marshall wrote:
DGuru wrote:
marshall wrote:
Bozewani wrote:
I believe the right hemisphere is the one that controls intiution and perception, whereas the left controls rationality and analysis.
If you want to call Aspergers's a disorder, which I disagree with, but for the purpose of arguement, let's say it is. I believe what happens is this the right hemisphere is deprieved of connections with neurons at the expense of the left hemisphere. Indeed, the average Aspie brain (INMHO, I am not a neurologist) has maybe twice or three times moreneuron connections to the left then neurotypicals but only half of the connections to the right of NTs.
I'm not sure what I am then as I'm good at all those things. I use both intuition and logic when I think. Using logic alone is too slow. I think of intuition as simply being hidden logic. Instead of thinking along the lines A->B->C->D I only consciously think A->D with B and C happening "under the surface". Then when I have to explain my reasoning to someone else I have to put in some effort to recover B and C and this requires more time.
Same here. I think what happens is we use logic at a more rapid rate and are wired so that "using" logic is prioritized over finding the words to "express" it.
Yea. I don't seem to be as "wordy" as a lot of other people on this site. The translation process for thoughts to words is often a struggle.
your posts make a heck of a lot of sense to me. either you express yourself incredibly well in those (fewer?) words, or i just relate well to the way you think. are you HFA? i struggle to find words too and for someone of my intelligence have (what seems to me) an embarrassingly small working vocabulary in actual conversation.
i find this interesting:
Danielismyname wrote:
The latest paper on such suggests that it is (2009).
Here:
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CONCLUSIONS: HFA involved mainly left hemisphere white-matter systems; ASP affected predominantly right hemisphere white-matter systems. The impact of HFA on basal ganglia white matter was greater than ASP.
if there is any kind of consensus on this, i'd say i'm more an HFA type than an ASP type. i've been wondering also if i have comorbid basal ganglia ADD. but i don't know enough (about either the difference between HFA and AS, whether it is greater than just the diagnostic criterion of delayed speech acquisition or lack of it; or about basal ganglia ADD) to really overponder it. maybe also some people with AS are just more right brained (and visual / spatial thinkers) and some more left brained (and verbal).
i recently discovered i have a cousin with NLD and though i haven't met him, from description sounds like he has AS and is just crap at math. i'm not sure of the distinction there either. (except as it is hemispheric)
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