Jan Coffey wrote:
>
> --- Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Jan Coffey wrote:
> >
> > > Everyone (not just those with aus etc.) are effected by foods. it's not
> > just
> > > autistic kids who get high off of bread. It's just that the autistics are
> > > more dialed in, more granular, more sensative.
> >
> > Granular?
> >
> > I'm not sure what you mean by this in this sentence.
> >
>
> More detailed or granular sense. I'm not sure what you don't understand.
> Autistics are often capable of telling much finer differrences. The idea is
> that such people might have dificulty teling the difference between stemuli
> at a larger granularity becouse their "sweet spot" is gaged much finer. If
> most people could not see green and but you could, you would have a more
> granular sense than they. You might also have difficulty nameing which colour
> yellowish blue or bluish yellow is. Although if you get very specific this
> example is not consistent with the way humans see colour, it is the simplest
> way to describe the consept.
OK, now it makes sense to me. Thank you for the explanation!
Julia
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