My 18 year old brother has ASD, and is non-verbal. For the past year, he's had a period roughly every 2-3 weeks of extreme symptoms, such as hyperactivity, aggressiveness, lack of coordination, and insomnia. We and doctors have attributed it to puberty, as outside of these periods he is extremely calm and not hyperactive (albeit OCD when it comes to positioning objects, annoying for us but not really a major issue). In fact at certain times he starts to have better than average mental faculties, and starts looking for new activities to do or new phrases to say
I know someone who works for an agency for a sector which faces purely people with various conditions, mental and physical. She says that a strong majority of clients who have a family member with ASD report their worst periods all at the same time, roughly following a period during the full moon. As I post this, yesterday the moon was at its strongest, a blue moon even, and my brother's symptoms were at their peak.
I strongly believe that there is a correlation. It can't be a coincidence that all of these people, including my brother, are having similar symptoms at the same time roughly around the same monthly period. Of different ethnic backgrounds, in different locations, and different ages.
I also believe that it may not be moonlight; his room is not located facing the moon, and during these times we can't even give him a bath or help him dress, let alone take him outside. But I can't say the same for the others.
This is a bit of speculation on my end, but it would be interesting to see studies with individuals who have heightened behaviors during the full moon, how they act at various elevations, or even off planet (we're slowly getting to the point where that's feasible for more people). It will be interesting to see, if like asbestos or lead plumbing, this will be something that will take a lot of time for people to understand the full picture, maybe until we are able to live off Earth. Or possibly it's relative to each planet.
My gut intuition is that, if my brother exhibits his worse symptoms in sync with the full moon, and best times during the new moon, then to be closer to the moon would worsen his symptoms severely and to be further would improve him, since moving the moon is not really a factor here, and it seems like moonlight or seeing the moon directly are not a factor. I lean in the camp that this is a gravity effect like the earth's tides. After all, the brain's roughly 75% water.
Perhaps the word lunacy has merit after all.
I know someone who works for an agency for a sector which faces purely people with various conditions, mental and physical. She says that a strong majority of clients who have a family member with ASD report their worst periods all at the same time, roughly following a period during the full moon. As I post this, yesterday the moon was at its strongest, a blue moon even, and my brother's symptoms were at their peak.
I strongly believe that there is a correlation. It can't be a coincidence that all of these people, including my brother, are having similar symptoms at the same time roughly around the same monthly period. Of different ethnic backgrounds, in different locations, and different ages.
I also believe that it may not be moonlight; his room is not located facing the moon, and during these times we can't even give him a bath or help him dress, let alone take him outside. But I can't say the same for the others.
This is a bit of speculation on my end, but it would be interesting to see studies with individuals who have heightened behaviors during the full moon, how they act at various elevations, or even off planet (we're slowly getting to the point where that's feasible for more people). It will be interesting to see, if like asbestos or lead plumbing, this will be something that will take a lot of time for people to understand the full picture, maybe until we are able to live off Earth. Or possibly it's relative to each planet.
My gut intuition is that, if my brother exhibits his worse symptoms in sync with the full moon, and best times during the new moon, then to be closer to the moon would worsen his symptoms severely and to be further would improve him, since moving the moon is not really a factor here, and it seems like moonlight or seeing the moon directly are not a factor. I lean in the camp that this is a gravity effect like the earth's tides. After all, the brain's roughly 75% water.
Perhaps the word lunacy has merit after all.
