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   Autism 101 :autism: :verified: (autism101@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Mar-2023 22:02:41 JST Autism 101 :autism: :verified:

   Do you ever experience your brain just spinning in a loop when processing what someone just said? This usually happens to me when I don’t know if a word is meant literally or has many meanings and I don’t know which one I’m supposed to use.

   #AskingAutistics #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD @actuallyautistic

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     Gothish Andy (gothandy@ravenation.club)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Mar-2023 22:02:49 JST Gothish Andy

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     • ⠠⠵ avuko

     @avuko @autism101 @actuallyautistic Thanks for sharing this, it's something I've not seen before. I'm still very new to this (I'm sort-of pre-diagnosis), so it's interesting to meet new ideas.

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     ⠠⠵ avuko (avuko@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Mar-2023 22:02:51 JST ⠠⠵ avuko

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     @autism101 @actuallyautistic

     TLDR:
     Your brain isn’t in a loop.
     You aren’t “stuck” or “broken”.
     You are ”hyper-preference processing” in particular parts of your brain.

     Longer version:

     As an #ActuallyAutistic person, your ? is amongst other things capable of hyper-perception, hyper-attention, and hyper-memory (and sadly also downsides like hyper-fear), which results in “excessive learning and memory processes, [which could cause] sensory regions [to] consolidate into overspecialized modules and lead to hyper-preference processing”.

     https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2010.00224/full