Fruit Salad

Paul's Autism Fruit Salad Updated 2016

Expressive Agnosias

• • Alexithymia (this is an emotional perception disorder resulting in difficulties knowing one's own emotional states)

• Social Emotional Agnosia (Due to receptive and expressive aphasia and visual perceptional disorders)

Receptive/Expressive Language & Movement Issues (Speech & Communication)

• Aphasia (receptive and expressive types with the sub-type of expressive non-fluent and receptive which would be a global anomic aphasia)

  • Speech Delay (milestone delay in development)

  • Language Delay (milestone delay in development)

  • Speech Apraxia (Verbal Dyspraxia) (effected the articulation of my speech once functional speech was acquired)

  • Selective Mutism - (once functional speech was acquired)

  • Tic Disorder

  • Globus Pharyngis (acquired when I was 8 years old - it was called a "nervous throat" by the practitioner I saw)

Echophenomena

• • Echolalia (echoing speech)

  • Echopraxia (echoing movement)

  • Echomimia (echoing facial expressions)

  • Palilalia (echoing my own words)

Visual Agnosias

• Semantic Agnosia (Meaning Blindness) (not recognising visual stimuli such as object, people or places by visuals alone need to use movement, tactile stimuli such as touching rubbing, sniffing, tapping for example)

• Simultagnosia (Object Blindness) (not "seeing" the visual field as a "whole" but in bits causing context blindness)

• Prosopagnosia (Face Blindness) (not "seeing" faces as a "whole" needs other cues such as the movement of the body and voice patterns to understand the who the person is)

• Visual - Verbal Agnosia (reading text "without meaning" for example once functional speech was acquired I could read streams of text but on a "surface level" much like written echolalia)

• Colour Agnosia (Recognise red with "meaning" this means that I can see comparisons in hue and contrast but sometimes struggle to name other colours)

• Mirror Agnosia

• Form Agnosia (not "seeing the whole in relation to overall context)

Auditory Agnosias/Aphasia

• • Pure Auditory Agnosia (not perceiving auditory environmental sounds with "meaning")

• Language Auditory Agnosia (Meaning Deafness)

• Tonal Agnosia (Atonia) (related to the language processing disorders and "hearing tone" but not processing words)

• Aphasia

Body Disconnection

• • Pain Agnosia (not perceiving pain or trauma that has been inflicted on the body this relates to self-injurious behaviors that I displayed in my teenage years)

• Visualspatial Dysgnosia (Body Blindness) (not perceiving my body firstly as a "whole" and understanding the "whereness" of my body in the environment it is in)

  • Finger Agnosia (Digit Blindness) (not perceiving my own fingers as a child this effected my motor coordination, lack of pointing and also my hand-writing in later years)

Dissociative Disorders - Recognised in 2012/Revised 2014

• Derealisation

• Depersonalisation

• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

• Dissociative Disorder Nos (DDnos)

Mental Health

• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

• Exposure Anxiety

• Mood Disorder

• Somatisation Disorder

  • Schizotypal Personality Disorder (During late 2000s)

  • Borderline Personality Disorder (During late 2000s)

Learning Difficulties

• Dyslexia

• Dyscalculia

• Dysgraphia

Auto-Immune

• Candida Albicans

Other

• • Bruxism - Teeth Gnashing

  • Genetics - Developmental Agnosias

Syndromes - Which make up a large part of my "Fruit Salad"

• Gertsmann Syndrome - Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, Finger Agnosia, Left-Right Disorientation & Aphasia.

• Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome/ Light Sensitivity/Sensory Integration Disorder - Light Sensitive Depth Perception, Headaches, Fatigue - Associated with Dyslexia, Dyscalculia and Dysgraphia, Visual Fragmentation.

• Premie Syndrome - Jaundice, Cerebral Hypoxia (lack of oxygen to brain), Silent Stoke, Brain Injury & Hemiplegia (Left Hemisphere) Auditory Agnosias, Aphasia, Visual Agnosias, Pain Agnosia, Colour Agnosia, Echolalia, Echopraxia, Echoomimia, Speech & Language Delay and other issues such as Oral Apraxia & Visuospatial Dysgnosia & Form Agnosia)

• Middle Cerebral Artery Syndrome (Aphasias, Agnosias, Ataxia) – Related to Brain Injury

• Multiple Complex Developmental Disorder (MCDD) - Depression, Anxiety, Dissociative Issues, Sleep Disorder, Synesthesia, Tic Disorder.

• Genetics - Developmental Agnosias - Alexithymia, Social Emotional Agnosia, Dyslexia, Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome.

Information on Agnosias

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