The Role of The ANS In Autism

Why An understanding of how the Autonomic Nervous System operates is essential to the understanding of autism.
 
Our ANS shapes our experience of life, but it also shaped entirely by our experience. 
 
In individuals with autism, one traumatic event - or one experience interpreted traumatically,  gets over-generalized into an overall neural pattern of high alert. And this ANS pattern can alter how they perceive events, people and experiences for the rest of their life. Kind of like what happens to the victims of PTSD.
 
When Meg was a teenager she slipped on the ice into a frozen lake. This one slip has caused her to become deathly afraid of walking on any snow or ice anywhere, anytime.
 
Meaghan's fear of slipping is akin to her fear of losing her voice. It matters not that these fears might be unfounded or seem excessive to us. What matters is that her nervous system perceives them not only as very real but also as very threatening. And because of this, it directs her body to behave in certain ways; ways that she has no control over with her mind.
 
"My body will not listen to my mind."
 
This is a common refrain typed or voiced by most people with autism. What they are trying to express is that their intentions do not match up with their actions because they cannot calm their body enough to reach a place where they can think and act without fear or agitation.
 
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