Yes. In that way, I’m a lot like a non-native speaker as I often respond literally to people, some jokes fly over my head, etc.
It’s easy for you but I’m finding out precisely which wires never connected when I was born that normally are connected.
When you are prematurely born, you get a lot of very early cognitive growth in small bunches. So I’m super smart in a number of very local areas. I’m even good with certain kinds inference and can reason out / deduce well, even if it takes time.
But some chasms I can’t leap. I can JUSTIFY why every one of those A B C D _could_ be the correct answer.
I always thought it was from having a creative writing mind: I can see possibilities that others can’t.
But it’s also a cognitive difficulty.
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I was very shocked to that babies that are “very preterm” (both around 30 weeks), no matter what part of the world they are born in, no matter what decade – 60s, 70s, 80, 90s, 00s, 10s… ALL have a very similar “phenotype”.
It’s autism but not quite autism. It’s adhd but not quite adhd. It’s sensory processing disorder but not quite fully that.
It’s really its own thing – and I think it’s due to being born at that particular time in physical development.
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The games people play with words often fall into tropes. Because most of us were raised on some kind of TV or movie video game or story background, https://tvtropes.org contains a lot of possible games people will play with words and how they play out in narrative and in action sequences.
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I’m fascinated by the nature of concepts themselves, how they push and pull and gain life in communication.
What makes a poetic connection function? How does that look in the brain?
I’m all over the place really. It’s not that I want to be.
I want to figure out “What is the best title for what I’m doing here”.
I just can’t do better than guessing. Art I guess.
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I follow wherever my inspiration takes me. I heavily encourage everyone else to do the same for themselves in my own way as I go along, and see what happens.
I learn something new with every encounter and this was particularly learning worthy
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