Another thought: I learned, early this year, that my way of processing the world is essentially inverted from the way most people do it. Watching my daughter react to the world reminded me of how I perceived the world before I learned to filter a bit for coping and efficiency, and I found that with a little mental effort in a non-busy moment I could take the filters back down and just SEE everything again, the world in all its overwhelming detail and beauty. It's not something I can do all the time, since I've got a lot more stuff to worry about and keep track of now. But it's a good thing to have for the occasional sensory trip. Thing is, when discussing this experience with my girlfriend, I discovered that she sees the object first and the detail second, where I see the detail first and the object second. The best way I've figured out to describe this is that she sees the building and then observes that it is made of brick, where I see the bricks and observe that they make a building.
I don't know if this is a gifted kid thing, an HSP thing, or some other brain quirk. A few of my friends share it, but it seems like the majority of people go top-down.
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Date: 2014-11-10 10:28 pm (UTC)I don't know if this is a gifted kid thing, an HSP thing, or some other brain quirk. A few of my friends share it, but it seems like the majority of people go top-down.