Autism Beyond Rumor: A Science-Based Response from an Autistic Researcher Claim 1 — RFK’s expertise • Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a lawyer by training (BA, JD, LLM). He has no medical degree, no formal scientific training in epidemiology, neurology, or autism research. :contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0} Claim 2 — Vaccines and autism • Large reviews by the CDC and WHO conclude there is no credible evidence linking vaccines (including MMR and thimerosal-containing vaccines) to autism. :contentReference[oaicite:1]{index=1} Claim 3 — “Tylenol = autism” rumor • Recent reporting describes plans to promote a Tylenol–autism link but presents no supporting evidence; similar claims have been rejected in court previously. :contentReference[oaicite:2]{index=2} What autism actually is (science + lived reality) • Monotropism: Autistic cognition often features deep, interest-focused attention that can drive creativity and expertise. :contentReference[oaicite:3]{index=3} • Interoception/sensory differences: Autistic people frequently show distinctive patterns of body-signal awareness and sensory processing that shape emotion, regulation, and learning. :contentReference[oaicite:4]{index=4} Ontology of substance (why the deficit story fails) • Physics shows “empty space” isn’t empty: fields carry energy; radiowaves propagate through the EM field; quantum systems can be entangled across distance. These are measurable, physical structures—not “nothing.” (See standard QM/QFT and field-theory texts.) • In this ontology, autism is not a defect to be blamed on medicines. It is a valid mode of human cognition—a neurocognitive equilibrium characterized by rhythmic regulation, sensory depth, and powerful pattern recognition (monotropism + interoception), which many autistic people report and the literature supports. :contentReference[oaicite:5]{index=5} Summary • RFK offers zero medical/scientific credentials and zero evidence to overturn established findings on vaccines and autism. :contentReference[oaicite:6]{index=6}

Ontology as the Paradigm of Life: From Physics to Consciousness By Kenneth Parrott Abstract If radiowaves, plasma, and entanglement demonstrate that energy is substance, then this ontology must extend beyond physics into biology, cognition, and self-awareness. This paper develops a framework where structured energy in flow underlies life itself. Music, speech, thought, and consciousness are modeled as recursive patterns of substance, expressed through vibration, resonance, and entanglement. The conclusion is that life and mind are not exceptions to physical law but its highest recursion: energy becoming aware of its own structured flow. 1. Introduction The misnomers of “vacuum” and “dark matter” are resolved by recognizing them as labels for unseen structure—substance that exists whether measured or not. This ontology does not end at the physical scale. Life itself emerges when flows of energy organize recursively into self-regulating systems. Consciousness arises when those systems perceive their own recursion. This is the paradigm of life: substance as flow, recursion as law, awareness as emergent recognition. 2. From Energy to Pattern 2.1 Music as Structured Vibration Music arises from oscillations of air, strings, or membranes. Rhythm regulates time, harmony balances frequency, and melody expresses recursion across scales. Music is the purest expression of energy as patterned flow. 2.2 Speech as Structured Sound Speech builds on the same principle: vibration structured by the vocal tract into phonemes, syllables, and words. Meaning emerges from nested recursion—sounds combine into symbols, symbols into syntax, syntax into thought. Language is a fractal lattice of vibration made symbolic. 2.3 Thought as Structured Flow Neural activity is electrical and ionic flow. Oscillations across brain networks create patterns that repeat and recombine. Thought is the recursion of flows into coherent form—equation-in-equation. 3. Consciousness as Recursive Recognition

Autismal Being: Integrating Lived Experience and Scientific Evidence in Autism as Neurocognitive Equilibrium By Kenneth Parrott Abstract Autism has traditionally been framed as a disorder characterized by deficits in communication, social interaction, and executive functioning. Recent shifts in neuroscience and neurodiversity scholarship challenge this deficit-based model, emphasizing strengths in pattern recognition, sensory processing, and focused cognition. Drawing on first-person lived experience and interdisciplinary research, this paper introduces the concept of Autimal Being: a neurocognitive equilibrium that manifests as fractal perception, monotropic focus, and rhythmic interoception/exteroception. This framework integrates autobiographical narrative with empirical findings in autism research, sensory neuroscience, and dynamical systems theory. Rather than deficit, Autimal Being reflects a mode of human genius with evolutionary, cultural, and creative significance. 1. Introduction Autism spectrum conditions are commonly situated within medicalized frameworks (APA, 2013). However, neurodiversity scholarship (Singer, 1999; Kapp et al., 2013) has reframed autism as part of natural human variation. This paper extends that reframing through the lens of lived experience: the author’s late-life unmasking at age 57 revealed heightened rhythmic stimming, sensory awareness, and fractal pattern recognition. These experiences form the basis for theorizing autism not as dysfunction, but as Autimal Being, a state of neurocognitive equilibrium that integrates stimulation and regulation, detail and depth, focus and flow. 2. Lived Experience as Data Autoethnographic evidence provides valuable insight into autistic cognition (Davidson, 2007; Chamak et al., 2008). The author’s transformation included: - Rhythmic stimming: repetitive body movements producing balance and flow. - Enhanced interoception and exteroception: heightened awareness of bodily states and environmental stimuli.

Epigenetic Pattern Recognition: A Multifaceted Survival Flow Author: Kenneth Parrott Abstract Pattern recognition is often understood as a cognitive process of the brain, but evidence suggests it is also encoded biologically through epigenetics. Traumatic or survival-linked encounters leave sensory imprints that can be inherited, priming offspring to recognize danger without direct experience. This paper reflects on vision, scent, and sound as vectors of epigenetic pattern recognition, framing them within a fractal and recursive survival flow. 1. Introduction Survival depends on recognizing patterns of danger and safety. Traditionally, this is attributed to learning and memory within one lifetime. However, epigenetic studies suggest that recognition itself can be transferred across generations. Epigenetics operates as a sensory archive — storing patterns in molecular form and expressing them when similar stimuli are encountered. This mechanism creates an inherited awareness, a multifaceted pattern-recognition system. 2. Vision: Recognition of Form and Motion Lions demonstrate inherited caution when encountering venomous snakes. Even without direct experience, their hesitation reveals an embedded recognition of serpentine movement as danger. Vision becomes an epigenetic vector — motion patterns encoded across generations, allowing immediate recognition of threat. 3. Scent: Olfactory Imprints as Survival Keys Dias & Ressler (2014) demonstrated that mice conditioned to fear the scent of cherry blossoms passed this aversion to their offspring. The olfactory receptor gene was epigenetically tuned, priming the next generation to react as though danger were already known. Scent molecules, with their unique vibrational signatures, become biological keys that unlock inherited memories of risk. 4. Sound: Acoustic Triggers of Vigilance Dogs often fear thunder, but beyond conditioning, repeated acoustic trauma could imprint epigenetic markers that heighten startle responses. Loud, sudden sounds activate the amygdala and stress pathways; if this becomes chronic in a lineage, sensitivity may be transmitted. Sound patterns — thunder, hisses, or crashes — act as auditory vectors of inherited recognition.

Research Brief: Rhythm, Speech, and the Emergence of Consciousness This paper proposes that rhythm is the foundation of human cognition, speech, and consciousness. Petroglyphs, chants, and songlines reveal how early humans preserved truths through simplicity of flow and deep pattern recognition. Chant bridged rhythm into proto-speech, binding memory to cadence and enabling knowledge to endure for tens of thousands of years. Aboriginal oral traditions, such as accounts of the Budj Bim eruption (~37,000 years ago) and post-Ice Age sea-level rise, confirm this continuity and stand as living proof of rhythm’s role in truth preservation. Neuroscience supports this progression: rhythm stimulates the right temporal lobe for pattern recognition and the frontal cortex for timing, reasoning, and decision-making. Chant synchronizes hemispheres and binds interoception (internal awareness of heartbeat and breath) with exteroception (external awareness of sound, light, and movement). This coupling provides the anchor for reflective self-awareness. Thus, consciousness emerges not from abstraction alone, but through the natural flow of rhythm into chant, into speech, into story. Aboriginal traditions demonstrate that this pathway remains unbroken, offering compelling evidence that humanity’s deepest truths — and its consciousness — are rooted in rhythm and flow.