Combined Left & Right Brained Special Interests

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My special interests is Bird watching.

I am totally absorbed with identifying birds with forensic detail but equally in love with the beauty, wonder and magic of them.

I was wondering if there are any other folks here with AS that have a special interest that involves both parts (feeling and intuition married with detail) of their brain equally.

Yes! Writing fiction. Same as you describe, I obviously have to go through the technical process of stringing language together in understandable form but it's guided by a feeling of magic.

Can you tell me which is which? I honestly have no idea.

I know I must be more one than the other, because when I gaze up at the stars I only want to look up at them and admire their reassuring beauty and feel an emotional connection with them, as though they were alive. I don't want people interrupting my thoughts, reducing the stars to mere matter, and pointing up there and educating me in a matter-of-fact way about which planets are which and how many light years X is away from Y and who orbits what.

What does that make me? Left, or right?

I knew it!

I'm always right!

(*joke*)

This has been most informative. I shall have to google this topic a lot!

Thanks, guys.

hi allwhite

try googling Donna Williams Left and Right Brained dominance

I agree, there is noting more soul distroying than people reducing beauty to nut and bolts.

Knowing how your brain works opens up a whole new landscape.

Right brained dominant people are generally able to feel and intuit well.......their ability to understand body language is generally quite advanced. I know many poetic and artistic aspies whose aspie-ness has put them well outside the autistic radar, just because they have a right brained orientation.

Donna Williams talks a lot about how many people with AS are right brained orientated and thus strongly sensing. The diagnostic crtieria is still so narrow and outdated in this respect.

well......how beautifully different we are

I am not saying one is more inportant than the other, just that both working together forms beauty for me.

I am as scientifically and literal minded as I am metaphorical and poetic

Go well

The whole left/right brain idea is grossly over-generalized. Any intellectual pursuit worth your time will require activity from more than one region.

For example, music requires theoretical, analytical, creative, and emotional abilities. These aspects cannot be compartmentalized into discrete areas of the brain. It's just not possible. There are too many factors to take into consideration, and not even neurologists are cognizant of what exactly goes on in that lump of fat.