ShadeX wrote:
My analogy is that if Everyone is a computer. I'm a super computer with no mouse. Sure i can process everything ten times faster, but it takes me an hour to figure out how to empty the recycling bin, and i had to devolpe special simple software just to interact easily with other computers.
Mine is a computer-related one, too, incidentally, though I usually use it to describe my attention span, though I think I can relate it to autism as well. My mind is like a 12 gHz six core processor when everyone else is running a 4 gHz single core processor. A single core processor would only have one core responsible for all tasks. The six core processor, on the other hand, is made up of six 2 gHz processors, and, depending on the program, can run all 12 gHz at once or can only run 2 gHz at a time.
And in this example, of course, we're running a lot of old, inefficient programs here, because they are the ones society tells us to run (programs like smalltalk.exe, for example). The old programs don't use multithreading, so they are more efficient on the faster 4 gHz processors than on any of my 2 gHz processors. As a result, I experience longer load times in mundane tasks than the average person.
However, due to other programs I have that are actually designed for my hardware (some of which are preinstalled, others are self-developed synthesizations of other, less efficient software), I can complete many tasks at 1/3 the speed of everyone else. And of course, the more I code for myself, the more efficiently I can complete mundane tasks, as well. So while I am naturally bad at english.exe, I have developed a grammar patch for it that is derived from logic.exe and math.exe, both native programs to my system, and I have since excelled at language (especially when I can increase my virtual memory).
Anyone else experience life in this way? =/
Yes. Exactly.
I'm still writing the code for smalltalk.exe. Every time I try to launch the program my screen goes black and stops responding for a few seconds. It's kinda buggy.
Although, actually, I think of it the other way around. smalltalk.exe is a heavily multi-threaded application, and I have an overclocked single core. I use the analogy this way because having multiple cores means being able to multitask, which I have absolutely no ability to do whatsoever. But as long as I'm only focused on one thing (single threaded), I don't have any problems, and I'm often better at things than my NT counterparts.
26 May 2011, 9:09 pm
