11:05am November 7, 2014

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At a recent conference in Canada, I had another opportunity to talk with Tito. Throughout our conversation, his mother had to keep prompting him to attend to the computer and respond to my questions. I was curious about his sensory systems, so I asked him what his vision was like. He said he saw fragments of color, shapes, and motion. This is a more severe version of the fragmented perception that Donna Williams has described in her books. […]

Visual processing challenges such as Tito experiences may stem from abnormal brain connections, according to Dr. Eric Courchesne. The brain has three types of visual perception circuits, each different for color, shape, and motion. In the typical brain, these circuits work together to merge the three visual components into a stable image. Research has shown that in autism there is a lack of interconnections between different parts of the brain. Dr. Eric Courchesne suggests that in autistic brains, large neurons that integrate different brain systems together are abnormal. He states autism may be an unusual disconnection disorder.

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Temple Grandin, The Way I See It, p. 97-98

This would explain a lot about my own visual processing, if true. Donna and Tito have always both described it in ways that mirror my own visual processing issues. .

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