Yeah. I had a similar idea, that autism spectrum stuff comes from a person’s internal “volume knobs” being turned to the wrong positions. Some things are too quiet to notice, while others are so loud that it turns into a kind of wailing feedback, like from a too loud microphone. And maybe some of it is fixable with exposure training, but not everything and not easily.
EDIT: Maybe an even better metaphor is the “impulse response” from signal processing, which encapsulates volume, damping and feedback—how long and how loud the object will vibrate in response to each specific frequency.
Yeah. I had a similar idea, that autism spectrum stuff comes from a person’s internal “volume knobs” being turned to the wrong positions. Some things are too quiet to notice, while others are so loud that it turns into a kind of wailing feedback, like from a too loud microphone. And maybe some of it is fixable with exposure training, but not everything and not easily.
EDIT: Maybe an even better metaphor is the “impulse response” from signal processing, which encapsulates volume, damping and feedback—how long and how loud the object will vibrate in response to each specific frequency.