Maybe so, but then this would be the only area where I have a highly-developed theory of mind. If you’ll ask the people who have seen me post for a while, the consensus is that this is where I’m most lacking. They don’t typically put it in terms of a theory of mind, but one complaint about me can be expressed as, “he doesn’t adequately anticipate how others will react to what he does”—which amounts to the saying I lack a good theory of mind (which is a common characteristic of autistics).
But that gives me an idea: maybe what’s unique about me is what I count as a genuine understanding. I don’t regard myself as understanding the material until I have “plugged it in” to the rest of my knowledge, so I’ve made a habit of ensuring that what I know in one area is well-connected to other areas, especially its grounding concepts. I can’t, in other words, compartmentalize subjects as easily.
(That would also explain what I hated about literature and, to a lesser extent, history—I didn’t see what they were building off of.)
Yes, I had that thought also but wasn’t sure how to put it. Frankly, I’m a bit surprised that you had that good a theory of mind for physics issues. Your hypothesis about plugging in seems plausible.
Maybe so, but then this would be the only area where I have a highly-developed theory of mind. If you’ll ask the people who have seen me post for a while, the consensus is that this is where I’m most lacking. They don’t typically put it in terms of a theory of mind, but one complaint about me can be expressed as, “he doesn’t adequately anticipate how others will react to what he does”—which amounts to the saying I lack a good theory of mind (which is a common characteristic of autistics).
But that gives me an idea: maybe what’s unique about me is what I count as a genuine understanding. I don’t regard myself as understanding the material until I have “plugged it in” to the rest of my knowledge, so I’ve made a habit of ensuring that what I know in one area is well-connected to other areas, especially its grounding concepts. I can’t, in other words, compartmentalize subjects as easily.
(That would also explain what I hated about literature and, to a lesser extent, history—I didn’t see what they were building off of.)
Yes, I had that thought also but wasn’t sure how to put it. Frankly, I’m a bit surprised that you had that good a theory of mind for physics issues. Your hypothesis about plugging in seems plausible.