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Willard
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10 Jun 2010, 7:12 pm

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I think it is the inability to filter and sort information.

To explain something properly to someone else you need to understand what they already know, what they want to know and what they find interesting or important. Then be able to filter the information you have into the information that they need.

I don't know any of these things about the other person, so I give them every single piece I have about the subject, in a sort of rapid fire approach. When they do get a chance to respond, they usually make it clear that they have failed to understand, so the logical thing is to apply more information.


I would agree with that. Of course the real why is - because we have a brain dysfunction. This is just one of several ways in which that dysfunction manifests. We're missing certain filters as well as a connector here and there, that's why they call it a neurological disorder. Its a form of brain damage, it just affects social functionality instead of intellectual abilities.



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10 Jun 2010, 7:18 pm

Thinking out loud............... an inability to process everything internally and only deliver what is necessary to the end user (the conversationee lol)
This can apparently be reduced with dopaminergic drugs.....so I've heard.................

I was thinking of causes for my "neurodevelopmental disorder" and I thought about my bad chronic coughing when i was 3 or 4 years old. It lasted hours, days weeks for some reason until I had my tonsils and adenoids removed..

So, I theorise potentially........a boxer gets brain damage from impacts......a person gets concussion from impacts, is it possible I got damage on a young, developing brain from this coughing either via the impacts or more likely chronically disturbed sleep? like a chronic, but mild brain damage. It does not fit, but there's a thought behind it ........



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11 Jun 2010, 2:29 pm

I guess that's what is called perseveration.
It may be of the same "family" as stimming and obsessions.
We tend to like to finish one thing fully, and in all details, before going to another. I am like that too.



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11 Jun 2010, 3:00 pm

Why do you go on and on?

Because talking can be fun.



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11 Jun 2010, 3:05 pm

I go on and on, about a lot of things.


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