@cesarpose @actuallyautistic I'm lucky enough to be a #kaleidotropic autistic, in love with both novelty AND endless repetition.

There's even a third case. When I was in high school, in the early 1970s, when the school's one computer for student use still relied on paper tape to reboot its operating system, and computers weren't a ubiquitous analogy for everything, one of the few technically knowledgeable students compared my thought processes to the operations of an iterative computer program. He had heard me thinking out loud, repeating apparently the same idea again and again, but with slight alterations each time — until they added up to a major transformation. Today, my wife says she gets seasick if she watches me type, because I'm constantly editing by erasing and retyping, going back and forth on the screen. She calls me "Zipper Man"!

So besides pure novelty and pure repetition, there's iterative repetition — novelty within repetition.

I love it ALL!