memesplice wrote:
I agree with Haywire this has been a very stimulating thread.
1. I can read a map related to open country. Memorize it to the extent it becomes a graphic outline.
walk in the area and know where I am to about 100m at any time. If you can be bothered you make points of reference and can count the number of paces, this will tell you exactly where you are but it gets very boring and you miss the scenery. Good in fog with compass. I have acute sense of direction.
This is why I suggested hacking out the NT's , memes are powerful carriers of retroviral instructions. Like DNA probably 90% of the memetic stuff that is out there, and in our heads is just line afterline of nonsense that evolution's rather messily left scattered around because it never tidies up after itself properly.
I have the same sense of direction, that a several day hike through umarked mountains, working my way around obstructions, I mostly come out within sight of my goal. I still find my car by the dent in the fender, and have tried my key in other cars, wondering who left that on my seat?
I do not find many people in the wild, those that camp seek paved spots with running water, toilets, showers, a minimal house. They are visiting the edge of the grid, and do not dare go very far beyond.
Mostly they become involved in social networking with the other campers. If they saw a deer they would call the Ranger Station to come shoot it, for they have heard wild animals carry rabies.
We need to self define because they will notice us looking for the car, and think that is all, and never know about the ability to cover long distances in pure nature.
I am as confounded by their ability to go into a city, find a parking place near a building where they then find one room in that building and get there at a particular time, as they are about my ability to go into the mountains, with no marking, trails, and find a place where a hundred years ago a small group worked one little valley for gold.
To me their camps stand out, just as the places where the Indians camped, and why they chose that spot. When prospecting out west I found most did not see it as I did, when I told a rancher directions, just past the two settler dugouts, ten minutes up the old wagon road. They grew up on the ranch, and had never noticed. I see the trails of a thousand years that lead to the best camp spots.
This is just one of the watershed of differance in our thinking. It is not likely to show up in the DSM, though they might notice our problems finding their office, on time, or the car afterward.
For us to reach Applied Autism, and face it, we are stuck, we have to map many thought patterns this way. Not having their mental pattern is only a defect when they define the world, they are just as defective where we define the world.
There are equal patterns in social, economic, technology, where the watershed differance stands out if explored, we are explorers, and they are not.
The recent article posted here about the aspie who saw that sub prime adjustable rate mortgages would reset in three years, and many would default, then bought credit default swaps, insurance, was unpopular with his investors, till three years later when he made $100 million, and $750 Million for his investors. He found a trail others did not see.
Punch cards were old when Bill Gates came up with punch tape to program a computer, then it was digital tape, then disks, leading to hard drives. The path to the future is open, for those who see the trail.
Even those who define us by our lacks in the world, also see it is not a defect, as much as a differance of thought and perception. We may come up with the wrong answer, for their world, but we seem to all come up with the same answers on WP. Our differance seems a consistant whole.
Applied Autism is the concept of self defining those differances, and mapping how our whole system works.
I know I am different, but I feel like a whole. My life is great when not interacting with their world that I truely lack understanding of. At 63, I will not be learning their ways, mine work, I function in places they cannot percieve. This is not a dillusion, for once the trail is marked they too can follow it. The aspie who bought the CDS was first, the next two were the Investment Banks he bought from, they saw, and jumped in.
Our worlds do overlap, but 1/2% of the people have a monopoly on half the thinking. Only our group can self define the part about what works for us, and it runs in the same universe.
Our choice is to do badly in their world, or do much better in ours.
17 Mar 2010, 7:34 am
I personally don't mind the Alaska idea, though it does have the U.S. immigration laws set against it.
