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   Alexis Bushnell (alexisbushnell@toot.wales)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 21:52:16 JST Alexis Bushnell

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   @roknrol @Zumbador @melindrea @LehtoriTuomo @actuallyautistic related - apparently the same is true for writing essays and it is common for Autistic folks to not be able to write an outline before writing the essay.

   That's a problem I had in school - I would always have to write the whole essay first and then write the outline from it because how do I know what's going to be in the essay until I've written it?!

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     Callisto (callisto@disabled.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 21:52:14 JST Callisto

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     @alexisbushnell @roknrol @Zumbador @melindrea @LehtoriTuomo @actuallyautistic Oh yes! It's been a very long time since college, but most of my essays began with a PHRASE and built outward from there.

     Christopher repeated this.
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     unhinged and unafraid (dorian@retro.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 21:52:14 JST unhinged and unafraid

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     @callisto @alexisbushnell @roknrol @Zumbador @melindrea @LehtoriTuomo @actuallyautistic

     I recently came across a description of autistic brains as "bottom up" processing and that really fits me.

     They describe neurotyoicals as having "big picture" oriented brains. They really quickly start filtering out anything that doesn't suit what gets identified as the big picture in their mind.

     Autistics, otoh, are more often "bottom up" processors. We see ALL the details and have to sift through them to construct what we see as the big picture.