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Senses Altered For Those With Autism, Study Finds
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Do you have a link?

Oops, sorry.  

Here is it

http://www.disabilityscoop.com/2012/09/2...ism/16506/

Could it be that autists are being affected by factors outside the perception of non-autists?

Thanks for posting that Conlang.  I always thought we perceived things differently to NTs,  they seem to have a filter that makes them miss so many of the non-social details that we "get".  Little things like how a clothing ticket can drive me crazy, yet I can walk on a badly-mangled knee for months.  Or the almost painfully beautiful experience of looking at a leaf or a feather, getting lost in the tiny intricacies of detail contained within it.  Whereas an NT would just say, "meh, a leaf/feather" and walk off.

Makes me wonder how NTs experience the world, in that case.  What a lot they seem to be missing, poor things!  My husband often says he'd love to be able to look at things with my perception.

Alison

This post was last modified: 09-26-2012 09:58 AM by Alison.

After having thought about that for a bit, I wondered if that's why I've been mis-diagnosed by doctors so many times during my life?  I've been treated for so many different things over the years, even though I now know that I'm pretty much a textbook case for Hashimoto's with a side order of Lupus.  Could it be, not that I've been unlucky with a constant stream of incompetent doctors, but that my reactions haven't properly reflected how other auto-immune patients react?

Btw, I have a date for my assessment for knee replacement, it arrived today.  3 March next year.  That's not the operation, just looking to see if I need one.  Which I do, I could barely hobble today at uni.  It got so bad that I cut my last class and went home, then spent the next two hours clutching an ice pack to my knee and crying in pain.  Roll on 2013!  

Alison

This post was last modified: 09-26-2012 11:44 AM by Alison.

In your situation I would seriously consider flying to Thailand to have it done. I had a rather delicate procedure done in Bangkok a couple of years ago, no worries - and it was as cheap as chips.

Is Autism Squeaks now recommending knee replacements as a cure for autism?  

I've been aware of my sight and touch situation for quite awhile.... even back in the days of denial I was aware.

Is Autism Squeaks now recommending knee replacements as a cure for autism?  

Sorry, it was a bit off topic, wasn't it?  I'll slink on over to Random Thoughts if I want to maunder on about this subject!
Alison

I look at details too literally, I have animal companions because I have a liking of them.... I take things too literally in way that there needs to be a thing that makes sense of it all.

Either I can perceive all the details 'deeper' in something but only that one thing at a time (when I focus in) or I see the entire thing/system/image and can 'see the big picture', which is useful, but miss details.

I think my sight sense is normal because I can focus in and notice the deep details or 'see the big picture' like NTs. Hearing is completely different. I'm hypersensitive sometimes. Sometimes I can't understand when people talk if they don't say it LOUD and very clear. If I have to deal with a lot of noise, I can (usually), by focusing on the noise I make. I've been trying to control my sensitivity to sound and turn it up and down if I need to. I can't really put that in words. I don't notice smells unless they're strong, but I taste foods perfectly fine, so I must have a normal sence of smell. I hate the heat, but I deal with cold a lot better than everyone else.

Is it possible that when we respond differently to repeated presentations
of the same stimulus we are simply reacting to elements we had not
included in the assessment we made the first time around? In other
words, we don't go over the same perceptual ground again (& again
& again & again, etc) but observe different features of the attention
target each time?  I noted that the means of measuring our responses
thereto was highly indirect.
This question is simply a shot from the hip; not thought out in any extended contemplation, but might be worth some consideration.  
kullervo

This post was last modified: 10-02-2012 11:50 AM by kullervo.

I think that is a very insightful and intelligent way of looking at it.