Measuring Latent Inhibition?

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It's not always that separate though. My conceptual thinking is influenced by sensory processing.

Yeah, I also believe the difference between certain subtypes of aspergers and certain subtypes of schizophrenia is negligibly small because hippocampal deformities are implicated in both disorders and their symptoms are highly similar between certain subtypes. That's why I personally think of it as a "Schizo-Autistic Spectrum".

You cannot develop ADHD, unless you are in a car accident. The only way you can develop ADHD is from severe brain trauma, otherwise like autism you're born with it or the genes get turned on when you're an infant.

Schizophrenia can be developed in the early adult years.

Look at it this way, each human brain is incredibly diverse and is continually being shaped by our experiences. It's foolish to try and peg one reason for a disorder that is made up of a cocktail of symptoms.
I mean I can process things slowly one day and speedily the next. And this is without my medication. My medication has shown me just how each symptom can be the polar opposite of another one, so this LI thing doesn't apply to me.

sarcastic much?

Yeah, this all makes sense. I can't just ignore everything but the one part that fits into someone's theory and then say "oh, that makes sense" because the rest of it is still there and I don't want to discuss something that is inaccurate or untrue.

I was reading the other thread but got distracted by taking a bath. I am pretty sure this thread's question is not really relevant to autism, though.

swbluto -

are you trying to figure out if you have asperger's or are you just enjoying flexing your mental muscles?

apparently there are tests for latent inhibition, but i couldn't find any free ones on the web.

i really don't think latent inhibition is related to asperger's, except maybe that my low latent inhibition tends to moderate my asperger's symptoms.

i write stories and songs. i am always relating things to each other.

this creativity allows me to imagine how another person might feel if someone makes fun of them, for example. things that don't come naturally, like small talk, can be figured out tangentially. no one had to tell me not to stare. i was staring at someone who glared back at me and i got the message.

swbluto has left the building.

He's probably gone to bed or something. Sometimes he comes back to his threads like this, sometimes I think he loses interest.

All in all, my ToM is telling me that sw is on his hunt of gathering statistical information on everything-- from the "schizo" posts to autism. He hasn't found that sweet spot of focus yet. The epiphany is still outstanding.

One thing that strikes me as odd, (as ruling out ADD exclusively) is the fantasy type schizotypal slip that he's experienced. It has an onset. It has a start or beginning to it. It has developed over time. This is what triggers the 'deep concern', I believe. This development it would seem, exclude autism, though: it could be a developing co-morbid. It seems he has good social reciprocity in real life, and intuits body language well enough, eye contact is normal or not forced. -- I just don't get the autism vibe, here.

He's on to something, because by default, ADHD just doesn't do 'it.' When I found Inattentive ADD--Boom! I was right.

I'd take a good psychologist to delineate all this.

I got a hunch that between work, this has occupied a significant amount of his time.

What is associative learning? Is it when you randomly hear/see something and you link it to some other random facts in your head?

i guess i'm dense. i can usually figure out acronyms, but what is ToM?

None of my latents are inhibited.

ruveyn

Theory of Mind

thanks, tuttle. i was thinking turn of mind, thoughts on the matter, but they didn't fit perfectly. wow, Theory of Mind, how weighty!

*re-enters building*

I am, but not this time.

Here's information on common underlying genes present in both schizohpenia and autism:
http://www.disabled-world.com/health/ne ... a-link.php

Here's a blog post on the neurological similarities:

http://brainposts.blogspot.com/2010/09/ ... utism.html

From the post is this very clarifying image:



Also, I have a combination of work, school and sleep interfering with my forum posting free-time. I'm only replying now because I'm waiting for Ubuntu to install so I can complete my CS assignment.