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I appreciate that Baron-Cohen, who's made a fine career off autistic people without doing a damn thing to help them (extreme male brain, lawl), has no intention of helping us now or in the future. But could we maybe lock him in a room with Jenny McCarthy?
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Autism is a debilitating disorder that occasional produces useful traits as a side effect. And the gulag produced some inspiring books. And ebola inspired a bunch of cool zombie movies. My suffering doesn't exist to justify Baron-Cohen's preening moralizing. He's not helping.
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My left frontal lobe is about 40% bigger than it should be, probably thanks to a mosaic mutation affecting fetal brain development, and the rest of my brain is kinda smooshed around because of it. I'm really, really, almost supernaturally good at pattern recognition.
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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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. Banned in Sweden. SubGenius, Zhuangist, white-hat troll. Defrocked mathematician. Brain problems.