For what it's worth, this sounds like the opposite of autism to me.
People with autism generally have less of a filter for familiar or ignorable stimuli. Where neurotypical people are generally able to tune out things they know or decide to not be relevant, people with autism have less ability to do that, and doing it is more draining for them.
If anything, it sounds more like ADHD to me. But armchair diagnosis is always fraught with peril, and the couple of dozen labels in the DSM-V are nowhere near enough to describe the millions of ways that brains can be different.
Just living in a big city for a long time can do this to you. After a while you just learn to tune most stuff out and engage "autopilot", for a lack of a better word.
Zero situational awareness. Completely unaware of the disgust being felt by his date seeing a person defecate. Completely unaware a plant has been in the room for two years. The feeling to post this on the internet with a “lessons learned” theme is kind of naively comical.
You mean you think he shouldn't have? I think it's a great post. It describes a noteworthy phenomenon and doesn't much editorialize. The mere fact that some people have verbal internal dialogs and others don't went extremely viral. People care about cognitive differences, and many of the differences we're surrounded by are not obvious.
That said, the commenter who describes not remembering that his relative Cindy had died has a pithier story.
"situational awareness" walking around places like skid row or the tenderloin is exactly not paying attention to the normal (for the area) things going on that aren't a threat, like a guy pooping on the sidewalk
munificent|2 years ago
People with autism generally have less of a filter for familiar or ignorable stimuli. Where neurotypical people are generally able to tune out things they know or decide to not be relevant, people with autism have less ability to do that, and doing it is more draining for them.
If anything, it sounds more like ADHD to me. But armchair diagnosis is always fraught with peril, and the couple of dozen labels in the DSM-V are nowhere near enough to describe the millions of ways that brains can be different.
imp0cat|2 years ago
mocha_nate|2 years ago
Jeff_Brown|2 years ago
That said, the commenter who describes not remembering that his relative Cindy had died has a pithier story.
tomjakubowski|2 years ago