Sreenath Jagannathan
Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, USA
Title: Mindfulness, Meditation, and Yoga’s impact on significantly reducing lifelong suffering of those born with autism along with society not misunderstanding intent due to latently unprocessed mental health comorbidities
Biography
Biography: Sreenath Jagannathan
Abstract
How do we define normal neurologic processing of understanding human society’s values on how respect and success is earned or lost? What do people with autism have that causes them to be viewed very differently to the point people harshly punishingly judge their intentions in behavioral responsibility? A first-hand lifelong account with undiagnosed Asperger’s Syndrome until medical school reveals many deficiencies in institutional systems in how autism is viewed as a disability. Even experienced medical, behavioral, and mental health care professional provider systems do not understand why autism is a disability that cannot be compared with any other disability or disorder. People with autism have varying degrees of disability along with ability. Autism is a difficult diagnosis to understand because neurodevelopmental cognitive programing differences do not cause people to be intentionally bad or not wanting respect to be earned based off of strict rules by society. Mindblindness means a person is very limited in learning behavior/cognitive functioning values through observation. It is complicated to decipher warning signs that one is very limited in being able to understand normal human social-emotional intent plus expectations for conversational contexts other than the fact that people with autism rely on factual written logical structure to understand why unspoken social rules exist. Outside of a school classroom setting where social interactions are structured, real-life social interactions regarding friendship rules being different than parents, authority, and work are severely debilitating because there is no logic as so to why unspoken rules based off of observation exist. Observations do not provide the basis for why rules “logically exist or don’t exist”. Mental health is undertreated and underdiagnosed in people with autism because it is a struggle to identify internal pathological processing neurotypicals are observationally able to mindfully identify and then not act upon them. Yoga, Mindfulness, and Meditation must be a part of identifying and diagnosing mental health along with classification of how “severely someone is suffering because of autism”. Autism can be relatively negligbly causing suffering in one structured social setting, but is extremely noticeable in high stress people social relationship workplaces such group team work business jobs, customer service industries, and most importantly “first responder security social service industries” such as military, police, mental health, and patient-care institutional school/work settings