NT perception

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The fragmented perception thread and linked post got me thinking. This is how it works in my brain (not sure how NT, but without sensory overload problems):

I notice details such as folds of the curtain or small parts of things. But these enter a very short-term memory, and I forget them after a few seconds, unless they are directly relevant to me. (Personally I even forget not completely unimportant things: e. g. if I've just arrived and you ask if it was windy outside, I have no idea unless it was so windy I was cold.) And the environment scanning process usually runs in parralel with the main thinking process, so it doesn't interfere much with it.

So a difference from those people who have sensory processing problems may be the ability to forget, and the sensory processing running in parallel with the main thinking, thus not interrupting it all the time.

Does this make sense? How do others (asd and nt) see this process?

One person eggsplained it to me as when she goes to check the sign showing the hours of a store, she looks only at the days that are relevant to her at the moment, like if she wants to know if the store is open on Saturday, she looks at the Saturday line and sees that it is open from 8 am to 8 pm, but doesn't look at or remember the other days. But someone else might look at the sign in the same situation and see and remember all the days and hours.

I didn't relate to that post on fragmented perception.

When I experience sensory overload, it is usually not a matter of being overwhelmed by details. It is being unable to distinguish and filter details. For instance, in a noisy environment, hearing all the noise as a chaotic, cacophonic roar and being unable to understand what the person next to me is saying.

Also sometimes I make a beeline to the one detail that is most relevant to me, and fixate on that in a way that can make me oblivious to other things I should be noticing.

I notice lots of visual details when my other senses are not overwhelmed, but mainly it is geometric(?) types of details. Things like noticing that the walls in a room are not built square, a tile that is not flush with the others, a picture that is hanging slightly crooked.