Are you like a horse?

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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?

Neigh!







I do get scared of things being moved or new things though kind of like a horse.

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I have HFA, ADHD, OCD & Tourette syndrome. I love animals, especially my bunnies and hamster. I skate in a roller derby team (but I'll try not to bite )

Same here. This is often a problem I have with applying instructions from one situation to another that I perceive to be different from the first where the instructions were given. I have often been told "It's the same, just do the same thing." But all I can see is what is different and where the exact same thing is wrong.

Yep, that sounds like me. My mom often says that "every day is a new day" with me. Which means that just because I am taught something one day, week or month does not mean that I'll remember to apply what I learned to that same or similar situations in the future.

I'm definitely not hung like a horse.

Yes. Yes I am.

This is one of the main reasons I am unable to drive.

FASCINATING!

Sometimes I feel like an emu, too. Derp face going on and everything. Generally, I bust up laughing because I feel so ridiculous.

And thank you Mdyar for letting me know what it's called.

oh yeah, new people always activates the stubborn ass in me

hmmmm I never thought of myself like a horse before and I didn't know that about horses....but yes I do have to learn things through painstaking repetition and suck at generalizing things so I guess I am like a horse.

I am a horse on the Chinese Zodiac.... so yeah.... I am a Horse

My first full time job was diagnosing faults for a particular consumer ISPs customers. On the first day, a senior employee told us "Don't worry, if you have any questions or want to check anything, just come over and ask me" ...boy, did she regret saying that after two months of my endless questioning.

Following up on this - I'm reading Temple Grandin's Animals in Translation right now. She wrote about a horse that was afraid of black hats. She was impressed the NT owner figured out the specific fear was BLACK hats because NT's aren't hyper-specific, but instead very general.

Kinda funny because my first thought was "How hard is it to figure out the horse is afraid of black hats?"

I've always been able to intuitively look at and figure out in a few minutes what, specifically, bothers my animals.

Never realized this was an "odd" ability. My husband's comment is that perhaps I'm more emotionally an animal than a human.