slow brain?

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a girl in my vision (i guess special ed) class said she has a slow brain,
curiouse as i am about such matter i imediatly checked all the medical sites i knew.
i found very little and what i did find has led my to beleive that it could be misdiagnosed mid functioning autism, this would explain the small number diagnosed cases of mid functioning autism and the lack of diagnosed autistic females, of course this is a skeleton of a theory and ive done little reasearch.
so put simply tell me about this 'slow brain'.
thanks in advance, Dp0p

Maybe she processes things slowly. I'm pretty slow at things myself.

I agree with LostGirl1986. I do tend to take longer to mentally process input and output. It makes me feel like the rest of the world is on a faster time track. It is not a low IQ issue, but just slow processing. My IQ is in the high average range, but that doesn't help much when everyone else is already half way around the track while you are still at the starting gate.

Well, I would imagine that a slow brain is one that does not do things as fast as a normal brain.

The slow brain just might be a highly active brain running to much to deal the unimportant trivial thing like school. instead running pie beyond the 60 decimal mark or prim beyond the 100 decimal mark.

Sounds like a processing speed issue to me as well. It is not a lack of intelligence. It just takes a little longer for your brain to process what you are seeing/hearing. Several people have commented that I seem to really think about my answers in a conversation. In fact it is just taking me longer to process input.

For me personally it is only a major problem in group conversations. By the time I have figured out it is my turn to speak it is too late and someone else has started speaking. A while back I visited a friend and he had a group of his friends there. I probably only spoke 3 or 4 times that evening because I was just far enough out of sync to be unable join in.

I have central auditory processing problems which means I process things slowly and I can only take in one thing at a time. I have to really concentrate on something if I was to process the information.

I'm a slow thinker but it's sort of like a racecar vs a tractor; a tractor will never win a Nascar race but its power in terms of tractive force is immense relative to a racecar, which has feeble tractive force.

Maybe she meant slow as another word for retorted as an insult or that she doesn't learn things as well as others do. I've been called slow a lot because of my Aspie issues & problems learning due to dyslexia

It seems to take me longer to process things mentally than most people, and yes it's certainly been noticed by others...not everyone is very understanding about it though.

We have recently found I have something like this going on. I think it was always like that and an injury made it worse. The more I have to concentrate over to think to compensate to interact with the world the slower my brain runs. My IQ is high, I just process slowly. I can figure out some very complex puzzles and patterns if given enough quiet time. I recently read an analogy that this type brain is like a shower with a slow drain, lol. Easily overwhelmed, needs extra time to process information before more is fed in, also may have trouble filtering minor info so it just overwhelms more. I am well into adulthood and now know if I could pay attention and now I am zoning out it is time for a break to catch up on processing or I will end up with a headache if I keep forcing myself to focus when I am already overwhelmed. So the zoning out is something to watch for as a sign a break is needed. Those of us with this have to learn to pace ourselves.

That's how I used to describe myself. Slow, or itchy brain because I think too much, too fast and it "itches" but things don't happen as fast as I would like. It's not an actual medical term, I just don't know how else to explain it.