@Richard_Littler@actuallyautistic I see myself in both sides, though I know less Grateful Dead. And I've gotten to the point where if someone says "write it down" I torture them by actually writing, and forcing them to actually talk to me instead of monologuing.
Don't force a filter on me. Filters mean I miss the gorilla when asked to count the number of times the ball is passed between people. (Which I'm too distracted to actually see anyways)
@Richard_Littler@actuallyautistic every day in primary school was like this. We had verbal arithmetic tests, known as "mental". I could do the work, but only ever got a score of 1/10. Couldn't tune in fast enough to hear the other 9 questions. Like a detour between the ear and the brain that took too long. I still struggle with anything verbal and complex.
@Richard_Littler@actuallyautistic I find it much easier to focus on recorded speech when it is sped up (1.5-2.5x). At normal speed my mind wanders, and the speaker sounds drunk. Unfortunately I can’t apply this to the ‘real world’, where there are many more distractions.
@Richard_Littler@actuallyautistic Also the bit where the right-hand panel also contains some sort of running commentary as background noise on whatever I am currently anxious about/whatever I need to do tomorrow/composing a mental blog post I will never actually write down.
@Richard_Littler@actuallyautistic Also if you hyperfocus on trying to hear them, it’s like reading a ransom letter with magazine text cut out: each word is eyecatching but it’s fricking exhausting to read a single sentence, and good luck actually parsing it!
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