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I hate this fucking show. The fact that it's run by the same dude who made House is mindboggling.
Unfortunately I have aphantasia, so all I get is this dumb dialogue wheel with 3 skill check options I can't pass and one really dumb option.
A buddy of mine had that. Said one of the options was always COOL BUGS.
Oh fuck can we share? I have like…. Hyperphantasia where I close my eyes to take a lil break from work and watch horrifying and sometimes kinda neat movies in my brain. I want half of what I have.
The "autsists have super powers" trope is ridiculous I agree but I will say that I can and do think this way occasionally. I notice it especially when I'm planning a route through the city that its like I'm rapidly flying above the streets with images of buildings flashing across my mind
Is that not how everyone sees their routes? Genuinely asking.
As a person without much of a visual element to my thoughts, and with a pretty good natural sense of direction, I plan my routes by imaging/"feeling" the turns I will make.
Spatial reasoning is one of my strong suits, and I've been called neurotypical. For me, it's more like I automatically build up a rough map in my head as I travel. Or if I see a printed map, it's like I take a blurry snapshot (definitely not eidetic) that I can follow later if I make a little effort to remember it.
It's not exactly that I imagine flying over the landscape, but more that the mental map is a standalone structure. I can easily rotate it in 3D space, zoom in or out on a spot, or place myself anywhere relative to it. The level of detail depends how much time and effort went into the mapping.
My partner has very little sense of direction in most places. She has mild ASD, can't make a mental map at all, and mostly goes by landmarks I think.
I played with a lot of Legos and Transformers toys as a kid, and had fun playing Descent 2 as a young teen, so all that probably contributed for me.
That is exactly my experience, albeit described much better than I've ever attempted. Do you also visualize math problems in similar ways? I found the ability extremely useful in calc and other higher maths.
I can do this in fictional videogame worlds but I can't navigate my own home county without Google maps lmao.
(Not diagnosed with anything but I have my suspicions, so ig take that fwiw)
I know you weren't asking for advice, but a good first step is to set your map navigation to always show North up (not route up). This helps mental map pieces align and fall into place.
That trope comes from the occasional comorbidity of autism with savant syndrome.
Co...morbidity?
co·mor·bid·i·ty
/ˌkōmôrˈbidədē/
nounMedicine
the simultaneous presence of two or more diseases or medical conditions in a patient. "age and comorbidity may be risk factors for poor outcome"
I agree. Nothing to do with autism. More like how our braincells connected together during development. My wife can visualise like crazy and memorise things by what colour they feel like, but doesn't have an inner monologue at all, and has trouble thinking about sound/voice/reading without saying things out loud. Meanwhile, my brain is pretty much an MP3 player loaded up with every song I've ever heard and set to shuffle, with my thoughts MC-ing over it. Neither one of us has any form of diagnosed disability. Brains are just weird.
What I didn't like about this show is that they act like being a doctor and having autism is so contradictory whereas historically doctors probably where mostly on the autistic side:
They didn't participate in the normal social activities outside their work but instead tried to classify and understand every or certain diseases obsessively
They did weird things no one else wanted to do or was even forbidden by society, eg autopsies or examining body liquids, excrements etc.
Also they kind of needed some lack of empathy to do the early treatments which often consists of hurting or doing something bad to patients because rationally it was better for them in the end - I think this part is shown quite well in the show eg when he is in the collapsed building and has to amputate the woman's leg.
I think it's only a kind of recent development that doctors are expected to be overly empathetic to patients and talk to them a lot and even explain them everything. In my experience, how the "normal" doctors in the show act is still rather the exception than the norm.
So the guy from house made a show about a doctor who heals people using autism in the same way house used substance abuse and sarcasm? Please tell me it’s called something insane like Doctism or Medical on the Spectrum or some shit.
Based on a Korean show, it's called The Good Doctor.
Oh yeah. The trope of shows portraying autistic people as savants with superpowers is hilarious to me, because every autistic person is just like “this is ridiculously not what it’s like to be autistic” and they’re always written by the most ignorant non-autistic people ever.
Shhhh don't tell them we aren't all super savants bro. Let us have our moment.
can you name a tv program with a good authistic protagonist? I just want to compare
Anything Star Trek. While a lot of these characters are not written to be autistic, they fucking are.
It always seemed obvious to me this show is written by people on the spectrum.
Abed from Community
Atypical. While the protagonist’s actor isn’t autistic and the first season was criticised for a lack of autistic actors, the latter seasons did include autistic actors. Generally I think it did a decent portrayal of someone with ASD (which can be hard given the wide breadth of how neurodivergent people present).
As We See It. The three main characters are played by actors on the spectrum. It's really good
Oh! Also, I love Extraordinary Attorney Woo Young Woo, though it is a Idiot Savant trope, it's just so good.
Movies, The Accountant. It's just so good and avoids the savant trope.
Will Graham from Hannibal, the TV show. I've always loved his subtle performance.
My kids enjoy Carl the Collector on PBS. Seems like a pretty authentic portrayal based on my (albeit limited) experience.
Okay, I am not autistic so take my opinion with a grain of salt. I think the protagonist of Atypical is a good example. I have heard autistic people say Drax from Guardians of the Galaxy. I have also heard them say Sonic The Hedgehog, but that may stem from hyper fixation with certain media or hobbies. I wanna say Forrest Gump but I haven’t seen that movie in a long time and I feel like there could be some problematic things in there I’m not remembering.
Just gonna save this into my mind palace
My mind palace is overrun with goblins.
You know about mind goblins?
What are mind golbi-
Which distro is this?
I AM A SURGEON
I remember there was a guy (maybe on youtube?) who always claimed he had pretended to have a hud for so long (it helped him overcome social anxiety and get out of the house, I think) that it was always in his mental imagery of things, and he said it was present in his actual vision. This was way back when though, before social media got big... maybe 2008-2010? I've always wondered if, like the people with their tulpas and such causing mental illness type symptoms, IF we could really change our perceptions that much.
I did that. It was with Terminator vision. It's still kind of clicks into a certain extent, but considering I haven't really actively focused on it in a very long time, that's not a surprise. If I try, it comes back pretty easily. That being said, it's not really useful. Like I'm not seeing actual calculations or useful data. But it is a weird thing that you can kind of trick your brain into seeing it if you imagine it for so long.
Probably why I think the idea of the HUD in this show is so fucking stupid. Like the only thing I'm seeing is a red overlay with some random crosshairs and a bunch of random strings of digits. About as useful as shit on Velcro.
I only have a HUD for words. Like, my brain has to put big block letter labels on everything in my mind. I see words more than images.
A steamer was saying something like that, like her internal dialog is a bunch of visual text flying through her brain. I have mostly complete aphantasia, so I hear everything instead.
Wait, you guys don't see a hud everywhere?
It's not so much a HUD for me as it is multiple monitors.
Isn’t it just an illustration of his photographic memory?
The same thing Mike Ross can do in Suits.
I have AudHd, I can only see clips from various tv shows and I don't get to choose what's playing
Today we're upset that baby Cumberbatch has Sherlock powers? /s
There are people who don't have this?