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Interesting article

Ronald Zeeman

Ronald Zeeman

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Just read article in discover magazine looks like the NT are finally starting to get us. Stuff that we already knew if only they had listened. Latest special issue latest in science.
 
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I remember years ago stating on this forum that I can read facial expressions and body language which being on the spectrum should not be possible. Now the experts are starting to admit maybe they were wrong, actually not maybe they are just plain wrong should have asked people like me rather than making assumptions. sites like this are informing them. The last thing we need is some intellectuals dictating to us how our minds work. I'm also a closet
extrovert.
 
Ronald Zeeman said:
Just read article in discover magazine looks like the NT are finally starting to get us. Stuff that we already knew if only they had listened. Latest special issue latest in science.
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Can you provide a link, with specific title of the article you read?
 
Sorry not computer literate enough latest edition of discover magazine special edition January/February 2024. No idea how to get it online.
 
Is this it? Sorry, I haven't read past the first paragraph yet...

https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/the-neurodiversity-movement-has-a-moment-this-year
Here's a snippet, it looks like it could be the right one...
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Interesting. The theory of mind stuff tends to annoy me. I'm not good at getting facial expressions (probably because I tend to look somewhere else), but I'm good at understanding body posture and the overall "message" people send, even if I'm slow and it gets complicated in a group. The issue is that I do not react or mirror like other people do so I know it looks like I don't get it. Even if I understand other people's perspective, I may not react or be indifferent.
 
Watching utube videos from dr. happe she good. Her speciality is Aspergers, not being on the spectrum woke stuff.
 
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Referring once again to the idea of predictive processing. If the theory of autism (at least for some types) being an issue with over excitement of sensory inputs is correct it becomes easy to see the basis of many autistic traits.

According to the theory busy socialising is over stimulating because we are attempting to interpret what we are seeing rather than relying more on our predictions of what might be happening. We spend a lot of our time trying to make sense of what we experience, rather than using heuristics which are likely accurate enough to be better responses than our slow calculations.
 
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