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Interesting. I’m just the opposite. I can listen to a book on tape, or have someone read a newspaper story to me, and have only the vaguest idea what it was about afterward. I have to have stuff written down to process it. I test pretty high for Asperger’s on all the online tests, so I suspect it’s because writing processes info down to pure signal.
So I think that writing is probably close to pure signal *to you.* Not the same across folk on the spectrum, even.
Fantastic analysis at the end. This matches my entire life philosophy while being integrated with the life of people with handicaps: Accommodation, not privilege. As the Executive Director of various programs for adult with developmental disabilities, one of my first warning to all the new employees, all eager to apply their scholastic learning, was to remind them that most of the people they were going to assist were older than they were and that we, the so called non handicapped are only to help them live a better life in their condition and that they were perfectly capable of taking care of their basic needs without us all that time. I have seen so many failures at attempting to change someone. Thank you for sharing this.