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4 transcript-backed records
01 / evaluation
“English orthography is so difficult that typical children take an extra year or so to learn it because it’s wacky.”
02 / evaluation
“How it’s atypical, in my view, involves what I’ve called cognitive versatility and less mandatory hierarchies in how the brain works, such that, for example, an autistic brain will consider more possibilities, will nonstrategically combine information across levels and scales without losing large parts of it, and so on.”
03 / evaluation
“We don’t know nearly enough about how any autistic strength in processing information evolves over time.”
04 / evaluation
“They do not use narratives to edit things, to organize things. And that means that they perform very differently on episodic memory tasks and in related tests that require people to organize information into common or popular narratives.”