Very interesting article on Caetextia and Asperger's

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Throw Away The Master's Tools... is a very good article. Thank you the link.

I just heard back from Tallyman. I don't know if this will become a sticky because the site owner requested that no more stickies be added since there are too many but perhaps we can generate enough talk on this thread to keep it on the fist page at least.

Michael Fitzgerald? I don't know it seems kind of pseudo-sciency to me.

Can you explain what you mean by pseudo sciency?

Connecting autism with creativity and civilization - there is just no proof. I think creativity, curiosity and a yearning to understand the world around you is completely human. The rest is suspect, I'll await further studies.

Also how can they connect caetextia with so many varying problems that affect a wide-range of people?

I see what you are saying. I agree with the what you say about creativity and curiosity and yearning to understand being completely human. That is quite true.

But I fine this Caetextia theory interesting none the less and I am glad to learn about it. And I think that further studies would certainly be a good thing.

VERY GOOD CONTENT

watch the video on VIMEO also~~~VERY GOOD

many thanks skibum for this link

You are most welcome. Thanks to my husband for finding it and sharing it with me!

They do get a little annoying when there's too many of them. Maybe we can request a new forum for the really good stuff that we want to be able to find again. Call the new forum a Library or Reference Room or something like that. Or does it already exist?

I don't think so. The inventors of the truly major breakthroughs (wheel, fire) would have to have been indifferent or oblivious to authority, conventional wisdom and public opinion, which would allow brain storming, the hyper focus on problems and solutions, and the enjoyment of the solution just because it's cool. Most humans have a knee-jerk rejection of anything new and radically different, and normally don't see the benefit until they see it being used by someone they trust and respect. It's like they need permission to step out of the box, and will usually drag you down if you are not of sufficient rank to think independently.

The reference library forum is a great idea. There are other threads that I have wanted to revisit and share with people that I can't find anymore even using the search.

I think that the creativity part is human and common to every one but the extreme cases that are pure genius are much more than the the common creativity that almost everyone has. There is a big difference between the two.

My problem isn't context blindness so much as seeing the DIFFERENCES between different situations and missing the similarities.
I don't miss the context; it's just that as far as I'm concerned every situation is a new situation, thus the rules from older situations won't necessarily apply.

Frankly, all I think the article is saying is that the hemispheres of our brains tend to do their own thing. Which makes sense, since I'm always shifting back and forth between my mind and the world, a shift which takes much effort.

As for autistic people contributing to civilization, I frankly think it's obvious that we have. It's part of our condition to enjoy systematization and problem-solving. One of the strengths of being on the spectrum is the way we retreat to our own little worlds and use our minds and imagination to come up with new insights. (That doesn't mean that NTs don't advance civilization. Far from it. Mozart may have had Asperger's, but Bach didn't, and he was music incarnate.)

That would be a great idea for this forum: a reference library whose substance could be directly quoted onto threads.

See here, in response to the thread you created asking about that:
http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt255376.html

Thank you Cornflake. That's very cool. And Thank you Tahitii for the great idea.

The article did help me understand how I could be so good at helping other people figure out why someone did something to them or reacted a certain way, or I should say in figuring out ALL the different possible reasons why, but am so horrible at figuring out people in real time. Sitting with a friend, listening to a story about what happened to them and thinking about it logically is out of context of the actual event. Also explains how I was able to understand fiction, be a very good interpreter of literature, and get a bachelor's degree in English literature.