Jingo8 wrote:
I find i am in my own world and don't care what is going on around me, and yet i'm constantly keeping track of it and at times get distracted by it? Does that make sense to anyone?
If i hear my name mentioned i can come out of what i'm doing, check who's speaking and already know what they've been talking about and why my name was mentioned.
From another point of view, i can be fully aware of people around me and their conversations yet completely jump out of my skin when someone stands next to me and asks me something.
It doesn't seem to make sence. The closest i get to explaining is it that becuase i don't actually *care* about the things going on, my hard drive is recording it but my processor (which is very single core, i don't multi task at all well) isn't using any resource on it, then when a code word is recognised (my name for example), it's shocked into quickly switching it's workload, checking the hard disk for relevent info and processing an appropriate reaction.
And i have a feeling that was a horribly aspie explaination, and possibly not really the desired direction of the thread.
This is a pretty good description of how I am in such circumstances.