> "his brain is inherently different" I like to describe it as though the part of my brain that would normally be processing one type of signal seems like it's

> "his brain is inherently different" I like to describe it as though the part of my brain that would normally be processing one type of signal seems like it's been repurposed to process something different [0]. Social signals are incredibly difficult, but I can navigate complex structures in 3D space (think: levels in Descent or similar video games) easily. My son doesn't make eye contact, but he's 4 years old and can do fraction calculations in his head that my 10 year old students struggled with. [0] note that I'm not claiming a specific physical mechanism, just describing how it feels -- things other people find easy I find incredibly challenging and vice versa, as if they have a dedicated brain-area for task X and I have one for task Y.