Error

It seems that in people with autism an error can be spotted in their brain while ‘neuro-typical’ people, let’s say the average human being, make up a normal connection.

I was diagnosed with Autism*.

Do I suffer from lots of Errors? I don’t know.

I do often miss out on a sense of connecting with other people while they are discussing something and it is hard for me to engage with the right ‘intensity’.

Is this a lack of interest, my undeveloped skill to dig in to someone else’s perception, or really a brain-error that occurs? Hasn’t everyone experienced some sort of error when the dots just did not connect? Isn’t tuning in to one another always somewhat difficult?

Maybe an error happens to often for me. That is a possibility.

But still, can these connections in the brain not be somehow formed by practicing?

I do not know. I just tend to talk in precisely constructed, short stories, which can sometimes turn out in becoming somewhat incoherent. That is the reason I like to turn up well prepared at any social event. Just training my brain in to remembering a bunch of short stories and knowing when to stop.

In fact, everyone — functional brain or otherwise functioning — should just do their homework like this. This way I also get to hear a short-story from someone else who made a clear point.

For anyone who is afraid that communicating woulde be a one way street with me: I actually tend to give people some space to say something back. Nowadays I even ask questions! So I communicate well, right?

*I do not necessarily believe in my own Autism (ASD), but a brain scan can tell me otherwise.