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If you can do it "not in real time" it means you could also get good enough at it to do it "in real time". I don't say that you should as you probably (assuming the best) are a great human being the way you are, and you shouldn't try be more like neurotypicals because other people tell you to. Or that you should be blamed for liking the way you are and preferring to stay this way.

But remember that the human brain is a wonderfully adaptive thing: neurotypicals can become more like you and you can become more like them (but they don't have to and you don't have to), so don't let the fact that someone "diagnosed" you one way FOOL YOU INTO BELIEVING THAT YOUR BRAIN IS NOT (ALMOST) INFINITELY ADAPTIVE! That's the greatest danger of diagnosing these things, it makes people forget about the IMENSE adaptive potential of their own mind (and this potential is universal, you could just as well use it to better undertand quantum mechanics as you could to "become" more like neurotypicals, your life, your choice!)



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