Slow Processing

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I have a very slow processing speed mentally. I actually think very quickly but when I try to communicate I can’t process the information I’m trying to get across either verbally or online. I’m very slow and I end up stimming a lot in order to speed up my fragmented thought process.

One of my problems too. Yet it occurs more than often, yet random.

There were days that no matter how chaotic and stressful the day was, no matter how much I stimmed, what I ate or how well I slept -- didn't had such problems at all. Sometimes this lasts for days straight.
Then it just ends all the sudden, and have the problem all over again. No matter what happens around me or at me.

I'm finding out why...

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I find that I can learn to do things better, such as walking and improving my balance, if I practice twice a day for several months for just 15 minutes. Once in the morning and again at night, It is really good now that I've been practicing the past few months.

I experience that when I'm stressed, and in person. Writing is a refuge for me because it's easier than verbalizing.

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The counselor put "motor retardation" on the insurance forms

I'm pretty slow at cranking out posts.

Yes, if there are more than two people (including myself) in a room and one person is asking me a question, then it will be somewhat likely that someone else will answer the question for me before I have time to properly process it.

A recent psychologist told me that my processing is too slow. He told me: "Autism means slow processing of information. That excludes you from many professions." I wonder whether that is true. My sensitivity to stimulation is often lower than the average sensitivity from NT people.

Slow processing can be a problem when driving a car. When I drive in city (let's say a big city or a metropole) with a lot of traffic, I can't pay attention to other things than traffic. I can't talk to other people in the car, make a handsfree or handheld phone call (handheld phone calls while driving certain vehicles are fined in the Netherlands for that reason). I can talk to other people when driving on a highway. The most attention is required by the traffic and navigation. And there is some "processing power" left (as far as you can compare a human brain with a computer's CPU). In a crowded city there is no "processing power" left, so I can't do anything else.

Yeah, I am pretty slow with processing things people say, and I have to read sentences multiple times in order to take them in. There are times when someone says something, I don't fully comprehend what they say but 30 second later, after I thought about it, I understand the meaning. In familiar territory and topics of interest, I can move quicker, but anxiety just slows me down in general. Stress has weight on how slowly I take something in.

There are times when I don't hear the words clearly until I've really thought about it. It's stressful for me when people throw a lot of unfamiliar information at me at the same time.

I am a pretty slow processor in general, unless I'm on autopilot doing something very familiar. I read and talk slowly and got double time on all exams while at university.

People talking very fast are very annoying to me since I have a hard time processing everything they're throwing at me fast enough.

But somehow I'm able to sing and drive safely at the same time and have never gotten into an accident that was my fault.

I need to watch movies or shows multiple times to understand what is going. The same is true with conversations. I have to rerun them in my mind many times to figure out what was said.

On the other side, when I am writing code, my fingers take over and I am in a zone.