The Same Picture thought 3 levels of Autism
TWO Picture thoughts BOTH of these images would be brain generated and invisible to the traditional thinker. Our Eyes might be looking at you and seem to be on BUT our optic vision is OFF. You might think of them as something like a dream or daydream. How well they can be translated to traditional thought determines the Idiot to the highfunctioining to the Savant
Translation from ASPIE picture thoughts to traditional thought from:
Village Idiot, Proficient Picture Thinker and the Savant same thought (picture) 3 DIFFERENT TRANSLATIONS
The Village Idiot (WE ALL see the same picture thought)
He might only jabber some gibberish and if you lucky all you might be able to make out is red, car, shiny,,,,,
The proficient Picture thinker takes the same Thought Picture and reads his audience, Figures what they want to hear, and said the car was sold at Householder's In Lancaster Ohio.
The Savant takes the thought and explains and describe a 1962 Pontiac, Explains its NASCAR heritage and how this version is noted as the world's worst car as less than 1/2% of them survive. He goes on to tell of the design flaw in the frame, the motor faults, the slim Jim transmission and the inspiration it is. After 20 minutes of talk you know everything you never wanted to know about a 62 Pontiac and if you were lucky you have a clue this talk held the key to something really big like a super efficient car motor. YOU MIGHT EVEN (look close) get an explanation of ABC order parts bins!
The Postal receipt picture thought.
The Village Idiot,,,,
Gibberish again, Green paper, offi'icccal (meaning official) mailkogosk (meaning mailman) These translations depicting the bad words might simply be the Autism thought process in an unrefined state. The word official needs converted from the picture thought you see here to the actual word Official to be spoken. For those aspies not at this level it is impossible to get the words ""Official Mail Receipt delivered by the mail man"" formed and spoken. A traditional thinker might see it as explaining a dream or a day dream. An Autistic person with no or little speech might have a picture thought just like this but can't figure out how to get it into words. Once upon a time using our splinter skills (absently) we accidentally connected speech to our thoughts and thus figured out how to talk. Modern aspies get cheated out of that advantage.
The Proficient Picture thinker,
Again figured out his audience and says this is the official registered mail receipt sent to the Autism Society of America for the letter asking to be represented in their Conference.
The Savant
Will tell you (like Rain Man) the every detail of the receipt and basically will read it to you word for word, just as If you read it right from this page. Social Skills and charm school IF he knew of them will tell him they are not wanting the details just the basics.
A few Notes,
Well, functioning people may or may not realize their picture thoughts as clearly as this. I have met 80 year old Aspies that no longer picture think, except for deep thoughts. It seems when proficient Picture thought is achieved so is normal traditional thought. Only when our Traditional thought cannot keep up with simple mundane conversation do we resort back to picture thoughts. Picture thoughts seem to be the step-by-step building blocks of the human mind. At this point in evolution they might be standard equipment in traditional people and Autistic people need to teach themselves those points, So far we have done that on our own and they have NEVER been taught in any school. Our Autism thoughts and milestones are the SAME no matter what language we speak, the internal Picture thoughts seem to be the same. We figured that out via double blind experiments in autism and meeting each other online.
From the Blog of Rich Shull, http://prerainmanautism.blogspot.com
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