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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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I could describe something I noticed about my own experience. I've always had high reading comprehension and high empathy for characters in books. When I realized that I didn't have the same ability to empathize with actual people I spent some time thinking about why.
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I think it's because there's a limited amount of information on the page and a good author puts all of it there for a reason, so there are a finite number of useful ways to interpret it. The number of patterns that can emerge is much smaller than real life, where there is no /
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author crafting a narrative. If your brain extracts the useful social signals for you, then great, but if not, you're going to have a hard time with the near-infinite amount of possible patterns emerging from even one social interaction, nevermind a group of people.
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More generally, one can see too many possible explanations for any real-world phenomenon, and too many possible responses. It's paralyzing.
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Replying to @St_Rev @Meaningness
Extracting a general pattern for your problem with extracting general patterns? :P
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. Banned in Sweden. SubGenius, Zhuangist, white-hat troll. Defrocked mathematician. Brain problems.