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Austism/Asperger's/Savant Syndrome (pg. 2)
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| idoru |
I went to high school with a kid who had Asperger's. He was great at drawing, but he didn't realize it and was stuck drawing comics with absolutely terrible storylines. The potential was there, but I think he had more than just Asperger's because he was just out there. Anyways...
| quote: | Originally posted by prolikewhoa
do you think that if you have superior intelligence in one area you lack in another (like social skills, for instance?) talk amongst yaselves. |
Most everybody has their strong points. For example, while one person may excel in English they may do terrible in arithmetic and/or science. Unless an individual is scientifically diagnosed as having a disorder I don't think they lack the skills in another area.
I think that for most people it boils down to spending the majority of their time doing what they excel in and enjoy doing as opposed to trying to expand their skills in other areas. Take "geeks" for instance here; they love spending their time in front of computers doing incredibly smart things. Hell, most of the really hardcore nerds I know are some of the nicest, most outgoing, caring people you'll ever meet. Yet as far as demonstrating these qualities in public or working on expanding them, they don't because it's not of any interest to them.
*shrug* |
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| Beat Blog |
Some of the conditions out there are bizarre.
I read about a guy the other day (autistic, maybe, could be something else), who associates a colour and personality/emotion to every number he sees.
If he looks at the number "7", regardless of the colour of the text, his brain will tell him that it is red, and he will instantly feel at ease.
On the other hand, he might look at the number "1", see it as green, and feel sad.
The guy could read/write something like 8 languages fluently despite being less than 30 years old, again, something to do with each word having a "personality".
It's amazing to think that the human brain has this kind of potential. Imagine if in a thousand years we evolved to the point where anyone who couldn't recite pi to 100,000 decimal places was considered unintelligent? |
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| idoru |
| quote: | Originally posted by Beat Blog
Some of the conditions out there are bizarre.
I read about a guy the other day (autistic, maybe, could be something else), who associates a colour and personality/emotion to every number he sees.
If he looks at the number "7", regardless of the colour of the text, his brain will tell him that it is red, and he will instantly feel at ease.
On the other hand, he might look at the number "1", see it as green, and feel sad.
The guy could read/write something like 8 languages fluently despite being less than 30 years old, again, something to do with each word having a "personality". |
That would be synaesthesia. |
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| chach |
| quote: | Originally posted by Beat Blog
It's amazing to think that the human brain has this kind of potential. Imagine if in a thousand years we evolved to the point where anyone who couldn't recite pi to 100,000 decimal places was considered unintelligent? |
where i stopped reading...thanks for throwing that in there |
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| prolikewhoa |
| quote: | Originally posted by Beat Blog
Some of the conditions out there are bizarre.
I read about a guy the other day (autistic, maybe, could be something else), who associates a colour and personality/emotion to every number he sees.
If he looks at the number "7", regardless of the colour of the text, his brain will tell him that it is red, and he will instantly feel at ease.
On the other hand, he might look at the number "1", see it as green, and feel sad.
The guy could read/write something like 8 languages fluently despite being less than 30 years old, again, something to do with each word having a "personality".
It's amazing to think that the human brain has this kind of potential. Imagine if in a thousand years we evolved to the point where anyone who couldn't recite pi to 100,000 decimal places was considered unintelligent? |
this guy is really simliar. like 9 is tall like a skyscraper, where 6 is like a black hole. prime numbers are symmetrical in his mind and make him feel at ease. words also have colors and emotions, and he can learn foreign languages fluently in a week. |
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| Marc Summers |
| quote: | Originally posted by prolikewhoa
this guy is really simliar. like 9 is tall like a skyscraper, where 6 is like a black hole. prime numbers are symmetrical in his mind and make him feel at ease. words also have colors and emotions, and he can learn foreign languages fluently in a week. |
He doesn't like the number six, right? I remember watching the documentary, "Brainman" which was about him. |
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| Jackson |
Is Aspergers syndrome also where say your having a conversation with someone and you constantly think about what that person is thinking about you?
That book seems really interesting. One of the ones i will have to get around to reading at some point. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| quote: | Originally posted by idoru
Most everybody has their strong points. For example, while one person may excel in English they may do terrible in arithmetic and/or science. Unless an individual is scientifically diagnosed as having a disorder I don't think they lack the skills in another area.
I think that for most people it boils down to spending the majority of their time doing what they excel in and enjoy doing as opposed to trying to expand their skills in other areas. Take "geeks" for instance here; they love spending their time in front of computers doing incredibly smart things. Hell, most of the really hardcore nerds I know are some of the nicest, most outgoing, caring people you'll ever meet. Yet as far as demonstrating these qualities in public or working on expanding them, they don't because it's not of any interest to them.
*shrug* |
More often than not, I think that most "strengths" people see in one another are almost completely socially-based ones. Like, the ability to draw stems, more often than not, from good spatial reasoning which is a condition encouraged in children who, in their young experience, exhibit traits that people, honestly, like to "exploit". We are all indoctrinated and encouraged in school and at home - or we are discouraged and put-off from things we might otherwise we quite apt at due to some other aspect of social programming or even biological tendencies. I'm not saying it's all social - in fact, that's kind of my point - people with mental conditions exhibit extremely polar strengths and weaknesses in extremely specific areas - but not necessarily (or not as heavily) as people who are influenced by social factors. Their tendencies are almost entirely hard-wired it would seem and that, I think, is the most interesting dynamic of them all. Can they be expected to change and to develop? Unfortunately(?) not, but I think it's an interesting question to ask how much of one's own abilities is truly a natural talent and how much is just the eventual result of one's own experiences and interactions with others. Furthermore, how much of what makes you special could easily be almost exactly exhibited by someone else, given the exact same experiences and personal interactions that you have undergone? Of course this would be quite impossible to test and come to any certain conclusion of, as the component of time is ever against experimental conduct of this sort, but perhaps trying to understand those who exhibit dissociative, yet comparatively ingenious traits might allow us to understand ourselves much better. |
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| d-miurge |
| I saw a documentary film about Asperger syndrom some years ago, I remember they told that Einstein, Hitchcock, Leonard da Vinci, and many others suffered from it. |
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| mezzir |
its a fascinating disorder
every summer i teach at least a few kids who have been diagnosed with it to swim |
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| AndreaCKY772 |
| i am actually very interested in autism. i watched a couple of vids of people playing music on the piano right after someone played a tune. i saw one guy who remembered songs he has heard (even only once) and has played them on the piano...it's very interesting. |
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| d-miurge |
| quote: | Originally posted by AndreaCKY772
i watched a couple of vids of people playing music on the piano right after someone played a tune. i saw one guy who remembered songs he has heard (even only once) and has played them on the piano...it's very interesting. |
Every trained musician can do that! :conf: |
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