IN the MOOD
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In the mood
Friday, February 24, 2006 By Eric Gwinn
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
If you saw a guy on the street yelling into a cell phone that blinked red but then glowed pink when he slathered his words with sarcasm, you might dismiss the phone as a toy, a 21st-century mood ring.But John Finan, a Duke University doctoral student, sees things differently.His essay proposing a mood phone recently won a Motorola-sponsored contest for college students.Finan proposed a phone for people with Asberger's syndrome, a mild form of autism that prevents the brain from picking up non-verbal clues: a raised eyebrow, a smile, a change in body language."Useful would be a phone that can analyze speech and assess changes in tone and volume and determine whether the caller was angry, bored or whatever and send this to the listener in the form of light," says Finan, who's pursuing a doctorate in biomedical education. But what if I wanted to hide my feelings from the person on the other end of the line?"Interesting question," Finan says, his voice registering amusement and reflection. "Do you have the right to keep your thoughts private because someone lacks the capacity to see them? No. If you post a sign among blind people, is it private or public domain? I think it's public."Finan wins a $10,000 scholarship, a Bluetooth-enabled car and an apprenticeship in Motorola's chief technology office.--Knight Ridder News Service Again IF anyone realized what we were trying to do and indeed what the proficient picture thinkers of autism were do doing to appear normal the Ideal mentioned in this article would be laughable.
From Rich,,,
If this researcher or indeed others in Autism Circles knew our vision is OFF as well as, our hearing especially during a conversation (for a few milliseconds typically) They would say "oh there is no way they can figure out body language ",their hearing and vision are not even on! They would be right for once!
As Proficient Picture thinkers we have been charmed enough to figure out many aspects of traditional thought -the same thought we share with you and we have EVEN been able to have the luxury of doing body language. Thus we can tell you the time when we resort back to picture thoughts our natural first language it would be impossible for us to read body language if our optic vision is OFF! Again when we think our brains create an optic image that cancels out our vision and we need to look at that image and figure it out. You could stick your tongue out at us and make stupid faces and we would never see it!
Modern Aspies treated to the "best" in ignorance probably just "don't get it" and might only realize they are out of it for a few seconds or millseconds. IF they had our luck and good fortune while they were out of the loop during a conversation they would realize the "Blank" spot as they know it is indeed the time they need to Thinking in Pictures- Those of us that have figured out picture thought know that while we are in overload that is when Our INVISIBLE to you thought process is working (or Trying to). We learned by accident mostly that we had other things going on during our thinking time and Learned to think with pictures. Picture thought it seems is the building block for traditional thoughts and the stuff Psychology doesn't have a clue about.
We have to take our Picture thoughts and convert them to real life words actions and thoughts. You try explaining a dream or a daydream in 20 words or less and in 5 seconds and see how confused you would be? Then you have to learn the social timing the ins and outs of people and in our case the 99 conversations people have, Often times we just fill in the blanks and fit in your mold of what ever one of the 99 conversations you might be having. There is little difference between a Savant the village Idiot and the Highfunctioning autisitc person just a little bit of luck and a few figured out picture thoughts! (That have never been in a text book before!)
My hat is off to this cell phone guru he has the right idea and the support to make it happen but he is just spinning his wheels.Our optic vision and hearing is off and you could turn the lights off on the Las Vegas strip and we would never know it if we were picture thinking. Just the idea of this proven thought process is just too bold for autism to admit to and sadly they are not real keen on listening. All of Mankind is paying the price! BTW I'd give something big if this GURU could invent a hearing filter for us that cancels out EVERYTHING else we hear. Our Hearing is decibels above yours and everything is the same volume to us.
Rich Shull Host of Blog Pre Rain Man Autism , Inventor of the Turing Motor a 70% efficient green car motor ;;; On the web at http://prerainmanautism.blogspot.com/ THE QUOTE
In the mood
Friday, February 24, 2006 By Eric Gwinn
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
If you saw a guy on the street yelling into a cell phone that blinked red but then glowed pink when he slathered his words with sarcasm, you might dismiss the phone as a toy, a 21st-century mood ring.But John Finan, a Duke University doctoral student, sees things differently.His essay proposing a mood phone recently won a Motorola-sponsored contest for college students.Finan proposed a phone for people with Asberger's syndrome, a mild form of autism that prevents the brain from picking up non-verbal clues: a raised eyebrow, a smile, a change in body language."Useful would be a phone that can analyze speech and assess changes in tone and volume and determine whether the caller was angry, bored or whatever and send this to the listener in the form of light," says Finan, who's pursuing a doctorate in biomedical education. But what if I wanted to hide my feelings from the person on the other end of the line?"Interesting question," Finan says, his voice registering amusement and reflection. "Do you have the right to keep your thoughts private because someone lacks the capacity to see them? No. If you post a sign among blind people, is it private or public domain? I think it's public."Finan wins a $10,000 scholarship, a Bluetooth-enabled car and an apprenticeship in Motorola's chief technology office.--Knight Ridder News Service Again IF anyone realized what we were trying to do and indeed what the proficient picture thinkers of autism were do doing to appear normal the Ideal mentioned in this article would be laughable.
From Rich,,,
If this researcher or indeed others in Autism Circles knew our vision is OFF as well as, our hearing especially during a conversation (for a few milliseconds typically) They would say "oh there is no way they can figure out body language ",their hearing and vision are not even on! They would be right for once!
As Proficient Picture thinkers we have been charmed enough to figure out many aspects of traditional thought -the same thought we share with you and we have EVEN been able to have the luxury of doing body language. Thus we can tell you the time when we resort back to picture thoughts our natural first language it would be impossible for us to read body language if our optic vision is OFF! Again when we think our brains create an optic image that cancels out our vision and we need to look at that image and figure it out. You could stick your tongue out at us and make stupid faces and we would never see it!
Modern Aspies treated to the "best" in ignorance probably just "don't get it" and might only realize they are out of it for a few seconds or millseconds. IF they had our luck and good fortune while they were out of the loop during a conversation they would realize the "Blank" spot as they know it is indeed the time they need to Thinking in Pictures- Those of us that have figured out picture thought know that while we are in overload that is when Our INVISIBLE to you thought process is working (or Trying to). We learned by accident mostly that we had other things going on during our thinking time and Learned to think with pictures. Picture thought it seems is the building block for traditional thoughts and the stuff Psychology doesn't have a clue about.
We have to take our Picture thoughts and convert them to real life words actions and thoughts. You try explaining a dream or a daydream in 20 words or less and in 5 seconds and see how confused you would be? Then you have to learn the social timing the ins and outs of people and in our case the 99 conversations people have, Often times we just fill in the blanks and fit in your mold of what ever one of the 99 conversations you might be having. There is little difference between a Savant the village Idiot and the Highfunctioning autisitc person just a little bit of luck and a few figured out picture thoughts! (That have never been in a text book before!)
My hat is off to this cell phone guru he has the right idea and the support to make it happen but he is just spinning his wheels.Our optic vision and hearing is off and you could turn the lights off on the Las Vegas strip and we would never know it if we were picture thinking. Just the idea of this proven thought process is just too bold for autism to admit to and sadly they are not real keen on listening. All of Mankind is paying the price! BTW I'd give something big if this GURU could invent a hearing filter for us that cancels out EVERYTHING else we hear. Our Hearing is decibels above yours and everything is the same volume to us.
Rich Shull Host of Blog Pre Rain Man Autism , Inventor of the Turing Motor a 70% efficient green car motor ;;; On the web at http://prerainmanautism.blogspot.com/ THE QUOTE
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