AGAIN with literal problems!

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I bought this book that basically has brain exercise type puzzles in it. One showed a picture and asked which pieces didn't fit. I determined that they were ALL correct, but 3 were mirror images. OK, I know, maybe I should have known, and been more literal, but earlier ones did speak of mirror images being ok, and some gave caveats. It DID say pieces might have been turned. If these pieces were transparent, etc... turning them front to back would have given a mirrored image. No matter how you look at it, it shows how bad some of this is. I found the pieces, determined some were mirrored, etc... I did MORE than was asked but, had it been a graded test, I could have flunked. 8-( All because I assumed the question allowed turning on TWO axis rather than just one.

So, I just wanted to show Earthcalling the (ahem) flip side!

Steve

I think the ability to see things in the manner in which you do is an awesome trait, and that had that been a test, the test would have been sorely inadequate - not you! When my son was 7, the school psychologist adminstered a similar test (which was part of an IQ test) where he had to look at 20 different pictures and tell what item was missing. At seven years old, he got all 20 correct. When the psychologist was showing me how he scored, she showed me the test, and I couldn't get past the second one. I remember how impressed both the psychologist and I was at my son's success, and I still think it's cool that Aspies are so observant. The bottom line is that there is nothing wrong with you -- there is something wrong about the "test" you took.

Thanks for the encouragement, SK. I know he has a lot of potential; indeed, that all Aspies do, it is just a matter of finding their niche. I've been told that people like Bill Gates, Dan Akkroyd, Michaelangelo, Einstein, Abraham Lincoln, etc. all have/probably had, Asperger's. We use that as reminders when things are tough.

But hey, I don't mean to hijack your thread, here. You do bring about a point about people with AS being smarter than the tests.

Understood......I do the same thing, many versions.

In chemistry, chiral compounds are identical but MIRRORED and therefore have different qualities; the "lock and key" mechanism is therefore unconventional.

Try explaining that to an NT. And, NT's give the grades.