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As I posted awhile back. My mind operates differently. I’m Autistic but not in the usual way. I combine ALL the traits but a few.

I believe this to describe me to a T.

Visual thinkers — Visual thinkers think in pictures and see things, either in their mind or physically, in order to process information. Visual thinkers may have photographic memory.

“My mind is similar to an Internet search engine that searches for photographs. I use language to narrate the photo-realistic pictures that pop up in my imagination. When I design equipment for the cattle industry, I can test-run it in my imagination, similar to a virtual reality computer program. All my thinking is associative and not linear. To form concepts, I sort pictures into categories similar to computer files. To form the concept of orange, I see many different orange objects, such as oranges, pumpkins, orange juice and marmalade. When I design livestock facilities, I can test run the equipment in my imagination similar to a virtual reality computer program.

My mind is associative and does not think in a linear manner. If you say the word ‘butterfly’, the first picture I see is butterflies in my childhood backyard. The next image is metal decorative butterflies that people decorate the outside of their houses with and the third image is some butterflies I painted on a piece of plywood when I was in graduate school. Then my mind gets off the subject and I see a butterfly cut of chicken that was served at a fancy restaurant approximately three days ago. The memories that come up first tend to be either early childhood or something that happened within the last week.

A teacher working with a child with autism may not understand the connection when the child suddenly switches from talking about butterflies to talking about chicken. If the teacher thinks about it visually, a butterfly cut of chicken looks like a butterfly.”

An interesting concept.
Somewhere in the back of my mind is a story real or fiction of coded messages being sent through the airways “in plain view”.

Is there a book, movie or historic event that used this premise?

Haven’t seen Casablanca in years. How did Casa Blanca (White House) get confused in the movie?

My mind operates differently. I’m Autistic but not in the usual way. I combine ALL the traits but a few.

Interesting post smoky. I have a question, and this is not intended to disparage you in any way. You just seem to not have a problem talking about how you think, and I've always been curious about this.

Your brain has worked the way it's worked for your entire life, I assume. How then, can you know in what it is to think like other "non-autistic" minds? Other than maybe what you can read in a book. How do you know other "normal" people's minds don't work in exactly the same way yours does and you're just better at describing it?

You know how some black racists complain that white people aren't allowed to speak on "black" issues because white people don't know what it's like to be black? Yet they feel free to speak on "white" issues when they don't know what it's like to be white?

We all know what WE are like if we study ourselves. But can we TRULY know what it's like to be somebody else? And to think like somebody else?

I wonder about things like this.

Not to go too far off topic, mind you. But we do work hand in hand with the "weaponized autists" of 8chan, who are the foot soldiers of Q.

Bagster

Lesser Oracle