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Differnt methods of Processing.?

David

I heard that Autistic people are supposed to be good at drawing.

They announced it as though it was a great discovery that we process things differently.

I am not good at drawing and have very bad perception so could not do Geometry at School.

That might be because of  Co-Existing conditions such as Dyspraxia.

I do remember a Psychiatrist wondering whether I had a difficult birth because my Verbal Reasoning is good but Perception is poor.

The difficult birth could have damaged the perception side of my brain.

One researcher said that she cannot do research on me as my Perception is so poor so I am not typically Autistic.

I am sure there are many people labelled Autistic  who have poor pereception and are not good at drawing such as myself.

I wrote an article which said Do not Steroetype Autistic people and Non Autistic People.

We are all different and people with the label Autistic are so different from each other.

May be things will change when the new brain scan is in opperation as not so many people who are not really Autistic are given the label as Autistic.

David

Looking forward to replies.

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  • Hello David

    I also have severe perception difficulties, but I have very good verbal abilities.  I have asperger's syndrome, but I do not have dyspraxia. 

    My statement of SEN at primary school mentioned the huge discrepancy in my IQ, so big that I could not receive a global IQ score. I was, and still am, hopeless at jigsaw puzzles, numbers, organization and spatial awareness. I am excellent at reading complicated texts, philoosophical and historical in nature, and I have a huge vocabulary. I was very good at learning French at school, although sadly I dropped the subject after GCSE level.  Not a typical aspie then, but who is this stereotypical aspie? I could not agree more with your above comments. We are all different; no two aspies are the same, just as no two neuro-typicals are the same.

    Furthermore, my sense of direction is very poor and, like you David, I am really bad at geometry. I do not have Temple Grandin's visual skills-I am an auditory learner, which is why I have to read books aloud in order to process them.

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  • Hello David

    I also have severe perception difficulties, but I have very good verbal abilities.  I have asperger's syndrome, but I do not have dyspraxia. 

    My statement of SEN at primary school mentioned the huge discrepancy in my IQ, so big that I could not receive a global IQ score. I was, and still am, hopeless at jigsaw puzzles, numbers, organization and spatial awareness. I am excellent at reading complicated texts, philoosophical and historical in nature, and I have a huge vocabulary. I was very good at learning French at school, although sadly I dropped the subject after GCSE level.  Not a typical aspie then, but who is this stereotypical aspie? I could not agree more with your above comments. We are all different; no two aspies are the same, just as no two neuro-typicals are the same.

    Furthermore, my sense of direction is very poor and, like you David, I am really bad at geometry. I do not have Temple Grandin's visual skills-I am an auditory learner, which is why I have to read books aloud in order to process them.

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