FYI... Autistic people tend to think in complexities. 

Someone can ask us to do something seemingly straightforward, but our brains will often make it into something extremely complex and nuanced. 

We ask questions to untangle our thoughts. 

So, I wrote this a while ago, but I recently stumbled upon a research study that I think could explain why we do this... and I think some of you will find it interesting...

So, the research found that autistic brains have 50% more synapses than nonautistic brains... some of the autistic brains they looked at even had 2/3rds more synapses.

The explanation they gave for this is that in autistic brains, during development, there’s a slowdown in the natural pruning process... which is when the brain removes synapses it no longer needs.

One researcher who studies over-connectivity in the brain explained that...

With too many synapses, a “brain region that should be talking only to a select number of other regions is receiving irrelevant information from many others”...

So back to autistic people thinking in complexities and asking questions to untangle our thoughts... in my opinion, this is more than likely why. We just have too much information to parse through. And apparently, it’s a lot more than nonautistic people.

And I think this may also explain the research that found that autistic brains generate, on average, 42% more information at rest than nonautistic brains. Let me know if you’d like me to get into the details of that study as well.

I don’t know about you, but this study about synapse pruning explains a LOT to me about the way my brain processes and accesses information. Like a LOT a lot.

If you’re autistic, do you feel the same way?

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