Reaction time, processing speed in autistic people

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How's your processing speed and reaction time?

Lower than average or higher than average? Are you quick to think, to speak, to catch falling objects? Do your perceive others as slow moving constantly? Or do you feel you're throughout and but slower in thinking and talking? Are you last to reach out for a falling object? Do you think others are hectic and act too rash?

Did you ever did IQ tests/other tests in which processing speed was measured? How were your scores? Anything odd about them such as that they were higher or lower than your general IQ score?

I'm a touch slow. If I practice (say catching a football), I can keep up with other people but it doesn't come automatically.

I find it can either way, but it's rarely in the middle. At times it's like I have absolute precision, I can catch without looking, throw and always hit the target, or else I'm slow and clumsy, knocking things over I didn't even know I'd knocked against.

I have been tested and my processing speed is extremely high, I process information very quickly and can easily see the overall concept of things partly this is to do with my dyslexia.

Fast enough to be automatic and almost independent to the rest of my body

Well, it SOUNDS like you are making logical connections, but they AREN'T!

THINKING: It CAN be fast and I am often faster than most. EVEN when I SEEM slower, I usually come up with the CORRECT answer faster. Oddly, if I have to do something I haven;t done for a while, I am ALMOST like the guys on "the matrix" when they first learn things. HECK, when I landed in Denmark I almost drew a BLANK! Within a few minutes, I was speaking better Danish than I did in the US!

SPEAKING: I usually speak at a NORMAL rate. That is normal for males here. Some females just talk faster, though the fastest talker in the world(lastt I knew) was male. But, of course, I am not that person. I can EASILY understand spoken languages, even FOREIGN ones at about 3 times the normal rate.

I do okay at catching FALLING objects. It is when other people throw them that I have problems.

People USUALLY DON'T think I am hectic or rash, but they DO consider me to be quick.

BTW Sometimes I have to do like 10 things at once with ALL being VERY important. It is like my speaking rate TRIPLES, and the WHOLE WORLD slows down! I mean they even WALK in slow motion!

As for reaction time? I am going to HAVE to spend more time on things like luminosity. my reaction time STINKS! Oh I can drive FINE! I NEVER bump into people at corners. So for the average things, my reaction time seems QUICKER than normal. On games made to test it, they say I am SLOWER.

I don't know if this is in anyway related, but I tend to have difficulty sorting objects. Especially when I have to separate things and place them into groups. When I am cooking for example, I need to separate that which is unwanted from that ingredients I am going to cook with. What happens? My brain seems to always jumble things up and so I start throwing away the ingredients I want and keep the ingredients I don't. My mind seems too slow to handle this sorting out ritual.

Unless I do things very slowly, I sort things out incorrectly.

I don't have the last test results in front of me, but I do know that my lowest scores were complex attention and executive functioning, which scored in the very poor range.

I believe I did above average in processing speed.

However, when asked to do tasks, such as put paper clips in cups, my performance was at the 1%.

I'm a lot like asplanet. When i was assessed for my dyslexia the pyscologist tested my processing speed using an iq subtest in which i scored well over the 99th percentile.

In fact this high visual processing speed was one, of the many, things that made me come to accept that i was neurologically different, ie autistic

I think research has shown that autistics do particularly well in symbol seach tasks, where they have to look for abstract shapes in pictures. So generally i think aspies have higher processing speed

I find everyone else's reaction times to be slower than mine. I mean, I wouldn't have crashed into the back of someone if they sped up j/k

I do like to show off with my reactions and react at the last possible moment

2ukenkerl, I'm going to borrow your 'list';)

I either react too slow, or react in a weird way lol.

They are above average as long as sensory overload and high anxiety level are absent. I process information most rapidly when interested and relaxed. I notice that most I know move more slowly in tasks such as using keyboards etc. and that I react far more rapidly than the driver (I'm always someone's passenger) of a car to sudden events; they really don't like that. However, I am slower than average to talk and process others' speech.

i think generally my reaction times are quite fast.. i play ridiculous amounts of videogames though & i imagine this has helped.
i can catch flies but not with chopsticks, i can't use chopsticks very well one day i will & catch it on film..

my reaction time stinks, im very slow at processing and reacting, especially like if i drop something ill watch it drop and not realize it dropped until it shattered everywhere then ill just step in the shattered glass not even realizing it shattered lol, idk where my brain is during that moment haha

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