“Autistic people are bottom-up thinkers”

I’ve seen a lot of people saying this recently, and I think what this actually means is getting lost in translation.

So I’m going to explain what bottom-up processing is by explaining what’s actually happening in the brain and why...

I think what most people are missing when talking about autistic people being bottom-up thinkers is that it’s not a processing delay even though it looks like one.

Which is a big problem…

There’s an extremely common misconception that autistic people need to be right.

And I want to explain why this is a wildly inaccurate understanding of the internal autistic experience...

OK, let’s talk about what bottom-up processing has to do with a person correcting others...

Let’s talk about why autistic people struggle with multiple choice testing and what it has to do with bottom-up processing…

Autistic people are more susceptible to gaslighting and I want to talk about why...