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qristy
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I found this (weirdly yonic but let's try to ignore that) Venn Diagram this morning. If it's accurate, then it explains why I've spent day much time looking at autism and going, "Am I.. ? No, I'm not. Am I though? No. But, am I?..."

What I AM is so enormously, obviously ADHD, I can't believe it took me so long to notice. Even after my brother got diagnosed, I was like, oh, good for him, I wonder what that's like... 🙃

I'm really curious about the bullet point "webbed/interconnected thought patterns" though. What does that mean? What does it mean to NOT think like that? I need examples, people!

And while I'm here, I wanna know what makes an interest "special".

Anyway I'm supposed to be working right now, bye

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twoai
@twoai

I'm guessing webbed thought patterns as in a spider web, in contrast to linear thinking (from point A to point B). The wiki walk would be a good example of a webbed/interconnected/associative train of thought.
...that said, associative thinking is so fundamental to my experience that I can't understand what it would be like to think linearly.

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amydentata
@amydentata

i have a hunch that "webbed thought patterns" are related to the thing where some people can learn new concepts the "traditional" teaching method of drip-feeding factoids and building up toward how the whole system works, whereas other people learn much better if they get a broad overview of the whole system first so that the factoids have a place to slot in. could be wrong though.

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