Just stumbled across a possible cause of aspergers

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I have been trying to work out why my diploma course has been giving me so many issues and I found into online about the 3 types of learning styles.

Tactile
Visual
Auditory

Now I was thinking I was a visual learner but going through the characteristics I have found that I am a tactile learning style person mainly with poor in the rest but still a little.

Turns out tactile learners tend to have issues in school because most teaching is done visually with demos and auditory with lectures.

Aspergers are social skill issues mainly and alot of the problem is not noticing visual or auditory queues which are my poor learning styles. Tactile learners also learn by doing things so that might be why in later life the practice they get kinda smoothes out the rough edges.

My theory is our social issues might be because most Aspergers people might be tactile learners and our parents while we were growing up were teaching us social skills by visual and auditory lessons which as my mother always said go in one ear and out the other.

Am I crazy or does my famous "Aspie Logic" make sense? Has research into this theory ever been done? Has anyone ever though of this before? I googled and couldn't find info about this.

Sad truth is my interests and my learning style clash so i'm kinda unsure what to do since the job types I want are in fields I am having hell trying to learn. My interests are computer game creation and thats hard to tactile learn.

Aspies run the gamut in "learning styles." I learn mostly through reading; I am a poor visual and auditory learner. I'm a very poor tactile learner.

There's another theory which I believe might hold more water:

Aspies are primarily verbal learners; whereas people with HFA and "classic" autism are visual and tactile learners.

But you might be onto something there, Peteed.

I'm an excellent typist because I was a "tactile" learner. If I "think" too much, my typing suffers.

Something to do with something called "muscle memory."

Please: do elaborate, Peteed. I apologize for being a monopolist here!

Not sure if it is this kind off thing, but at work if someone asks me about something I'm working on, like questions about if something can be done, or if something can be changed or brought in, I have no idea, I can only know by actually going away and doing it.

I see what you mean kraftiekortie

I was like the 2nd or 3rd person diagnosed with Aspergers in Australia in like 1997 according to my child psychologist and the guy who worked it out is part of "Aspect" aka "The Autism Association" Anthony Warren who is like 2nd in charge now but was a lowly grunt when he knew me.

I'm so annoying I guess cause he remembers me still -_-

Personally I can't learn by reading easily, non fiction bores me and I can't make much sense of it. I read a fantasy novel however and I have a little screenplay going on in my head of the book. I was reading young adult novels by 5 years old I think or maybe 8 haha so long ago.

Used to lie awake for hours unable to sleep and think up continuations to books I read or movies I saw like Hook with Robin Williams I made up the next movie in my head. Or after learning about the water cycle at school I wrote a short story of "The Little Raindrop that could". Basically the water cycle version of "the little engine that could" but with the raindrop making choices like what fork in the river to follow.

I have always said I learn by doing things

Computers are like that. One frequently only learns by "doing," rather than through written directions. One has to "be there" to instruct somebody on how to do certain things via computer.

Peteed, you seem to have a creative-type mind. There was a thread (in April I believe), which had various "types" of Asperger's. It's not just the "logical-science-'nerd' type that has Asperger's. You should go into the Literature subforum within WrongPlanet.

I was able to teach myself programming by getting the simplest language and asking questions of people.
Reading a programming manual never helped me to learn.

Companies that employ game programmers have a reputation for treating them poorly. Web programming seems better compensated.

Or we were born with Asperger's, which is the most likely cause. You don't all of a sudden develop it out of nowhere.

Maybe, but they can't find anything wrong with Aspie brains like they can with Autism to explain how you could be born with it last I heard.

People are, by and large, born with Aspergers, I believe.

Asperger's = on the spectrum = born with it

Is it not cats and Star Trek that causes aspergers ?

Nope.......it's those darn dogs!

Well, you know I did have a bad experience with a dog chasing me when I was little.
There were cats and Star Trek.
I also got vaccines.

now I'm confused.

It's autism haters who pray on Mick Avory look-a-likes who cause autism.