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The book the reason i jump7/1/2023 Every single thing has its own unique beauty. When a colour is vivid or a shape is eye-catching, then that’s the detail that claims our attention, and then my heart kind of drowns in it, and we can’t concentrate on anything else. What part of the whole image captures our eyes first depends on a number of things. But for autistic people, the details jump straight out at us first of all, and then only gradually, detail by detail, does the whole image sort of float up into focus. When you see an object, it seems that you see it as an entire thing first, and only afterwards do its details follow on. Really, our vision of the world can be incredible, just incredible…You might reply, “But the eyes we all use to look at things work the same way, right?” Fair enough, you may be looking at the exact same things as us, but how we perceive them appears to be different. So how do people with autism see the world, exactly? Us, and only us, can ever know the answer to that one! Sometimes I actually pity you for not being able to see the beauty of the world in the same way we do. When you look at something, what do you see first? Variation, Alexej von Jawlensky, 1916 From Asymptote:
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