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10 Dec 2011, 3:06 pm

WELCOME TO MY WORLD.

This is totally me.

I would say this is a major contributor to my social issues, as well. I don't think that I'm awkward, really, but due to this I have serious trouble understanding the WORDS coming out of people's mouths.

DO YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING?

http://www.suite101.com/pages/article_o ... orld/96694



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10 Dec 2011, 6:17 pm

How I describe myself is lack of filters, but in my case instead of not being able to understand voices well because of what others thinking of background noise is equivalently relevant, but I parse all the noise, including all the conversations (until it gets to complete overload, shutdown point).

It's normal for me to be in a room parsing all 6 or 7 conversations in a room at the same time, and not being able to shut that down even if I don't want to hear people calling the group I'm associated with bad names or the people talking incredibly misogyonistically.



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10 Dec 2011, 11:37 pm

Great article. I never heard the term gestalt perception before but that is a perfect explanation of what I experience. I just realized why I have so much trouble getting rid of things I don't need anymore, I get used to seeing those things in a particular place and moving them disrupts my environment.

I fake my way through a lot of conversations because I don't understand half the words people are saying. I hate asking people to repeat themselves because I usually just want to hurry the conversation along anyway.



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11 Dec 2011, 1:22 am

Exactly me.
That's why I don't like crowded or group situations. there is too much going on to track simultaneously.
I think that's also part of the reason I don't like classroom lectures, there is too much activity in a classroom to give the instructor adequate attention.

I am constantly noticing small details that most people completely overlook.

I have found though that this can apply well to some jobs like quality control.
For a while once, I worked QA at a print shop. NOTHING got past me! I drive the press operators crazy.
I would notice the slightest variations in registration or color. The press operator would flat our deny the color being off until I made him put the electronic meter on the material and prove it. I could spot the color change without a meter.


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11 Dec 2011, 2:38 am

It rings very true for me, particularly


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There is much evidence that one of the problems many autistic people experience is their inability to distinguish between foreground and background stimuli. They often are unable to discriminate between relevant and irrelevant stimuli. What is background to others may be equally foreground to them. They perceive everything without filtration or selection. As Donna Williams describes it, they seem to have no sieve in their brain to select the information that is worth being attended.


I don't have foreground and background; I have things that I'm trying to focus on and things that are working to distract me from what I'm focussing on.


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12 Dec 2011, 6:24 am

very good article, it quite accurtately describes what i experience myself, even though i have learned ways to reduce the problems i get from these effects; mainly autitory...



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12 Dec 2011, 1:48 pm

This is a good article, written very well.

I always thought when people talked about autism and change that it was sort of an OCD thing, to regain control because of the lack of function in life, not an impairment of processing or functioning itself that was the issue. If what that article said was true about autistics than my mind has been blown. I mean I've always had sensory issues but I never thought about the connection before.