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Which would be a cool superpower if I were capable of holding a job or going out in public. I'd rather have a cure, honestly. If that's 'eugenics', then eugenics is a good thing. Don't fucking entrench my suffering and pretend you're looking out for me.
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Would be interested to hear what the pattern recognition is like, either as an experience or in terms of sorts of patterns, at any length from tweet to encyclopedia, if you were up for describing
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It's not an experience, I just notice stuff. Misleading example: when I was getting diagnosed in grad school, I took some version of Raven's Progressive Matrices. Psychologist said it was the first time she'd seen someone get a perfect score.
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If I wanted to be fancy I could say my brain keeps compulsively decomposing and recombining elements of my environment and looking for matches as a defense strategy because I can't see the usual signals most humans use to orient themselves.
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But I can't really give you an example except to point to the jokes I make on Twitter.
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nb.: Very Large Frontal Lobe doesn't mean Super Effective Frontal Lobe, it's more like Partial Lobotomy. Apathy and memory deficits.
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