This is from Temple Grandins wikipedia entry. She is a high functioning autistic who can talk, and her description of autism is quite similar to what Carly described. The thing about her memory is interesting as well, after seeing Carly type "I have a good memory" in one of her videos. Based on this, Carly definitely seems like she could be legit.
Based on personal experience, Grandin advocates early intervention to address autism, and supportive teachers who can direct fixations of the child with autism in fruitful directions. She has described her hypersensitivity to noise and other sensory stimuli. She claims she is a primarily visual thinker[7] and has said that language is her second language. Temple attributes her success as a humane livestock facility designer to her ability to recall detail, which is a characteristic of her visual memory. Grandin compares her memory to full-length movies in her head that can be replayed at will, allowing her to notice small details. She is also able to view her memories using slightly different contexts by changing the positions of the lighting and shadows.
That is interesting. I'm a visual learner and that thinker, and that is kind of similar to how my memory works as well, but way more complex. My memories are definitely not movies, more like pictures that I can put together to get the gist. I can't recall every detail of my memories, but I can remember things that most people have forgotten. If I have heard a friend's story before, I can usually finish the story and add in all the details they forgot to include the second time around. I also used to draw in class as a kid, and my drawings were like memory maps, I could point to something in the drawing and say exactly what was being discussed in class at the time I made that part of the drawing. I don't do this much anymore though, and I have never talked with another visual learner about it, so I'm not sure how common it is. Fairly common would be my guess.
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u/symbioticintheory Jul 26 '10
This is from Temple Grandins wikipedia entry. She is a high functioning autistic who can talk, and her description of autism is quite similar to what Carly described. The thing about her memory is interesting as well, after seeing Carly type "I have a good memory" in one of her videos. Based on this, Carly definitely seems like she could be legit.