LadyButterfly she/her
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Feb 26 at 5:40amWeb
Show threadunmagicalFeb 26

I walk into a room and hear things. I hear lights and fridges, heaters, cellphones vibrating on floors above me. It’s a cacafony of endless clicks and ticks and humms and beeps and whirs that seemingly no one else notices.

Cats make good sounds though. The merps and meeps and jorps and mreeps and mrops and purrs are nice.

Show thread18107Feb 26
I knew the scanner had failed before anyone tried using it because I heard it start making a high pitched whine.
Show threadNo1Feb 26

Hmmmm. I’m still not sure you aren’t a cat.

Or Maureen Ponderosa maybe?

Show threadZorsithFeb 26
God help you if you need to convey the pattern you recognize though, then language as a tool will escape your grasp
Show threadxxce2AAbFeb 26
Or knowing precisely what point people are attempting to make five words into the first sentence and then politely having to sit there and wait for the next five minutes while they laboriously meander their way through it.
Show threadBremboTheFourthFeb 26
This is a dangerous “skill” to have, though. Very easy to slip into the trap of assuming you know what they’re talking about, only to have them end on a different point than you expected and then suddenly you’re responding to a point they never actually made
Show threadagamemnonymousFeb 27
That would be nice, but I can’t remember the last time that happened.
Show threadvithigarFeb 26

How about being a witness to a conversation between two others and you can tell neither of them understand the point the other is trying to make.

Bonus points for when they actually agree with each other but just haven’t put together what the other is saying.

Show thread18107Feb 26
My parents didn’t argue often, but when they did, they always had the opinion. Sometimes it would be half an hour until they decided they could agree.
Show threadadhd_tracoFeb 26

Makes me think of this Alan Watts snippet.

(imginn.com instagram frontend link)

Show threadCobblerScholarFeb 26

Alan Watts died in 1973 and yet this clip has him saying “scroll social media”. Only possible “social media” at the time of his death was email or a chatroom and those were in their infancy and the internet hadn’t been invented yet either. Methinks you may have been fooled.

EDIT: rephrasing

Show threadDigitalprimateFeb 26
Boy howdy, do I have a book suggestion for you…
Show threadStinkySocialistFeb 26
Well… What is it? Lol
Show threadNostraDavidFeb 26
Is it Mein Kampf? Don’t say Mein Kampf.
Show threadJustAnotherKayFeb 27
I think the actual worst part about this is that pattern recognition isn’t supposed to be a neurodivergent thing. Pattern recognition is like a built in feature in humans, but most people have it beat out of them in school
Show threadorbitzFeb 27
I thought that’s part of the reason we excelled as a species, seeing the patterns to eat or run from and knowing which is which. Plus getting curious about new ones and if they dont eat us figuring out what to do with them.
Show threadUnderpantsWeevilFeb 27

Pattern recognition is like a built in feature in humans, but most people have it beat out of them in school

Like so much else, it’s a trained skill. You don’t have pattern recognition beaten out. You just aren’t so heavily invested in a subject that you get it stamped in.

It’s not as though we’re born with the ability to hear Morse Code, for instance. You have to develop an ear for it.

It’s also a double edged sword, especially when you queue in on a pattern without understanding the reason behind it. Plenty of patterns are purely coincidental.

Picking out a “message” in a series of sounds doesn’t mean the dish washer is talking to you.

Show threadJustAnotherKayFeb 27

You don’t have [it] beaten out.

I agree and disagree. Pattern recognition is a trained skill, for you have learn to recognize each pattern. Pattern recognition is not, however, a trained skill in the way that you have to learn to recognize patterns at all.

However, during school most people have their ability to recognize patterns at all severely diminished due to “gotcha” questions on tests, questions that specifically are designed to catch you out using pattern recognition. This trains the person to not trust their pattern recognition, and in some cases people will actually learn to go against their pattern recognition because they assume things are trying to catch that