EXPECIALLY wrote:
Based on the activties you're doing?
l've always felt like l can use either side of my brain very well, but not together. And it can be so plastic that things that interest me or that l excel in, can become nearly foreign to me if l spend time on something that utilizes a different area of the brain.
Example: l am capable of understanding sarcasm and underlying meaning in social interactions in my natural state.
After spending a lot of time learning to program and on other work for school that requires attention to detail, l am processing things very literally in social interaction. l'm kind of robotic and it everything l do seems to be structured.
When l spend more time listening to and becoming completely obsessed with music. l have almost zero access to my technical skills or attention span and have to spend a considerable amount of time transitioning back over to the ''other side". But l am naturally inclined to be more social and am not all robotic or literal.
This applies to pretty much any two activities that would contrast with each other in this way. lt's pretty annoying because l have to spend so much time switching between skill sets and have to become nearly obsessed with something in order to not lose the focus.
Yep, I get this a lot!! Frequently, with my wife, I'll be reading some computer/technical book and/or doing technical questions & exercises then she asks me something nuancey and I take it literally, or misinterpret what would be the obvious context. Not so much if I'm not engrossed in the technical subject at hand. I believe it has to do with the monotropic aspect of the Asperger brain (i.e. "one track mind") and rigid thoughts impeding subject (or context) transition.
10 Feb 2013, 8:02 pm
