"more rote than meaning "

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AD(H)D people are said, at least studies say so, to always want to know "why" and "what something is for", "which purpose is there". In order to process and remember correctly, they need to understand the purpose before all else.

Non-AD(H)D people are said to operate differently. Their brain processes information by first trying to grasp the property of a thing, whereas the purpose becomes unimportant to keep the information.

Or so says the part of neurology that fights the current idea of of the brain.

Is that what learning things from rote is about? Or not? Because I have no idea where ASDs fit in this.

Really!?! Because I don't think I'm remotely ADHD at all, but I do need to know WHY something is to understand it and remember it. I think I've ticked off a person at work for needing an explanation for how a process works, etc. But yeah, I can't process it or remember it very well if I don't understand why something's being done (or how something works).

All that seems the exact OPPOSITE of "more rote than meaning"-it seems like it's "more meaning than rote". Because I DON'T remember stuff if I'm just supposed to memorize random things with no meaning. (Which might be one reason I can't remember names.)

Packard Motor Company had a slogan
"Ask the man who owns one."

It seems to me that most of all that is said about ASDs is said by entees. It seems to me that those entees take ua a priori as unintelligent and then treat us less as humans than lab rats. IF the numbskulls actually took a few moments to ask then listen, mythis like this more rote than understanding thing would vanish.

I find quite the opposite to be true. I am terrible at remembering meaningless, rote information. Contrarily, if something can be interpreted meaningfully and conceptually, such that its components can merge synergistically into a bigger picture, I will learn it immediately and effortlessly.

Of course, as broad as this spectrum is, it's probably foolish to overconstrain this definition. Your mileage may vary.