Fabian Kenneth J
Med Hypotheses. 2005;65(4):694-8. doi: 10.1016/j.mehy.2005.04.039.
The heart of autism is existence by oneself. It is being, talking and acting by oneself. Talking by oneself is not talking to oneself but talking at others. Its purpose is not exchanging or hearing words. Its purpose is sending words to another person. If being completely by themselves is autistics' experience of their existence, then they may have no need for language. And there is no language development in about half of all autistics. For autistics who do have language, if they are mostly sending out words and are only sometimes exchanging or hearing words, then another person's language has little or no effect on them. Without language from outside persons as a guide, autistics' language becomes strange and free from the normal body motions (gestures) that come with language. So strange language and uncommon body motions with that language are two of autism's chief signs. Autistics are unnerved by change. So they keep their behaviors in a narrow range and do them over and over with no connection to other persons' purposes. A narrow range of behaviors done over and over for no seeming purpose is another chief sign of autism. Because young boys and girls get to being, talking and acting by themselves when they come down with autism, they no longer seem to have any idea of what is going on between themselves and other persons. So when boys and girls get autism, they frequently do or say strange and surprising things with other persons. The knowledge of what to do and say with other persons comes as abstractions. This paper's one hypothesis is that autistic persons have no abstractions because the development of their deep feelings has not gone far enough to let abstractions come into existence. By acting or talking without the support of abstractions, autistic persons have a hard time with language, learning, living and loving in relation to other persons or to society. Autism comes from stopping the development of a baby's deep feelings within the first six months after birth. The development of deep feelings may be started again by a special operation named deep-feeling contact. (Body-to-body touching is never necessary for making deep-feeling contact.) As the development of his or her deep feelings goes forward, the autistic person's abstractions come into existence. Then language, learning, living and loving become much simpler for him or her.
自闭症的核心是自我存在。即独自存在、独自交谈和独自行动。独自交谈并非是与自己对话，而是对着他人说话。其目的不是交流或倾听话语，而是向他人传递话语。如果完全独处是自闭症患者对自身存在的体验，那么他们可能不需要语言。而且大约一半的自闭症患者没有语言发展。对于有语言能力的自闭症患者而言，如果他们大多是在发出话语，只是偶尔交流或倾听话语，那么他人的语言对他们几乎没有影响。没有外界他人的语言作为引导，自闭症患者的语言会变得奇怪，且脱离了伴随语言而来的正常身体动作（手势）。所以奇怪的语言以及与该语言相伴的不寻常身体动作是自闭症的两大主要特征。自闭症患者会因变化而不安。所以他们将行为局限在狭小范围内，并反复进行这些行为，且与他人的目的毫无关联。反复进行一系列看似无目的的狭隘行为是自闭症的另一主要特征。因为患有自闭症的男孩和女孩开始独自存在、独自交谈和独自行动，他们似乎不再明白自己与他人之间发生了什么。所以当男孩和女孩患上自闭症时，他们在与他人相处时经常会做出或说出奇怪惊人的事情。与他人相处时知道该做什么和说什么是通过抽象概念习得的。本文的一个假设是，自闭症患者没有抽象概念，因为他们深层情感的发展程度还不足以产生抽象概念。由于在没有抽象概念支持的情况下行动或交谈，自闭症患者在与他人或社会的语言交流、学习、生活和情感方面都存在困难。自闭症源于婴儿出生后头六个月内其深层情感发展的停滞。一种名为深层情感接触的特殊操作可能会重新启动深层情感的发展。（进行深层情感接触时并不一定需要身体接触。）随着其深层情感的发展，自闭症患者的抽象概念开始形成。然后，对他或她来说，语言、学习、生活和情感都会变得更加简单。
