Synopsis
This book contains illustrations comparing how someone like me views the world vs a non-autistic person views the world, including how we view friendship, noises, sights, routine, time, and have issues with boundaries.
It takes a look through illustration at why people like me are overly sensitive to noise, or have issues paying attention, or respond negatively to touch, or get upset when a routine is disrupted.
I am in my 50s, so I am looking at this as an individual who has had many experiences and train wrecks. I have spent many years of self introspection, trying to understanding how my filtering system affects my ability to function and my relationship with my environment.
In the last 1930s, Autism was first being diagnosed as a specific psychological process.
But up until the 1960s, it was accepted as a dimension of other psychological profiles.
Once it was understood as a unique neurological characteristic, studies branched out to understand exactly what it saw, because we really did not know.
What about it led individuals to have a broad range of “peculiar” and atypical methodologies in experience and expression?
How do these individuals acquisition knowledge and apply it to every day life?
This is my understanding of how I process information. I stress that it is mine, because I realize each autistic person is unique and may have very different processing outcomes.
About the Author
I am on the autism spectrum, but did not know this until I was around 40. So I spent most of my life trying to understand my eccentric behaviors and fondness for the peculiar without any "assistance" or "therapy." I described my thought process as "matrix thinking," because everything I had ever learned, observed, and experienced existentially sat on that matrix and was accessible all the time, regardless of context or subject matter. There was no "breaking down of appropriate information due to specific topics."
The reason I am using Zarqnon as the nomenclature for authorship of this book is simply because it amuses me. I like things that are unique and that break the typical. Why do it the expected way? If I am violating some preconceived notion of "how it is supposed to be done," then it begs the question "why is it expected to be done that way?" Stretching outside preconceived paradigms gives us the flexibility to experience divergent concepts within paradoxical work frames. I challenge the norm all the time (mostly because I don't understand the norm and even when I do, I find it "unconvincing" and personally unconventional.
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