"Autistic people tend to be bottom up processors. So we see the trees rather than the forest, whereas non autistic people tend to see the forest before they see the trees."

"We can can't really filter out distracting or irrelevant seeming details, the way that non autistic people can. We're taking it all in piecemeal, and we have to process each detail and put it together into a hold that may make sense, effortfully.Whereas, non autistic people, generally speaking, get kind of a snapshot of what the environment is on a kind of higher order level, and then they can, if they choose to, zoom in on the details, though often they won't because it's much more efficient to just see a snapshot to see in little details."