2009-04-24, 01:40 PM
yeah xD invisible yay
am actually studying to be a speech language therapist, ironically, ironically, ironically... don't know if i can make it with my deficits, i really hope so.
and the wall thing - do you mean kind of like... the word is floating up there, among heaps of other words, and you know which one it is, but you're struggling to just reach out there and grab it?
like a vocab thing? i get it a lot.
in my mind, my vocabulary is like an ever-increasing fractal tree, bigger for some words than others. (fractals were an obsession too.) only, when i need to find one, can't view it from the trunk to the branches to the twigs, just view it from the twigs downwards (if that makes sense). am sometimes overwhelmed with all the "twig" words that could be appropriate to describe whatever word is at the "trunk" of the tree, and it can take a long time to travel down the tree to find the word i'm looking for.
sometimes weeks. by that time the conversation is long over and people look at you weirdly if you suddenly say the word out loud because you've finally figured it out!
i think that's what is meant by detail-oriented processing. normal people are at the bottom of the tree, looking up, but my brain being wired the way it is, am at the top of the tree, looking down.
am actually studying to be a speech language therapist, ironically, ironically, ironically... don't know if i can make it with my deficits, i really hope so.
and the wall thing - do you mean kind of like... the word is floating up there, among heaps of other words, and you know which one it is, but you're struggling to just reach out there and grab it?
like a vocab thing? i get it a lot.
in my mind, my vocabulary is like an ever-increasing fractal tree, bigger for some words than others. (fractals were an obsession too.) only, when i need to find one, can't view it from the trunk to the branches to the twigs, just view it from the twigs downwards (if that makes sense). am sometimes overwhelmed with all the "twig" words that could be appropriate to describe whatever word is at the "trunk" of the tree, and it can take a long time to travel down the tree to find the word i'm looking for.
sometimes weeks. by that time the conversation is long over and people look at you weirdly if you suddenly say the word out loud because you've finally figured it out!
i think that's what is meant by detail-oriented processing. normal people are at the bottom of the tree, looking up, but my brain being wired the way it is, am at the top of the tree, looking down.