Better Wired Brains

[ysabetwordsmith]

Smart people may have brains that are better wired to work more effectively.  In other news, water is wet.

I'm still waiting for anyone else to notice that one of the options is simply not having all the human-standard factory junk in your head, thus leaving room for different stuff.  I don't have a fancy social wetware.  I have a linguistic coprocessor.  This pleases me.

Comments

[acelightning]

My broadest mental skill seems to be the ability to connect seemingly very dissimilar things; for example, I use the the same techniques to interpret both sewing patterns and circuit diagrams, I use plumbing supplies and/or Sugru for auto repairs, and sometimes cake decorating is a form of construction. I'm also dangerously curious about almost everything :-)

[cmcmck]

Who knew eh?

But then my brain wiring was weird from the get go! :o)

the sky is more than blue

[(Anonymous)]

...and my brain is not your brain. The social processing in my brain ignores the subtlety of nom-verbal social interaction and body language and also ignores the tone and facial expression that I produce.....this makes making friends in real life difficult to do.

wetware

[callibr8]

*ROTFL*

The usual two-edged sword... I don't have "factory standard" junk either, and I ducked out on a lot of the societal-constraint cr@p that most people are brainwashed into downloading, due to the combination of "foo [family of origin] goo" and other environmental factors.

Like ysabetwordsmith, I think that my brain works considerably more effectively than most other humans I've met, and I have a mounting body of evidence that says its clock speed is noticeably faster as well. There are downsides to this, but I'll keep the setup I have, and treasure it for the gift from the Universe, that it is.