RaquiGirl wrote:
Don't really know what you meant by that, but if it makes a difference, words and symbols/pictures are my thing, not math, music or patterns. Temple Grandin described autistics as being divided into three types: visual, music/math, verbal logic. I guess I'm verbal logic first, maybe with a bit of visual... but I am horrid at music/math stuff. LOL
Oh, I meant that it shows that there may actually be some kind of modification for age going on if people close to my age can score that much higher than I did.
Also, there are more than three ways to think - Temple Grandin's model is a bit limited. I do fit, though - I'm pretty visual, although with the hyperlexia I tend to be good with words. It just takes work to produce them due to the need for translation and apparently my possibly awful verbal memory.
Apple_in_my_Eye wrote:
I think so. Prior to BO I could write & debug computer code pretty easily, and now I can't really do it at all. And the problem always seemed to be that information was slipping out of my short-term memory (or becoming fuzzy or corrupted) much more than before. And when reading how I forget the parts I've read minutes before, which also makes it seem like it's a verbal short-term memory problem.
(I'd give a lot to know what on Earth burnout is on a physical level. Lately I've been looking up the effects of stress-induced damage to the hippocampus, which does fit in various ways, but with no real research about burnout there's no way to know if that is really what it is or not.)
Interesting.
I know I've had more troubles since 2004ish, a lot more troubles. I felt like I was cognitively less capable of a lot of things, and creative writing became a lot more difficult (although I can still manage it). I find it really difficult to do something like transcribe from recordings or copy from books - I mean to the point that it'll often take me 2-3 attempts to remember a single string of words, and the number of words per string I can remember is fairly low.
I hadn't heard about stress-induced damage to the hippocampus. It does make sense that burnout could reflect neurological damage from pushing too hard. Other organs can get stressed and damaged, after all.