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1:04pm July 14, 2013

➸ Janna's weird crap: Inattentive ADHD in women looks a lot like Asperger syndrome in women.

theaccidentalnonconformist:

mousesinger:

karalianne:

mousesinger:

karalianne:

The question, to me, is which group you resonate more strongly with. And I don’t mean which group of people you get along with better, I mean which internal descriptions - case studies -…

I find it really weird that people keep calling Donna Williams abstract. She’s more like, more concrete than concrete. And that’s exactly the part of her that I’ve always identified with. (What she calls being “sensing”, and struggling with the “interpretive”.)

You know… I think I might know what’s going on. What she calls “sensing”, is a cognitive state most people have no conscious memory of experiencing. If you’ve actually experienced that, then the words she fumbles with to explain it, make sense in a way words may have never made sense in your life.
But if you’ve always, in your condos memory, functioned from inside what she calls interpretive thought (which even the most concrete version of us miles more abstract than sensing)… then you’ll have no idea what experiences her descriptions are trying to describe. And you’ll call them abstract because you can’t figure out what she’s trying to say, so you just assume it’s abstract?

That’s my guess anyway. Although she can get things really… off… when she shifts into interpretive mode.

But she’s literally the only person I’ve ever seen even close to accurately put words to what she calls sensing.

(Oh and what she calls sensing is totally different than what Myers Briggs calls sensing, just to be clear. Not even close to related.)

Anyway for all the problems I’ve had with stuff she’s said, she was the first person in my life to ever ever out words to my primary experience of the world.