Aspies For Freedom

I think faster, much faster.  Of course, when one is doing so in a thousand directions at once, jumping from topic to topic, most of which are of interest only to me, the net outcome doesn't look very "fast".

My processing speed is below average compared to other people of a similar intelligence level. I believe this is one of the reasons why I have difficulties with most complex mathematics. On the other hand, my logic and reasoning abilities are above average, so oftentimes things that "click" in my brain instantly are much more difficult for other people to grasp. My brother is eventually going to attend law school, and he showed me the practice version of his LSAT (a logic-based test), and I thought most of the questions were incredibly easy. He and my mother found it difficult.

ok so im supposed to be an nt ... but I think the processing speed is to do with an inability to stay focused on one particular topic ie flitting around the internet, flitting around in conversation... wanting to say something in the midst of someone else saying something and having to hold back until the other person is finished... i actually read it more of an add problem according to the tests that one can take on line

but saying that Samuel can be totally on topic to quite frustrating extremes at times but at other time ... eg just before meltdown he can be so so hyper mentally that he flits from one thing to another in nanoseconds!

huh?
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I'm also a slow thinker...I ruminate, contemplate...ponder.
But I also consider myself a deep thinker.
I think slow thinkers also tend to be deep thinkers.

Somehow, I doubt that.

You're thinking of "running the gauntlet".  A "gamut" is an entire range or series, from start to finish.  It is originally from medieval musicology, which used the term to indicate the lowest note in a register.

Ah, fast processing speed is the ultimate Aspie gift, but let's not try and imply it's a superior way to be, eh?  Poor academic thinkers--college dropouts, high school flunkees, and the like--have the same exact worth as you Illusion, and everyone else in this poll who would say they are "fast."

Is processing speed the end all, be all of intelligence?

Is it possible someone could be in the 100th percentile for processing speed but still not get more than 130 (just gifted) on an IQ test??

By contrast, is it possible someone with very slow processing speed--below the 10th percentile--could achieve something great, or even have prodigious academic success?

Then maybe--paradoxically-- I'm a fast thinker, outsidelookinIn. Perhaps there's so much chaos and distraction going on that the "wrong" thinking process fires off at the same time as the "right" thinking process; in other words there's a hundred different possibilities, only one of them is optimal, but I can't find it because of everything else going on (and I can't shut that off.)  Is this the mark of a dyslexic brain or an ADHD brain, or is it the same net result for either condition?

I don't have a clue if there's a general rule for me. I think I'm faster than any NT when it's about an area of special interest for me, but I get distracted easily if the thing to think about is of no interest to me. I might even have a 'block' and stop thinking about it at all.

For me, it really depends. My basic reaction time is about average, but in conversations I tend to process data slower than normal(although this might be partly due to CAPD and the need to go back and try to seperate the noise from the signal). On the other hand,my visual processing tends to be a lot faster than average

You surely don't have to.  For me, I not only have trouble with executing, I have trouble with planning.  Sometimes the plans I make successfully... end up incomplete--or fail--in the execution process.  It's almost like I can't win, sometimes.

Translating theory into practice is where the problem lies.

From my limited observation of the world, it seems this is less a problem for NTs than it is for AS/autistics, but I may be overgeneralizing here.