Tag: working memory
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Beyond Awareness: Exploring Your Autistic Profile and Identity – Part 2
For those of you who are visual thinkers, it may be helpful to imagine the executive functions as senior staff responsible for managing a large company. Senior staff delegate and plan tasks for a business, in a similar way to how executive functioning skills enable us as individuals to plan, organise and ultimately carry out…
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Tendrils and Stacks: Assisting Flow States with a Clipboard Manager
In our highly monotropic family, we humorously but also seriously say, “Stop yanking my tendrils!” when someone crashes our stack during high memory state zone work. Interruptions are very dysregulating when they pull us out of an attention tunnel. “Tendrils” comes from “Tendril Theory”. When I’m focused on something My mind sends out a million…
