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What I’m hearing is that years of improv classes, telling me to avoid asking questions but instead yes-and to establish facts, has made me autistic?


I think your comment is meant to be silly/funny. I will answer as if you were serious :P

To clarify what I understood from the article:

Autism is independent of cognitive mapping based communication styles, but it definitely makes difficulties in communication more intense especially when all communication styles are lumped into the same bucket. When considering neurotypical people, the way language is processed (left brian vs right brain) is often based on the "default" for the language. Here is an oversimplification of two languages, but the "default" seems to fit:

- American Sign Language is a visual and idea based language that tends to have more "weaver" right brain, "no point" communications. The Grammar focuses on "what and How".

- English is a auditory and command based language that tends to have more "concluder" left brain, "get to the point" communications. The grammar focues on "Who did it and why"

Improv classes increase "creative pathways" in the right brain. Others who are more right brained, may engage in "planning and resource allocation classes" to stimulate language usage in the left brain. Ability to "get to the point" and ability to "creatively improv" are both crucial skills, and by default as we speak english, the average person in class may need more "improv" classes to be successful. (you are an individual and not equal to "average", so this doesn't quite apply to you)


I thought the left brain/right brain gibberish was debunked years ago.


If you're curious, a book The Master and His Emissary by Ian McGilchrist goes over many of the differences in "personality" of each hemisphere which is not as simple of a divide as is commonly heard. It is not so much a logic vs. feeling/art split but maybe more of an isolation/abstraction vs. broad/networked default mode for each.


The gibberish was dubunked, correct.

The neuroscience, which is nuanced and complex, continues to prove valid. Our two hemispheres process the world differently.




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