patdbunny wrote:
Ha! Ha!
My husband's (NT) "ah ha" moment was when I told him I'm like a horse. I have a hard time making correlations/intuitive deductions that two scenarios are the "same". I have to discuss details ad nauseum to come to the conclusion that they're the "same" despite differing facts.
Let me explain. When you work with a horse, you have to teach it through repetition and experience that assorted fences are all okay - a white fence is ok, a blue fence is ok, a wood slat fence is ok, a 4 ft fence is ok, a 6 ft fence is ok, etc. Sometimes it's hard for a horse to realize a white picket 4 ft fence is the same as a 6 ft high black iron fence. After a lot of repetition and experience the horse eventually can lump together "most of these things that look similar are fences" and to no longer be alarmed by new types of fences. Even then, sometimes they'll get hung up on a "new" fence that seems different from all the other fences they've come across and still freak out.
Anyone?
A tad.
It looks what you've posted here is the "weak central coherence" problem in Autism..... Everything is unrelated and you have work out the relationships yourself. The analogies are not obvious.
One of my peeves is knowing or relating to people in one environment ( as in only one set of circumstances), and then suddenly meeting up in a different setting. I
then lose my social coherence. It's a though you are starting from scratch......scary and weird.
I have a tincture of it and it crosses over into non-social common sense things. My mother used to say: " Everyday seems like it's your first day on Earth."