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[feotakahari]

Thinking some more about my visual processing thing. My mother is much better at finding lost items than I am, and I think it’s because I’m not really looking at them. It’s more like I’m fact-checking. Are the keys on the bed? No. Are the keys on the nightstand? No. And then I walk right past the keys on the chair, because I didn’t think to check that fact.

But other people talk about not seeing lost items, and it sounds like they’re doing the same fact-checking thing I am. So what if there’s not a binary difference between people like me and people with proper visual processing? What if lots of people process visual information the way I do sometimes, and I’m just stuck in that mode more often than they are?

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[lb_lee]

I don't know if this happens to you, but I also get tripped up because I remember the lost item incorrectly. (The pepper grinder most especially; I can't remember if it's tan or black, only that it's NOT the one I think it is, meaning I overlook it every time because it doesn't fit my mental pattern recognition.)

Miranda

[feotakahari]

That used to happen to me after I traded cars with my mother. I could never remember which car I was looking for in the parking lot.

[lb_lee]

Oh no, that would be so much worse! Especially since so many cars look alike...

Miranda