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Hey my mom can't walk and drink at the same time, but I can read and walk, so it's not like our brains are all hardwired the same way. I think there are mental things you can multi-focus if you have multiple methods of learning. Like there are some things I learn best by writing/reading others by listening/talking, so I can literally combine two academic subjects if they are two subjects I have to approach in different ways. Conversely some things require so much focus of me I can't even listen to music. At least (in short bursts) I'm so focused I can for the most part not daydream. Also I can play my flute and read...ya know, assuming I know my music and don't have to look at that. Although I guess that makes sense, I mean I'm used to reading music, I'm always reading while playing anyhow.

See I have no sense of direction, so I can't think in that way at all, I guess that's why grids aren't of much interest to me. I know left and right (and even those took me a LONG time). xd

I can listen, if it's I have to try and respond then I'm in trouble. I guess because responding requires my attention in the present, which takes my focus off my reading. But I can listen and my brain can store it and process it later. I guess the only problem is if I'm overly interested, then I stop reading and start daydreaming. That's more likely to happen to me with certain music though than with people. Poor people, I ignore them. xd

See I know R/L based on my own orientation, and that's why it's easier. If I'm facing a different way I expect north to be a different way, and it's not. I very much think front, back, right, left. Everything rotates to my orientation and I know which direction to go accordingly. However I did have a hard time learning R/L at first, and the only way I remembered for the longest time was by remembering back to my preschool tap dance class and imagining myself there, which direction had been right and left. Very bizarre. I suppose the easiest thing would have been to just do the L thing (making L's with your finger, the one that is backwards is right, the proper L is left), but I don't think I was aware of that as a kid.

Hmm, I think the fact that I don't have a visual imagination could have something to do with the fact that their isn't a hierarchy of visual over audio. I have to concentrate to actual imagine something (which still isn't quite visual), so I can choose what to focus on. I also think it's a lot easier for me to focus on visual over aural because I can already see the visual, the imaginative process is already partially done. The aural I'd have to create it myself, which is more difficult, and thus easier to back burner.

I think that's why I'm better at puzzle games than games with a world layout. It's easier to figure out where I'm going when I only have to go right/left/up/down, rather than navigate a map (like unfortunately in my favorite game). Ah if only the world would turn with me. xd

Sometimes I can't filter it out, but usually that's indicative of a more general concentration/focus problem. If I am in the right mood to focus then I'm in the right mood to ignore everything else.

Yea a grid game is fine, because again if it's a grid N/S/E/W is the exact same as Front/Back/Right/Left. But when it's a more "realistic" terrain, I can't place myself in it well enough to navigate direction (and I find first person view harder not easier to deal with in games, the perspective/proportions just aren't right), I think that'd be the same problem for you though. It's hard to place yourself into the viewpoint of a world you aren't in. So it all depends on how the visual is presented regardless of how you orient yourself.

I can usually find something once I've found it once, but it'll take me forever to find things the first time most of the time.

I'm still good at those. Even in a games I have a good sense of I was here. It's just finding here before I was there that's the tricky part. xd