Cognitive Dysfunction is a State of Mind

I don't know any parent who is okay with hearing that their child has a cognitive dysfunction - cognitive meaning relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity (as in thinking, reasoning, or remembering).  It's not the reason why you have children, so that they can have and you can deal with a cognitive dysfunction.  It is not what you hope for and envision. In fact, it's the opposite.

According to the trained professionals who work with our children at school, they both have a cognitive dysfunction.  It is based on their lack of awareness for the recent past and near future, especially Elena.  Apparently, it stems from their condition   And it is a cause for concern.

It's true.  It's an accurate diagnosis.  It is who they are and what they do at this point in their lives

But, is it really a cognitive dysfunction?  Technically, medically, yes, it is.  If one accepts the standard definition and  parameters of the meaning of "cognitive," which really means based on or capable of being reduced to empirical factual knowledge.  Within those parameters of factual knowledge is an ultra-harsh reality imposed upon you and your child by the Establishment, the entity that says this is reality as we define it and how it will be.  Beyond those parameters, beyond the Establishment, lies hope.  When living with autism, one learns to move beyond the parameters of the Establishment.  When living with autism, one moves into the parameters of Hope.  And hope, like faith, is beyond the empirical.

So, in the parameters of the Establishment version of reality they struggle with the empirical facts of the past and the potentialities of an unknown future, and suffer from a cognitive dysfunction.  In the parameters of Hope, they care not about the concept of past and future because it is of little importance, as they are about existing in the present, being in the Now, and living in the moment.  In the parameters of Hope they do not suffer from a cognitive dysfunction.  On the contrary, they are advanced beings.

I read, I research, and I gather and assess a wide variety of philosophical and spiritual works and esoteric knowledge.  Living in the NOW, being in the moment, experiencing life in its immediacy is the way of the Buddha, the path towards Nirvana, which is the way to Oneness with Creation, towards universal consciousness which is an ascension of this third dimensional existence.  In that aspect, they are the embodiment of their I Am presence, which is divinity manifest on this earthly plain.  They are not on a path towards enlightenment.  They are enlightenment.  The Kingdom of God is within them.

Still, with one foot in this reality, they have to know and understand the recent past and near future.  It's a safety issue, especially if they injure themselves or have a harmful experience.  They have to be able to explain "what happened."  Similar concerns with understanding the future, "what will happen if..." and "what to do if..." are major issues to understand in our society as it is today, as we are very past and future oriented.  So, I get it.  I, and their teachers and therapists, will teach them to get it, too, so they won't have to struggle as they live out their lives on this limited, empirically-driven third dimensional existence.

However; I often wonder, is it they who are struggling with a cognitive dysfunction or is it we that are suffering through a type of cognitive dissonance from knowing, inherently, that what is most important is the present moment while continuing to foolishly cling to a nostalgic past that we rewrite in our minds to suit our present circumstances in the hopes that our future plans based on our  revisionist past will come to fruition when deep down we truly do not know what the future will be?

Are they hoping we can move our minds, our souls, into existing in the Now, in the present, just like they do?  

Are they politely waiting for the rest of us to evolve to their level?

Are they here to teach us, rather than us being here to teach them?

Why pretend to know the future when nobody can and why hold onto a past that we cannot change?  It's a lot of wasted energy we might be better served putting towards experiencing the moment. Yet it is what we do. 

Would they diagnose us with a Dysfunction of Consciousness, with a Dysfunction of Truth?

Would they care to even diagnose us at all?

I am not convinced they are suffering.  When left alone, they're very happy.  I am more convinced that we are suffering because we are failing in our need to make their lives more like ours, rather than make ours more like theirs.  And that's a cognitive dysfunction of the highest order.

Imagine a life lived where all that mattered was in the beautiful moment you are experiencing.

Imagine all the people, living for today...

Dysfunction is a state of mind. 

So, what's the state of your mind?