Hi Tom.
i can understand my method seeming alien. As I said, I find it very
difficult to comprehend space, and will frequently walk into an object I've
previously seen or felt simply because I cannot judge spacially where it is.
I can't for instance judge when I'm upstairs in a building where I am in
relation to downstairs, and while I can just about cope with a grid, that is
only if I'm supposed to track one set of movements.
In pontes monopoly for example, I play entirely by numbers, and simply
remember that whites home board are squares 1-6, and blacks are 24-18, and
that when my checker reaches 12 on one side, it'll start counting down from
12 on the other side without any attempt to actually comprehend the over all
shape of the board.
In fairness though, this has helped with lots of things. For instance, in
mathematics, i was dire at any sort of spacial representation of information
in graphs or charts, much less area of shapes and objects, but I always did
extremely well if I just had the numbers of the equations to play with.
The same goes for chemistry, and indeed the same goes for words and music,
because I'm not relient upon spacial information I simply match the colours
and sensations I experience to the concepts or notes involved, rather than
trying to map them onto a physical object such as a musical stave or a
particular spacial representation such as a diagram, (it always got on my
nerves when people used diagrams, even when they explained what they meant,
sinse I found it much easier to understand the bare essentials of the
concept than the diagram).
I actually think in some ways it's been helpful, or at least it's what has
given me the relation I have to words and music, that I run straight from my
own experienced, abstract, roar synaesthesic impressions and visualizations,
rather than mapping them onto some external system based in space.
but this is getting close to a discussion of functionalism and phenomenology
so I'll stop.
Basically my lack of spacial ability is like any other disability, because
it's something I've had to live without, I've improved in other areas, -----
though I don't think spacial disability is too disabling owing to the fact
that there isn't too much it actually and directly stops me doing with a
similar amount of ease as someone with normal spacial perceptions. There are
one or two things, but certainly not many.
All the best,
Dark.
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