Oh, what a dagger...

"People with #autism often have enhanced #visuospatial abilities—for instance, they tend to excel at picking out a target shape from a sea of distracting shapes in cognitive tests." #CognitiveAbility #CognitiveSkills https://thelifeshewrote.com/2025/02/13/resistance-is-reminding-the-world-that-autism-isnt-the-problem/ Wait, what? Dammit. A few of the psychology experiments I ran in university it amazed me that they were actually difficult for people. They were super easy for me, which makes sense because they relied on visual processing.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-10-commonly-used-herbicide-adolescent-brain-function.html

two commonly used #herbicides— #glyphosate and 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4D)—and the insect repellent #DEET in urine samples collected in 2016 from 519 adolescents, aged 11 to 17, living in the agricultural county of Pedro Moncayo, Ecuador. Researchers also assessed neurobehavioral performance in five areas: attention and inhibitory control, memory and #learning, #language, #visuospatial processing, and social #perception.