I have a hunch that what i'm doing is a sort of event driven "call-and-response" style memory. In essence, I'm encoding a chain of associations as a linear narrative, because while experiencing time doesn't work for me, my cause-and-effect reasoning still works.
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I've talked a bit about this in the past, if esoterically;https://twitter.com/ultimape/status/880224475685539840 …
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I've had some luck with "Narrative Analysis" as a way to ground my thinking. Building up chains of thought here on twitter work well for that as it anchors me toward a rough timelines even when I am not aware of it myself. Related:https://twitter.com/ultimape/status/819347216745775106 …
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The fun inference here is that I can also reverse the cause-and-effect bits. I always thought it was odd that I will often replay memento in reverse in my head. I even sometimes forget that they are in reverse order in the real movie until I remember that's the 'trick' it pulls.
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I can't remember the exact way it was phrased, but I remember that a section of "The stuff of thought" by
@sapinker talks about how cause-and-effect is encoded in language. But again, this is where autism is weird and suggests he's not considering that aspect.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likesShow this thread -
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Specifically, if you watch https://www.ted.com/talks/ajit_narayanan_a_word_game_to_communicate_in_any_language … - make a note how he discusses that "when"/"tenses" are often not understood intuitively for those on the spectrum. This is my experience as well, and I think is partly why non-24 is common in autistics.https://twitter.com/ultimape/status/816199471818244096 …
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Oddly, IIRC pinker goes into length on how some cultures have differences in their framing of direction and how that manifest in language norms. I'm basically just taking that and applying it to findings on tense/time as it manifests in those without a working model of duration.
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There is some research to back this stuff up. But it was published in 2012. "The stuff of thought" was published in 2007; makes me wonder if Pinker has updated his thinking on the topic?https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/study-finds-grammar-tics-in-children-with-autism/ …
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I do have an appreciation of time passing, but it's like it isn't being incorporated in to my experiential reality. I can recite to you what 'time' is to other people, but seems be meaningless to me. To me it all blurs together as cause/effect.
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I have a suspicion that autism could relate to how many steps signals penetrate in the brain. If there is for instance too much local connectivity, the brain may dampen weak signals to avoid overflow, but that means that generalization will be shallow, over the previous layer.
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It that is true, then event streams might for instance be remembered as causal order (connection creating history between individual events), and not additionally in relation to a generalized history that is shared across all events (global time).
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I am on the fence on the cause. It could be a low connectivity thing, or a poor signal strength thing, or purely a malfunctioning area (lesion?). Hard to disambiguate without actually looking at my brain in action, so i'm mostly just guessing as possibilities.
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Absolutely, the diagnosis is mostly symptomatic and not functional. It could be that one receptor type is underperforming, one type of neurotransmitter is not synthesized in your gut, or your motivational biases are not wired up in the standard way or other things.
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