Autism, From Someone Who Is On The Spectrum

Autism and the Difference between Sensory Issues and Processing Issues (2019)

"Autism has taught me that the small things are actually big things."-Unknown

I have always thought of Autism as a filter between the world and my brain. Turns out in my case, it is more like there are two filters. One filter between my senses and the world; other filter is between my senses and my brain. Both have a hard time dealing with lots of sensory information.

For more years, I can remember I have been dealing with issues learning to drive. So in the last couple months, I have actually figured out it is peripheral vision and depth of perception issue or so I thought. I decided to ask our eye doctor about it, this year. See I thought it was filter between my senses and the world was problem. Turns out I was completely wrong about that and lead to a very interesting conversation how my brain process sensory information.

The problem is actually filter between my senses and my brain. My brain is not able to process the sensory information at rapid speed but do not have problem at slower speed. If someone threw a ball at you most likely would catch it. But if a professional pitcher threw a ball it is most likely to go by you and you hopefully would notice as went by but you would reflex fast enough. The ball throw from the professional pitcher is how my brain processes sensory information during situation that require rapid speed. Our eye doctor explain that my photography is more like the slower ball so my reflex work because it is a slower speed and engage in another side of my brain because it is related to the arts.

This one of those big puzzle piece because it explains why I have been struggle to learn this skill and most of it is in the way my brain is processing sensory information and not that I do not want to learn this skill. It was definitely is light bulb moment in my life because I know what that actual issue is now.