26 lady entrepreneur and newbie software engineer. Somewhere on the spectrum but not entirely sure where. The way I look makes people overlook a lot of quirkiness.
I make money by fixing things. Mostly it's electronics, but sometimes it's people's lives and interpersonal relations. Actually, that part mostly just gets me food. I have a form of number space synaesthesia that is pretty much solely responsible for my ability to "get" a lot of NTs better than they do themselves. Although as a result I find it hard to believe that "neurotypical" describes anything but "the 95% of the mental range that can hide the idiosyncracies that it absolutely does have."
My processing is like this: Expressions and figures of speech and individual word connotations that share similarities are stored in close proximity and retrieved by location. The feeling is kind of similar to how you know exactly where your hand is when you put it somewhere outside your line of vision. My skill with behavioral pattern recognition and extrapolation to other situations is a pretty great coping mechanism that comes from that, but I do have to go through a couple steps of translation to feel like I relate to any of it, myself. But it makes reading dictionaries and thesauri very enjoyable, because of how much of etymology has behavioral roots.
The spacial mode of thinking also means that when unrelated things are next to each other they sometimes bleed over. That can be a little weird. I often have 3D "screenshots" of a particular location at a particular time of day (ESPECIALLY the lighting in the scene) associated with particular knowledge that I did not gain at that place or time. It's stored in a system that sort of resembles both branches and concentric circles.
I usually don't talk about this stuff much because rambling about myself is not a good way to learn more about people and things. But I figured it would be okay here.
I make money by fixing things. Mostly it's electronics, but sometimes it's people's lives and interpersonal relations. Actually, that part mostly just gets me food. I have a form of number space synaesthesia that is pretty much solely responsible for my ability to "get" a lot of NTs better than they do themselves. Although as a result I find it hard to believe that "neurotypical" describes anything but "the 95% of the mental range that can hide the idiosyncracies that it absolutely does have."
My processing is like this: Expressions and figures of speech and individual word connotations that share similarities are stored in close proximity and retrieved by location. The feeling is kind of similar to how you know exactly where your hand is when you put it somewhere outside your line of vision. My skill with behavioral pattern recognition and extrapolation to other situations is a pretty great coping mechanism that comes from that, but I do have to go through a couple steps of translation to feel like I relate to any of it, myself. But it makes reading dictionaries and thesauri very enjoyable, because of how much of etymology has behavioral roots.
The spacial mode of thinking also means that when unrelated things are next to each other they sometimes bleed over. That can be a little weird. I often have 3D "screenshots" of a particular location at a particular time of day (ESPECIALLY the lighting in the scene) associated with particular knowledge that I did not gain at that place or time. It's stored in a system that sort of resembles both branches and concentric circles.
I usually don't talk about this stuff much because rambling about myself is not a good way to learn more about people and things. But I figured it would be okay here.
