Do the AS people here think how I do?

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I just wanted to ask your opinions on the matter, you see, In my head i can visualise in true detail anything, something in a movie or a video game and even nuclear fission, infact i can even make up my own stories in my head and add voices of anyone i've ever heard speak, and all of this in perfect detail, i just wondered if any of you guys do?

i do .. but not prfectly as you do

and i hacked 32 emails in just less than a month

yey me too atoms,particles an gravity are my favorite.
but i can think wat i want doesnt meen its true

Perfect detail? Not usually. And I USED to be better, but sometimes I come a bit close.

Cool, nice to hear that other Aspies think like I do, superior thinking to NTs.......

Although I have many of your abilities and do most of my thinking in images and sounds and flavors etc. and am reasonably sure I am AS I would not conclude these abilities are beyond people who are not AS. I doubt this area has been thoroughly researched.

I have a good memory for things I read, but not usually for things I see.

I can make up stories and make up characters but they are always people I have seen before that are them.

I polled and observed HUNDREDS of people, and found that most do NOT have the ability to visualize well, do NOT have photographic memories in any sense of the word, etc... So current media representations, etc... imply more ability than the average person has.

This is one of the big reasons I think I have AS (inconclusive evaluation). The incidence of photographic memory and visualized thinking in people with AS is a lot higher than NT's.

My first two years of college, I thought everybody was being lazy when they took down notes, because I thought it meant they just didn't really want to pay attention. In four years of college, I took down about 50 pages of notes, maybe 5 pages of which I read out of class. Also I graduated with honors.

I have described my brain almost like a little PC, with a lousy network, sitting in a BIG room that goes on for like forever. I can only use that little dinky PC, but somewhere in my essence is that gigantic room. Eventually, I may get that info, even if I last heard about it when I was ONE, over 40 years ago, but I can no longer depend on it working to the degree you apparently do. Also, I first experienced forgetting sometime between 8 and 10, so I knew what all this stuff was about LONG before college.

Some people here, like you, sound almost like they can directly access that huge room. Kim Peek has an odd setup to where he can almost split himself in two and access both sides of the room at once! He isn't autistic though. Current science says that is practically impossible for others, but they have been VERY wrong before.

In fact, my memory is SO good, from what I can tell, that maybe I should never say I have a bad memory, but a bad ability to recollect. After all, you can't recollect what you truly don't remember! Just last week I found and corrected a bug without even knowing there was one, or accessing a computer. Somehow my memory stored all that info and worked on it while I thought about something else. I would LOVE to have more conscious control over that kind of power. I could concievably finish a course from highschool to masters in a day or two!

If not for the idea that that room is so big, cross indexed, etc... and that, as a kid I WAS more like you say you are, I would say that I was failing in this area of AS. Judging from this forum though, I am probably in the center of those that have AS. I'm not quite as good as you, but better than several others. Who knows though. Maybe they never really TRIED to meet their potential.

yeah...drives NTs crazy. They say 'grab the side of the box', and I'm going 'which one? there's 6!... apparently there's only 1 obvious choice...

To be HONEST, there is usually an obvious bottom, so there are really only FOUR sides! If you take them LITERALLY, there may be an obvious front, which limits your choices to TWO! You have a 75% change of being right! WHY do I say 75%? Because there is at least a 50% chance they don't care which side you pick!

I think my son's brain is just like this He recalls details and imagery/media in stark detail. But, he has trouble recalling multiplication facts. Not sure why. Maybe it's selective memory?

My brain, on the other hand, is not this way and I recall vividly what I need to. I had to reteach myself much that I should have learned in school (I'm sure I did but I was checked out).

Actually i think i have selective memory, i can remember words like Light Amplification By Stimulated Emission of Radiation off the top of my head but i forget anything like phones, keys, pin numbers and so on, thats why i have none of those things