity of the 0.05 cutoff. Ioannidis supports lowering the threshold to 0.005, a proposal he says has the support of a “large coalition” of 72 scientists who specialize in study methods.
How people will use the emojis is unpredictable, but Apple’s intent is to “better represent people with disabilities,” the proposal states. Adopters could use them to self-represent in online handles and other venues. Emojipedia says that if Unicode approves the submission, the emojis should be available in the first half of 2019.
About one-third of people with autism also have epilepsy. A rapid way to detect silent seizures could be a boon for people on the spectrum who find long electroencephalograms and multiple appointments difficult to navigate.
