Cross Referrencial Thinking

[FayetheAspie]

Does anyone else relate to this. I'm not sure if it is my ASD or my ADHD, or the combination there of, or something else entirely. I am suspicious that it is the combination of having both ASD and ADHD. The following is a real life example from this very day.

My Mama was dividing the horse feed into buckets. She asked me to hold the lid. I said "Okie dok!" as I took the lid from her. Right about as my hand closed down on it, I realized something about it's appearance and blurted out "FRISBEE!"

 

[tree]

This doesn't seem unusual at all to me.
It seems natural that a person would realize associations.

"I'm a little teapot" was what I replied when the physical therapist
told me what to do with my right hand for an exercise that may
help with slipping rib syndrome.

 

[Tired]

Does anyone else relate to this. I'm not sure if it is my ASD or my ADHD, or the combination there of, or something else entirely. I am suspicious that it is the combination of having both ASD and ADHD. The following is a real life example from this very day.

My Mama was dividing the horse feed into buckets. She asked me to hold the lid. I said "Okie dok!" as I took the lid from her. Right about as my hand closed down on it, I realized something about it's appearance and blurted out "FRISBEE!"

Definitely nothing special here, it's a typical human thing

 

[Outdated]

In general autistic people do have a greater cross referencing ability than the general population and many of us learn in a non-linear fashion and also have non-linear memories.

For me to learn something new it has to be able to be cross referenced with everything else I already know, so new knowledge doesn't immediately become available to me. I'm an avid reader but if you ask me what a book is about 30 minutes after I've finished reading it I'll struggle to tell you much about it. Ask me 3 or 4 days later and I'm now an expert on the topic.

I never in my life had to study anything and there was never much point in me reading a treatise a second time, once the knowledge has gelled properly in my mind it's never forgotten because of the way it all relates to everything else I know. I noticed this difference and tried to analyse it when I was still a kid. Hearing the term "linear learning" gave me the key I needed.

As an analogy - most people remember things in long lists, I'm using spreadsheets. It takes a little longer to fill out a spreadsheet and check for errors than it does to scribble down a list but the spreadsheet is far more practical.

 

[FayetheAspie]

If I find something interesting, I am likely to read it over and over.
I suppose I will use either format from time to time. I like to use handwritten calligraphy when I write lists. Sometimes I really love to do that and at other times I have trouble settling down enough to write them down. Sometimes it is fun to read the items 2 at a time when there is a list.

Water
Soup
Fish
Scented soap

That last one sounds rather stinky.

 

[Shamar]

Does anyone else relate to this. I'm not sure if it is my ASD or my ADHD, or the combination there of, or something else entirely. I am suspicious that it is the combination of having both ASD and ADHD. The following is a real life example from this very day.

My Mama was dividing the horse feed into buckets. She asked me to hold the lid. I said "Okie dok!" as I took the lid from her. Right about as my hand closed down on it, I realized something about it's appearance and blurted out "FRISBEE!"

I do this all the time. My ability to make associations between seemingly unrelated things has helped me considerably. At one time I realized there was a flaw in the way we were analyzing electrical data. I discussed it with my boss, who replied "You are probably right, but we won't look into it, because I hate to think of the consequences if we discover we've been doing it wrong all this time." It also allowed me to build a large area, low capacitance compact sensor coil (was able to operate at higher frequencies).