My insights of over-compartmentalized autistic brains as an Autistic person.
I think it is consistent with me. A lot of things that is that is more than 2 stereotyped brain-lobes away works poorly. Hearing and Vision coordinate well and also Hearing and Touch and Touch and Vision. Motor Coordination and any of the senses don’t work well together except maybe vestibular sensations (My gross motor coordination sucks and my fine motor coordination is mediocre). Anything emotional doesn’t synchronize well – they want to dominate or are suppressed. If I get analytical, most low-level emotions cease (still there; just not getting any CPU or bandwidth). Also low-function and any higher-functions don’t communicate well, which is probably why i can get boners and feel sexual pleasure without it broadcasting through all the higher brain to say go flirt or go screw. Reasoning and motor work ok together, and motor and touch work pretty well together also. I can fly airplanes (unofficial never spent money to get lessons/license), scuba dive, and drive. I am week with processing multiple sensory sources at once though.? That handicaps my ability in sports far more than my ability to drive but it affects that but I seem to have developed work-arounds from years of riding a bicycle in traffic. Vestibular sense (motion), and peripheral vision are my fastest senses (primary vision is really slow) for interfacing with ‘intuitive processes’ or ‘primal functions’.
Though I may be auditory, it is strictly on processing of external sensory information, short-term memory, and rote memorization. I think I am fairly visual when just thinking without much sensory input. I do think, for internal thinking or on memories, but not for external live-sensory streams, that I coordinate visual and auditory (sound context not just spoken language) very well, but communication there is only 1 brain-lobe away (temporal->occipital). I know can’t form complex visualizations that well because there just isn’t enough bandwidth. I can visualize simple to moderate complexity objects without a backdrop or a scenic view visualized like somebody who needs glasses but doesn’t wear them very well. I know many sources (DIY tests, psychology teachers) say I am right brained, so I probably would excel in music pretty well because my dominant sense is auditory. But I also know I can only do music well from memory or reading off a sheet. I have little ability in synchronizing with an external source (banging drums in synch with a group without previous knowledge) though. I also know that listening to music blocks my ability to visualize unless it is in relation to the music, like synchronize waves and colors (I have control it is not uncontrolled) – with low detail and rounded-off accuracy but still correlated – with the music. I can visualize (including un-related things) well while playing a song internally in my head from memory though. I can’t do lightning calculator math with visual symbols or auditory beeps and blips. I excel overall in comparisons, relationships, non-linear problem solving, inter-networked recognition bits, and low long-term memory decay (once its been in there for days to weeks). The real-world Rain-Man mixes autistic memory and thought patters with a genuine full photographic memory that is independent but mutual with his autism.
I also think I am different when very drunk or very high. I adapt to slowing brain functions very well because things are already slow at least on sensory or when things have to dart from opposite ends of the brain. My drunk behavior is loud, nosey, and super-hyper-analytical. If being super-high on weed (marijuana) makes me feel spinning, it doesn’t affect my vision or balance. I just feel the spinning. One time I got so high that spinning made me throw up, but I cleaned up after it while still high!! Booze slows down the entire brain.? Weed (in light-moderate dosage) seems to supress the entire brain but then enhance right-brain visualization ability and general creativity.? Also the Dentist, when I had my wisdom teeth taken out, had to check my eyes to see if the Nitrous Oxide (N2O) was in my system because my behavior wasn’t being affected enough. N2O did nothing to make me less anxious and it actually affect very little of my higher functions, and it made me feel the needle 3 times in the same area of the tooth he was targeting (3 pricks really close to each other), but the nitrous oxide N2O certainly FEELS GOOD though (weed and booze do too). I guess it is from autism limiting communication between lower and higher brain functions (limbic system<-->cerebral cortex) and maybe also the over-compartmentalized other parts of the brain.
November 24th, 2006 at 8:52 am
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