So both my grad school friend, former advisor, and I have no idea what's going on for our meeting in an hour!!! I blame our specialized and under-connected nerdy geeky brains!!! According to different studies and images of Temple Grandin's brain, there are less connections between parts of the brain in autism and some specialty areas get very developed.
My former advisor and my friend are definitely NOT on the autism spectrum, but if nerdy / geeky normal people have some traits that are still within normal limits, that means their brains might have some mix of over and under connectivity that allows the geeky nerdy traits to happen. This includes being able to code interactions, but forgetting about meetings and such ;) There's a reason for the "absent-minded professor" jokes :)
Dr. Grandin and I have more extreme versions and variations of that. This is why we're on the autism spectrum. But it's nice to know even certain normal brains resemble ours!!!! Maybe that's why nerdy geeky people keep coming back to or staying in academia!! Similar brains think alike!!!!! :D
My former advisor and my friend are definitely NOT on the autism spectrum, but if nerdy / geeky normal people have some traits that are still within normal limits, that means their brains might have some mix of over and under connectivity that allows the geeky nerdy traits to happen. This includes being able to code interactions, but forgetting about meetings and such ;) There's a reason for the "absent-minded professor" jokes :)
Dr. Grandin and I have more extreme versions and variations of that. This is why we're on the autism spectrum. But it's nice to know even certain normal brains resemble ours!!!! Maybe that's why nerdy geeky people keep coming back to or staying in academia!! Similar brains think alike!!!!! :D
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