Hm, I thought bipolars would be good with memory, cause their strong emotions would burn events into their brain, but maybe their bad at remembering impersonal stuff, like facts and figures that have little relation to them, the kinds of things that would be used by cognitive psychologists to test their memories.
I have no idea why people with wild mood swings would also have deficits in those areas, but not other areas, maybe it’s coincidence, or maybe it’s part of some broader impairment.
Aspies impairment could come down to one thing, poor holistic, right brain thinking, the kind of thinking you need to be an artist, athlete, philosopher or psychologist, cause good art, coordination, good philosophy and people aren’t linear.
Aspies think in like two dimensions but life and especially people are three or four dimensional, so they might be good with technical language and computers and math, not cause their necessarily more intelligence, but cause this is where their interests lie, and anything you do over and over again you get good at.
Aspies want a linear life too, they want to specialize in just a few things, they want routine, predictability, stable, simple progression from a to z.
So is extreme right brainism a disorder recognized by psychologists, or is it in need of recognition?
Are some races more right brained and some left?
Are blacks more right brained?
Does being right brained make you more primitive, or just equally advanced in a different way?
Does living in the wild make your culture/race dumb, or are huntergatherers and gypsies equally smart in different ways?
I’m inclined to think the latter actually, I don’t think civilization, or left brain thinking is so smart, althou Asian and white brains are a little bigger than black brains, and score higher in iQ tests, which’re very left brain biased, perhaps blacks are more intelligent in right brained ways, or perhaps they’re less intelligent overall, difficult to say, unfortunately insufficient resources have been devoted to testing such things.
I think humans might have a more sophisticated left brain and right brain than many animals, and are both better at adapting nature to suit ourselves (left brain), and adapting ourselves to suit nature (right brain) than animals, but we have chosen the right hand path, which’s left brain.
Many animals are more instinctual, but instinct isn’t necessarily synonymous with intuition, or the right brain, holistic thinking thinking is something else.
Anyway, getting back to what you were saying, I think Asperger’s could be both genetic, influenced by prenatal factors, and environmental.
This is just my opinion thou based on limited research.
It’s simple really, a life kept isolated in your room, away from change, people, plants, animals, color, vibrancy, and among technical things like, gadgets, gizmos, books, computers, could contribute to someone developing their brains in a more Aspie friendly direction, especially during a child’s early development.