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Rewatching this...
I find myself thinking, not for the first time, that general psychology could greatly benefit by including more autistic people in their research to compare to the non-autistic results.
Mostly I'm focusing on how I and many other autistic people already think often in non-word concepts. I mostly don't think in words. Sometimes, but they're more a tacked on layer over the top of the "actual" thoughts.
In addition, I sometimes lose my words. Not as often as some other autistic people. But I find myself opening my mouth and just. The thoughts. They are not translating into language suddenly. I'm still thinking but the ideas aren't making it across the gap into language.

I think there's information being missed here that would be interesting to look into.
I don't know what neuroscientists are up to these days but I hope a few of them are thinking "but how would our experiments be changed by the effects of autism?"
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I remember learning how apparently humans have a shortcut in our brains, where numbers up to four get kind of... autocounted. There's some background process that can just look at very small numbers and "know" how many are there without doing the conscious 1... 2... 3...
I wonder if that's related to this. 4 is such a specific number to have in common like this.

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