The ultimate camp thread

[motorollin]

AFAIK gross motor functions like walking and fine motor functions like soldering are controlled by different parts of the brain. They are coordinated by the cerebellum, but by physically different parts of it. So perhaps ASDs like Asperger's affect only the part which is responsible for gross motor movements.

One other possibility is the automaticity of the action. Generally walking is an unconscious behaviour (apart from the conscious will to walk from one place to another you don't have to think about putting one foot in front of the other). Soldering on the other hand requires high levels of concentration. You have already said that if you concentrate hard on walking then your motor control improves. So perhaps ASDs affect unconscious, automatic movements more than conscious movements requiring high levels of concentration, and making unconscious movements conscious by concentrating them "bypasses" this effect.

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moto

[motorollin]

bloodline wrote:
Do you think that Autism offers you any advantage in linguistic learning? I wish I was better at learning languages :-(

Disclaimer: wild guess and generalisation follows. Speel, please don't take this as an attempt to answer for you or make any claim about you personally :-)


ASDs affect language on many levels, both expressive and receptive. The problem for the autistic language learner is that it can sometimes be difficult to discriminate particular features of language, such as prosody, and also to discriminate what is significant and what is superfluous. However, people with Asperger's typically don't show any significant language delay, so my guess would be that their tendency to be extremely intelligent cancels out any language processing problems.

I don't know what implications this would have for second language acquisition though.

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moto

[motorollin]

adz wrote:
I'd love to see a DJ open a set with that :roflmao:

So would I :-) Perhaps we can get Leirbag to sneak it in to his next set - I believe he does some DJing...

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moto

[motorollin]

Then you should rename this thread to "The ultimate obscure camp thread" :-)

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moto

[motorollin]

I feel a cross-reference to this thread is in order.

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moto

[motorollin]

Well "Only Amiga Makes It Possible" made it in to this thread, so I think this should too:

We Are Apple!

Hmmm, bit of a rip-off of Flashdance ;-)

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moto

[motorollin]

Pancake Honeybear Land sounds awesome.

[motorollin]

Yea, I imagine some care bears-esque land with lots of teeth-destroying sticky sweetness.

Yes, exactly!!! :lol: