Autism: Experiment reveals scientists and engineers are more

[JimC]

...if you remember where and who you are at all times.

Quite tricky, that...

Especially for me in the 70s...

[Jason]

...if you remember where and who you are at all times.

Quite tricky, that...

Especially for me in the 70s...

I hear you. It's why I've had to give up mary jane. Still not pleased about that.

[JimC]

I had to give it up because it was triggering a mild form of epilepsy, like feeling an electric shock in the brain...

[Jason]

Ouch. My older half-sister has epilepsy and under went some form of 'brain therapy'.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Ouch. My older half-sister has epilepsy and under went some form of 'brain therapy'.

My brother's wife had it for years but they found a new drug that worked. She hasn't had a fit for over 10 years.

[JimC]

And I haven't had one since I bid farewell to Mary Jane...

[Jason]

That's the idea of the exercise, at least why I do it, to realize how differently I can and sometimes do see the world from the average person and instead of denying that learning to use it in parallel to normative processing. I hear tell this kind of thing is common in the less 'functional' forms of autism. I think Tero's bird-watching/drawing program is brilliant precisely because it seems to operate on the same principle, plus the people who can do that are just brilliant imo.