Fragmentation: do you relate to this concept?

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Thanks for the information, XSara.

I'm glad to see that autistic cognition is receiving scientific study; but it's clear from the source articles that "more research is needed."

Personally, I've always been very smart in objective terms, but patchy in terms of actual performance. I failed to qualify after training in a call center because I just could not wrap my head around one process; meanwhile other people sailed through.

And it embarrasses me to admit it, but I frequently do process the appearance of a new person by fragments (what color is their shirt? do they have bushy eyebrows?) which results in me not being very good at recognizing them.

I still don't understand what it means even after reading the posts in this thread.

Then read the articles.

I for one don't believe an NT person looks at a room any differently from an autistic person really.

Visual processing involves a great deal of memory work. When you "see" something, you are not getting a lot of new data through the pipe. A familiar scene can appear completely from memory. My friend has always turned at the same corner, and a store there was slowly falling to ruin. However, when it was burned, he heard the news, but passed it several times before deliberately focussing on the remains to re-program his head. It had still looked the same to his "peripheral vision."
When Columbus arrived in the West Indies, people couldn't even see his ships in previously empty bays. The white strangers were a total mystery until a Shaman worked very hard with his eyes.

I don't tend to remember things in a room, after I leave the room. Except for things which were really prominent in the room.

If you take a test to become a police officer, you have to remember EVERYTHING that was in the room presented in the test, after you go onto the page after the "room."

^^ Why limit to vision/sight?

Where's the rest of the senses?

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I do relate but I always thought it was because I think slow. Given enough time, I see everything, I even see more than others and I see the meaning of things better that most.

seems like a generalized description of many forms of sensory processing struggles. If my senses only process bits and pieces of any experience, how else would my perception be expressed but as the bits and pieces or fragments that do get through my neurology to register in my brain or become lodged in my memory. Because I hear or see something does not mean that all of it will be registered as information in my mind. A great deal of it gets lost in transit. "short term memory" is not really memory at all if the info never hits the registry . I have almost perfect recall of anything I read, but very poor recall of things seen or heard in 'real time".