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I hate this fucking show. The fact that it's run by the same dude who made House is mindboggling.

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[–] saimen@feddit.org 31 points 1 week ago

What I didn't like about this show is that they act like being a doctor and having autism is so contradictory whereas historically doctors probably where mostly on the autistic side:

They didn't participate in the normal social activities outside their work but instead tried to classify and understand every or certain diseases obsessively

They did weird things no one else wanted to do or was even forbidden by society, eg autopsies or examining body liquids, excrements etc.

Also they kind of needed some lack of empathy to do the early treatments which often consists of hurting or doing something bad to patients because rationally it was better for them in the end - I think this part is shown quite well in the show eg when he is in the collapsed building and has to amputate the woman's leg.

I think it's only a kind of recent development that doctors are expected to be overly empathetic to patients and talk to them a lot and even explain them everything. In my experience, how the "normal" doctors in the show act is still rather the exception than the norm.

[–] CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The "autsists have super powers" trope is ridiculous I agree but I will say that I can and do think this way occasionally. I notice it especially when I'm planning a route through the city that its like I'm rapidly flying above the streets with images of buildings flashing across my mind

[–] eodur@piefed.social 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Is that not how everyone sees their routes? Genuinely asking.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 6 points 1 week ago

As a person without much of a visual element to my thoughts, and with a pretty good natural sense of direction, I plan my routes by imaging/"feeling" the turns I will make.

[–] Deconceptualist@leminal.space 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Spatial reasoning is one of my strong suits, and I've been called neurotypical. For me, it's more like I automatically build up a rough map in my head as I travel. Or if I see a printed map, it's like I take a blurry snapshot (definitely not eidetic) that I can follow later if I make a little effort to remember it.

It's not exactly that I imagine flying over the landscape, but more that the mental map is a standalone structure. I can easily rotate it in 3D space, zoom in or out on a spot, or place myself anywhere relative to it. The level of detail depends how much time and effort went into the mapping.

My partner has very little sense of direction in most places. She has mild ASD, can't make a mental map at all, and mostly goes by landmarks I think.

I played with a lot of Legos and Transformers toys as a kid, and had fun playing Descent 2 as a young teen, so all that probably contributed for me.

[–] eodur@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That is exactly my experience, albeit described much better than I've ever attempted. Do you also visualize math problems in similar ways? I found the ability extremely useful in calc and other higher maths.

[–] Deconceptualist@leminal.space 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I think it helps with math that's already mostly visual or spatial, yeah. I crushed geometry in high school with like 110%. It helps somewhat with calculus, but not much at all for basic algebra. It can help with other subjects like physics or o-chem reaction mechanisms. It might've even helped with my art history classes, at least the portions on sculpture and architecture.

[–] eodur@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

Same. I killed geometry. I though it was also very helpful in calc for visualizing derivatives and integrals. I also visualize equations moving around, so it was helpful with algebra. Kinda like a mental chalkboard.

I don't approach math the same way most people I've encountered do, and I've always assumed it was due to this visualization.

[–] jellyfishhunter@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I also share such an experience. My spatial reasoning helps me a lot with linear algebra. However considering that it goes still down in 3D space, it's very similar.

[–] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can do this in fictional videogame worlds but I can't navigate my own home county without Google maps lmao.

(Not diagnosed with anything but I have my suspicions, so ig take that fwiw)

[–] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I know you weren't asking for advice, but a good first step is to set your map navigation to always show North up (not route up). This helps mental map pieces align and fall into place.

[–] Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That trope comes from the occasional comorbidity of autism with savant syndrome.

[–] Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

co·mor·bid·i·ty

/ˌkōmôrˈbidədē/

nounMedicine

the simultaneous presence of two or more diseases or medical conditions in a patient. "age and comorbidity may be risk factors for poor outcome"

[–] Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That's fair.. I guess I associate comorbidity with (extremely) negative conditions, not just a couple of things that happen to exist in the same person at the same time.

[–] Greddan@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I agree. Nothing to do with autism. More like how our braincells connected together during development. My wife can visualise like crazy and memorise things by what colour they feel like, but doesn't have an inner monologue at all, and has trouble thinking about sound/voice/reading without saying things out loud. Meanwhile, my brain is pretty much an MP3 player loaded up with every song I've ever heard and set to shuffle, with my thoughts MC-ing over it. Neither one of us has any form of diagnosed disability. Brains are just weird.

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

That's just a thing people in general do

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Unfortunately I have aphantasia, so all I get is this dumb dialogue wheel with 3 skill check options I can't pass and one really dumb option.

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

A buddy of mine had that. Said one of the options was always COOL BUGS.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago

Oh fuck can we share? I have like…. Hyperphantasia where I close my eyes to take a lil break from work and watch horrifying and sometimes kinda neat movies in my brain. I want half of what I have.

[–] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Just gonna save this into my mind palace

[–] _g_be@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My mind palace is overrun with goblins.

You know about mind goblins?

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago

What are mind golbi-

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

My mind palace is my own personal Google Earth of every place I've ever been to over the last forty odd years.
Oh, and a best-of selection of my erotic daydreaming since I hit puberty.
Go figure.
Stuff related to my job? Meh, I flush everything every time I change job, it seems. Sometimes faster, when the job itself changes. It fits with how fast IT evolves, so it's worked for me over the last twenty years or so of my career.

On the other hand my wife seems to happily throw away any memory that's not related to medical knowledge. I believe having aphantasia also contributes to her lack of any visual memory but still. It's kinda weird how completely different our brains function, haha!

[–] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wait, you guys don't see a hud everywhere?

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

It's not so much a HUD for me as it is multiple monitors.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So the guy from house made a show about a doctor who heals people using autism in the same way house used substance abuse and sarcasm? Please tell me it’s called something insane like Doctism or Medical on the Spectrum or some shit.

[–] thedaemon@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Based on a Korean show, it's called The Good Doctor.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 5 points 1 week ago (17 children)

Oh yeah. The trope of shows portraying autistic people as savants with superpowers is hilarious to me, because every autistic person is just like “this is ridiculously not what it’s like to be autistic” and they’re always written by the most ignorant non-autistic people ever.

[–] Jhuskindle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Shhhh don't tell them we aren't all super savants bro. Let us have our moment.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I only have a HUD for words. Like, my brain has to put big block letter labels on everything in my mind. I see words more than images.

[–] stray@pawb.social 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A steamer was saying something like that, like her internal dialog is a bunch of visual text flying through her brain. I have mostly complete aphantasia, so I hear everything instead.

[–] MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I have neither. It's just a lonely dark cave with a chittering monkey that can't focus long enough for me to understand what it's trying to say.

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 3 points 1 week ago

Isn’t it just an illustration of his photographic memory?

The same thing Mike Ross can do in Suits.

[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I AM A SURGEON

[–] moopet@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

I'm not sure how I feel about this.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

Meanwhile I'm out here tistic with no HUD. Figures.

[–] Deconceptualist@leminal.space 1 points 1 week ago

Today we're upset that baby Cumberbatch has Sherlock powers? /s

I have AudHd, I can only see clips from various tv shows and I don't get to choose what's playing

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