Do you say your brain works differently?

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I tend to when I was researching tunnel vision I came across an article on Autism and some of us have a certain kind of tunnel vision (we focus on one part of the environment as is my case with learning to drive) Well my mom had me look out the front window from the kitchen and called off look straight,right,left I did then she was like "see your brain isn't different it's no different then mine!) IMO she hates when I bring it up but IMO that Tunnel Vision article made sense and IMO fit my learning to drive situation (My dad said I need to see an eye doctor before he started teaching me again unfourtanently) Oh well. What are your thoughts WP members? (BTW IMO the driving issue is I'm focused on other thoughts whether it be a videogame or mainly the suspension from college which will be 5 years Feb.!)

I think it's fairly obvious my brain works differently. I'm interested in the tunnel vision thing... do you have a link to the article?

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Yes, we are differently wired. The brain may be plastic, but for autistics no amount of learning will change that which is different. No, not damaged or dysfunctional.

I believe your picture of why you have trouble driving applies to me. My three NT children have no problem with driving/coordination. Some autistics learn to drive, but after 20 tries, I have learned it is not for me. But good luck. Any skill that leads to more independence and self esteem is beneficial for those on the Spectrum.

My brain works differently from most around me. I am rarely on the same page as them and the things they do and say seem like second nature to them and I often have to think about why they do them or say them or why it's so important to them.
Do I have tunnel vision? Sometimes.

http://www.autism.com/families/therapy/tunvsn.htm


There's the link about tunnnel vision enjoy. IMO I want to learn to ride a scooter but first I need to learn balance I think I might try getting on my little sister's bikes and do it THEN when I save up enough money I can buy one.

Thank you for the link.

I'd also been thinking of getting a scooter first, but it would just help me to put off getting a car even longer, and to be honest, I will need to drive in order for my son to be more mobile too.

I'm sticking with automatic though. Everyone tells me to learn to drive manual, but I know what I can handle, and I'd be happier in an automatic.

I'll read that link now, again, thankyou.

Definitely. I think, besides social difficulties, the thing that always made me think pre-diagnosis that my brain works differently was my obsessive-ness. Little things like staying on a particular topic too long, and i could never judge what was "too much" and what was "appropriate"... When other people seemed to all be on more of the same page with conversations and interests. Hard to explain.. But that seems like it disconnects me from other people in a lot of ways.. My mind just being more "sticky" or "repetitive".

This post is related to the subject of the post but not to Tunnel Vision.

To a certain degree, everyone's brains work differently. That's why we have diversity of thought. I think it boils down to whether there is a fundamental difference in sensory processing. I know in my case that I have come to learn that I really do process the world quite differently. I started off assuming that if I could do something, everyone could. It's taken me quite a few years to realize this isn't the case.

Before I learned about AS, I came to the conclusion a few years back that I related to my world primarily through sound. It's not that I'm blind or anything even close, but it's more that my primary sense is sound. So if an interesting sound comes along in the middle of a conversation I'm having, I immediately stop having the conversation to listen more intently to the sound (sometimes in mid-sentence). I absolutely cannot help doing this.

I knew that I was this way from a very early age. Some of my earliest memories are sitting in front of a tiny little bellow-powered toy organ for hours, picking out melodies that I had heard. I apparently gave myself absolute (i.e. "perfect") pitch doing this. I used to hum to myself all of the time: walking to school, in class, at the dinner table... even in my sleep. Being in "my own little world" almost perfectly describes my elementary school years. I was too busy listening to all of the sounds going on in my head to really care about peer relationships or playing pretend. I never really thought about myself as being all that different until I learned in junior high (rather dramatically) that I was.

So I always knew that I processed the world differently, and I had even identified that it was because of my sensory perception differences. I was completey floored to find out earlier this year that it could be attributed to a neurological difference called autism. I mean... just floored.

AREAS IN YELLOW: Used by individuals with ASD for a movement task
AREAS IN BLUE: Used by a control group of NTs for the same movement task



Your brain works differently. Period.

Source: Di Martino A, Ross K, Uddin LQ, Sklar AB, Castellanos FX, Milham MP (2009). "Functional brain correlates of social and nonsocial processes in autism spectrum disorders: an activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis". Biol Psychiatry 65 (1): 63–74.

Definitely!

It's funny cause I've been thinking the lasts month since I realised about asperger's trying to realise how my brain works and what is the core problem of aspergers in the practise.

My conclution is -rather obvious and unoriginal- that there is a problem linking ideas.

Where my conclution goes different than the typical idea of this problematic, is that you have to understand EVERYTHING is an IDEA, shape, colour, texture are separated ideas.... even objects or sounds on the street.

So it is not that you are over stimulated by objects you see and you develope this strategy of focusing on just one thing at the time to get along with it, but more that you are neurologically unable to do it so, by wich I mean to picture the whole image (by linking one idea with another and so on composing a whole picture) therefore you can only visually read one thing at the time, BEING UNABLE TO PROCESS MORE THAN ONE IDEA AT THE TIME.

example given in the link: a pig and a spoon.
This is an example of different ideas (variables) you can have compraring a spoon and a pig.
"pig"
"(pig) shape"
"(spoon) shape"
"(pig) colour"
"spoon"

All of them unrelated between them for an aspie, all you see is "shape", "shape", "colour" and where is the pig? any answer the kid might give is pointed at one of this variables randomly and not one trully understanding the relation between them.
While for a normal kid a (pig) shape and (pig) colour relates to a pig, and a (pig) shape related to a (spoon) shape creates a contraposition: "it is not a pig it is a spoon"... and from there on all the posible links you can have between this 4 variables wich compose the whole idea of "comparing a pig drawing and a spoon drawing".

I have this tunel vision and I ride my bike everyday to work. When I'm riding to work my mind is processing the idea(riding to work), so it's almost imposible to me to have at the same time the idea that there might be other things linked with the activity that I should pay attention to (like people on the way). Even if I get this step further, whenever I see a sign or hear something I might never link the meaning of this (idea) with what I'm doing so I might not interrupt my way.

Very often my mind has to choose wich idea to process at a certain time, while riding my bike this means I have to stop riding the bike to read the sign that guides the road, or decide wich is the way to take or undertand what is a person trying to tell me -even though I heard well.

I'm still trying to find excercises to overcome this problem.

For now, I'll stick to the bike cause riding a car like a dangerous granma might cost someone's life. XDXDXD