Reframe Your Thinking Around Autism: How the Polyvagal Theory and Brain Plasticity Help Us Make Sense of Autism By Holly Bridges

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Outlining a new, optimistic way to understand autism, this concise and accessible book offers practical ideas to help children on the spectrum grow.The Polyvagal Theory suggests autism is a learnt response by the body - a result of the child being in a prolonged state of 'fight or flight' while their nervous system is still developing. This book explains the theory in simple terms and incorporates recent developments in brain plasticity research (the capacity of the brain to change throughout life) to give parents and professionals the tools to strengthen the child's brain-body connection and lessen the social and emotional impact of autism.

At this time of writing, The Ebook Reframe Your Thinking Around Autism: How the Polyvagal Theory and Brain Plasticity Help Us Make Sense of Autism has garnered 8 customer reviews with rating of 5 out of 5 stars. Not a bad score at all as if you round it off, it’s actually a perfect TEN already. From the looks of that rating, we can say the Ebook is Good TO READ!

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I am shocked to see these positive reviews, because it is rare that a book on a serious and scientific subject is so poorly researched and substantiated and contains so many a priori assumptions. I really hardly know where to start.We can start with the claim that we believe that autism is in the brain because, as humans, we have a need to believe we are cleverer than any other animal. But "...autists are generally really smart. They might not be able to communicate this to you [...] but they are still in there, thinking, creating and designing with their wonderful brains. So if it's not the brain..." (Bridges, pg. 17). Unpacking that a bit, because autists think (whatever that means - it isn't defined, as no term is defined in the book), autism cannot be "in the brain."Bridges goes so far as to claim that "Some people like to look in the brain for answers. But they haven't found any. Others like to look to genetics for the reasons why people have it. But they haven't found any. Autism has everyone stumped" (Bridges 14). Except this is not true. It denies the existence of a rich body of research that have found a great deal. None of it is accounted for. None of it shows up in the "bibliography" - an embarrassingly modest affair for a book that makes such sweeping claims. It includes a few autobiographies from autistics, two articles by Porges, some information on Rolfing.Really, there is almost nothing in the bibliography that is directly related to autism research, and certainly not the works you would expect to see at least listed when making grand claims about the fight or flight response (Bessel van der Kolk, for example), or theory of mind (Baron-Cohen etc.) The entire thesis posits that autism is simply a traumatic response (without ever actually calling it this). Predictably, not one work on trauma is referenced. No mention of Peter Levine, Stephen Shore, Onno van der Hart, etc. etc. etc. Bridges does not even demonstrate that she is familiar with these works, which is something that a writer should do if making these kinds of bold claims, regardless how "conversational" the tone. The book appears to be essentially a rehashing of two articles by Stephen Porges, who, inexplicably, has written an introduction to this book.Aside from completely unsubstantiated claims as to the "science" of autism (references are inserted as non sequitur quotes at the beginning of chapters with no reference to the work being cited), Bridges claims as to the autistic experience is angering and demeaning. This is an allistic individual making claims about the experience of all autistics, and let us be clear here, even actually autistic individuals would be hesitant to make a generalization with the claim that it applies to all autistics. Autism is a spectrum disorder and each individual on that spectrum has a unique set of abilities and challenges.Imagine my surprise then when I read that, as an autistic, I am unable to regulate my visceral state in the presence of others! Or that I grew up separated from my body and am a "bright person" but "imprisoned" in this useless autistic body. I have no idea where she is getting these generalizations, but if you are an allistic and you want to make claims about the autistic experience, you need to bring substantiation. It is unforgivable that someone would claim to speak for the autistic experience who is not autistic, and who cannot point to a direct testimony by an autistic person to that effect. A testimony that would be one person's experience.This is the kind of damaging work that is exploiting the autistic community and the parents of autistic children. It contributes nothing to the body of research, it contributes nothing to the actual treatment of autistics. At best, this is an ill-advised attempt to contribute to a field that Bridges cares about, and I certainly hope that is the case. At worst, works of this caliber (and they are not rare in the, as yet, ill-formed field of research into autism), is a cynical exploitation of the vulnerable communities at stake in an effort to churn out a very poorly researched thesis to sell a book. I hope that this does not apply in this case.The oft repeated praise of the book, that it is "easy", is about the only positive that I can see to it. If you are going to make the claim to have found the one smoking gun that underpins ALL of the myriad challenges of autism, you have an ethical obligation to being evidence, to define the terms you use, to demonstrate that you know the current state of research, and to have some authentic professional claim to the expertise you assert. Make it readable, by all means, but if the quality of your argument and the paucity of your evidence of research is in this poor a state, it doesn't rise to these minimum requirements.

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