Are all Autistics autodidacts? Is that just a thing we do?
@JeremyMallin @actuallyautistic
A thing I regularly faced in school was: Omitted steps in the explanation, creating large, gaping holes that only I seemed to notice.
Combined with my ADHD which resulted in having little patience with people who can't explain stuff properly.
Especially a lecture, where a person verbally omits stuff that make sense in their head. With no quality control ensuring that there is internal consistency and all the necessary preconditions are met.
A benefit of anything written down:
You can at least debug it. Find the position where the gap occurs. Try to derive the missing pieces from the context. Look up other sources etc.
@wakame @JeremyMallin @actuallyautistic Just because it's in YOUR head doesn’t mean it's in mine.
And they say we have that mind blindness thing. Yeah, right, she said in Brooklyn.
@brainpilgrim @JeremyMallin @actuallyautistic
A thing I find very interesting with more "neurotypical" people is the tendency to "cover up" problems, including those in learning material.
Instead of improving a problem that is certainly there (all you need to find it is give it several honest people to read), people rather justify a sentence or phrasing or even start to blame the readers who "got it wrong".
Similar with e.g. usability: "The software is fine, the users are just too to use it."
@wakame @brainpilgrim @JeremyMallin @actuallyautistic I find NTs fall victim to à sunk-cost way of handling systemic issues, where they don’t really integrate that a problem will reoccur. They half-ass (to use 50% of the Ron Swanson quote) a fix and are rewarded socially. Whereas NDs will see the systemic issue it right away and wince at the recurrence, so they whole-ass a solution. In doing so they experience a quasi artistic satisfaction as a reward.
@llPK @wakame @JeremyMallin @actuallyautistic I think we're getting into lack of critical thinking skills at a certain point, because under authoritarianism everyone's brain is under attack.
In first grade, in a red state, I was scolded by the teacher for arriving already knowing how to read. I still can't figure out why that was wrong, but great! My introduction to elementary school.
@brainpilgrim @wakame @JeremyMallin @actuallyautistic I feel for you here. Teachers who don’t know how to work with advanced students are routinely awful to them as a deterrence and diversion from their unpreparedness. I’m reminded of the Hot Fuzz opening scene “You’re making us look bad”
@ScottSoCal @llPK @wakame @JeremyMallin @actuallyautistic Every frame is brilliant to this action movie fan.