Very Interesting Biophilosophy topic

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[I have Asperger's.] [And this is a topic on my Philosophy.]

There's something extremely important that I want to touch on and let others know about it.
It's just from my observations and my mental artistic ability [it's not like others on this website can't think like this]. There was an experience that I artistically connected {Ex. A} with a recent experience {Ex. B} that I found a few days ago.

Ex. A: I was assigned to do a very long poem for my English class. After I read it out loud with an interesting tone/inflection, and ending the poem, the classmates clap and etc.
I sat back at my desk, and thought about everything that just happened in my visual mind of images, all at once. This was including the performance I did. All of a sudden, I got this wave of being extremely emotionally stimulated [or happy].

Ex. B: I went to my local Border's bookstore in my search for reading all about my Asperger's syndrome [yes it's a fascination]. I was in there for a matter of 3 hours, just sitting there in my own little world reading all of these concepts about Asperger's syndrome. They were all so familiar because I pictured, in my mind, instances that happened that connected to the facts contained in the book. This obviously got me intellectually stimulated. I could tell because my brain was at its full potential in terms of visually processing everything and memory intake and outtake improved too. I was so active in my head. I wasn't 'happy', but I was just normal and really mentally active.

So I concluded that I see two different ways of stimulating oneself, both in the stomach, and in the head. People on the autistic spectrum though...can intellectually stimulate themselves more often than they can emotionally stimulate because reading books about your passions will happen more often than showing off your work to a crowd. Building the facts into your mind that you wanted to know about.
In the emotionally stimulating perspective...how often would one be showing off their work to a crowd, compared to reading up on facts?

What do you all think about these two ways of stimulating?

Like many forms of stimulation, part of the issue is frequency. If something happens rarely, then the more stimulated you are each time it happens. So, establishing a set ratio is likely difficult. It might be also possible that certain minds respond differently to these variables, for example, the introvert-extrovert distinction is quite relevant to the kinds of emotional stimulation you are talking about.

I don't think much about the different kinds of stimulating, honestly. I would really question whether this is biophilosophy so much as psychology, or at most philosophical how it might be philosophy of mind.

Also, for future reference, you do not need to place what you consider the topic to be in the substance of the paragraph. You also do not need to say whether you have aspergers, are high functioning autistic, or even whether you are neurotypical in your writings either. I suppose you might do this as a matter of style, but you don't have to do this and most do not.

Yep, I'll agree with you on all these sentences. Pretty true, thank you.

It's definitely psychology, thank you. I thought of it as biophilosophy because I was pondering on our biology. Just made-up stuff.
I think I have a right to write whatever I want in my post, as long as it abides by the global rules of this website. Am I not correct?
I sure may not need to do the things you said, but I want to for the sake of organization and ensuring my background to others, from assuming nobody will look at my neurological status in my profile. It's no 'style' thing at all. It's actually the first thread that I ever made, so from the recent discouragement I'll probably change my ways of posting later on.

i always enjoy these kinds of stimulation, as well. it's the connections that make me happy. sometimes at very inappropriate times.


don't take AG's comment "also, for future reference,..." too harshly. i think he was more trying to say you don't have to do it like that. not trying to tell you not to.

welcome to WP, journeyman.

Oh okay I understand waltur. And thank you! ^_^