Fruit Salad Analogy (Created by Polly Samuel (Donna Williams) Autism Consultant in 1995)
Well what more can I say Polly Samuel's (Donna Williams') analogy of Autism is fantastic it has answered a whole host of questions about how my Autistic mind works. As well as the names and meanings of all the different pieces of my Autism and how I'm affected by them. To Polly I will be forever grateful for her knowledge and helping me find my own "Fruit Salad". Polly I thank you. :-)
For more information on Polly Samuel's (Donna Williams') Fruit Salad Analogy
Semantic Agnosia (Meaning Blindness)(not recognising visual stimuli such as object, people or places by visuals alone need to use movement, tactile stimuli such as touching rubbing, sniffing, tapping for example)
Prosopagnosia (Face Blindness)(not "seeing" faces as a "whole" needs other cues such as the movement of the body and voice patterns to understand the who the person is)
Visual - Verbal Agnosia (reading text "without meaning" for example once functional speech was acquired I could read streams of text but on a "surface level" much like written echolalia)
Colour Agnosia (Recognise red with "meaning" this means that I can see comparisons in hue and contrast but sometimes struggle to name other colours)
Pain Agnosia(not perceiving pain or trauma that has been inflicted on the body this relates to self-injurious behaviors that I displayed in my teenage years)
Finger Agnosia (Digit Blindness)(not perceiving my own fingers as a child this effected my motor coordination, lack of pointing and also my hand-writing in later years)
Dissociative Disorders - Recognised in 2012/Revised 2014
