… I also believe I have a more single-thread way of processing the world, and high compensatory speed.
What this means is that I tend to process simple things very quickly and complex things slowly. For example, data is fast and faces are slow. Not noticeably slow; I overclocked, but anyway.
So how this plays out in a conversation is that I jump 5 steps ahead when talking about the practicalities, while everyone else is dealing with the things their brains evolved to handle; multithreading / emotions.
This might be part of why I seem to lack empathy despite not actually lacking it. Just my brain is a CPU while yours is a GPU and I am processing the logic while you are dealing with the graphics. I will do the graphics later, and you will do the logic later.
You might have finished processing the emotions while I have finished processing the logic, so you get a rather terse ‘it’s so obvious’ kind of answer. My emotions are raw and the answer is old; for you it’s the opposite. At least that’s how it feels.
The threads idea would also explain why I go to such extremes with my thinking; my catashrophising knows no bounds. It would also explain the sheer agony that is a looped thought; when there’s no way out and you’re just spiralling.
And the threads are all because of short working memory, which is in turn because of dopamine signalling irregularity. This feels like a complete system, so I’m going to run with it.
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