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15 Jan 2014, 10:35 pm
15 Jan 2014, 10:36 pm
15 Jan 2014, 10:36 pm
JSBACHlover wrote:
Clarification:
That
face I put in there was a response to benefcii, but then I edited it away because by the time I submitted it, blabby had already replied, so it no longer made sense.
That
face I put in there was a response to benefcii, but then I edited it away because by the time I submitted it, blabby had already replied, so it no longer made sense.Never said you were. This is something that is also common in autism. I was merely commenting on the similarities.
15 Jan 2014, 10:36 pm
15 Jan 2014, 10:37 pm
beneficii wrote:
JSBACHlover wrote:
Clarification:
That face I put in there was a response to benefcii, but then I edited it away because by the time I submitted it, blabby had already replied, so it no longer made sense.
That
face I put in there was a response to benefcii, but then I edited it away because by the time I submitted it, blabby had already replied, so it no longer made sense.Never said you were. This is something that is also common in autism. I was merely commenting on the similarities.
Ohhhhh. Wow.
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15 Jan 2014, 11:26 pm
15 Jan 2014, 11:37 pm
auntblabby wrote:
JSBACHlover wrote:
@ skibum - ok if that's what a musical stim is then I am usually stimming musically.
@ auntblabby - I cannot mentalize my reality very well. I do best with abstract concepts and patterns. But I literally have only the tiniest bit of visual imagination, which probably goes hand in hand with the way I see. Oh well.
@ auntblabby - I cannot mentalize my reality very well. I do best with abstract concepts and patterns. But I literally have only the tiniest bit of visual imagination, which probably goes hand in hand with the way I see. Oh well.
for you to be an architect despite this indicates a high degree of compensatory intelligence. would you say you have an exceptional memory?
My memory is not exceptional as far as I'm concerned. It did take me longer than others to learn architecture because I would get so bogged down on a single detail. But I had enough coping skills to do good enough work for a job for a time, but then I would always "hit a wall," and then I'd usually get laid off.
I'm much happier in my current profession.
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15 Jan 2014, 11:54 pm
JSBACHlover wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
JSBACHlover wrote:
@ skibum - ok if that's what a musical stim is then I am usually stimming musically.
@ auntblabby - I cannot mentalize my reality very well. I do best with abstract concepts and patterns. But I literally have only the tiniest bit of visual imagination, which probably goes hand in hand with the way I see. Oh well.
@ auntblabby - I cannot mentalize my reality very well. I do best with abstract concepts and patterns. But I literally have only the tiniest bit of visual imagination, which probably goes hand in hand with the way I see. Oh well.
for you to be an architect despite this indicates a high degree of compensatory intelligence. would you say you have an exceptional memory?
My memory is not exceptional as far as I'm concerned. It did take me longer than others to learn architecture because I would get so bogged down on a single detail. But I had enough coping skills to do good enough work for a job for a time, but then I would always "hit a wall," and then I'd usually get laid off.
I'm much happier in my current profession.
if you don't mind, how does an architect "hit a wall"?
16 Jan 2014, 1:08 am
Now I'm getting all these images of architects having walls built and hitting them and knocking them down.
Thanks auntblabby! 
Really, I think I see too many pictures in my head sometimes.
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16 Jan 2014, 1:08 am
wozeree wrote:
Now I'm getting all these images of architects having walls built and hitting them and knocking them down.
Thanks auntblabby!
Really, I think I see too many pictures in my head sometimes.
Thanks auntblabby!
Really, I think I see too many pictures in my head sometimes.
that may be an advantage.
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16 Jan 2014, 1:26 am
auntblabby wrote:
a person went up to me in a supermarket one time, and warmly greeted me- It was obvious that she well knew me, at least, even though I had not a clue as to who she was. so I had to pretend that I knew what was going on, that was SO exhausting. 
That happens to me all the time. Once my best friend's aunt, who I have met on several occasions, showed up at the book store I was hanging out in and said hi and started talking to me. It wasn't until she mentioned my friend's name that I remembered who she was; she reminded me slightly of my old maths teacher, but I knew that couldn't possibly be who she was. I've also sat through 15 week classes at university only to see the professor again on campus once the semester is over, and have no idea who they are, only that I vaguely know them from somewhere. Whenever my mother has her friends or acquaintances over at the house I always have to ask beforehand if I've met them before, and she usually says yes, but when I see them I have no recollection of ever having known them. The worst is when they ask, "Hey, remember me?" and I have to lie and say yes, when in fact had they not asked me that, I wouldn't know them from Adam.
