Reframing Rumination and Procrastination. It's Spatial Giftedness

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It's the 20th episode of The Gifted Neurodivergent Podcast. Yay!!! (Excessive Self Back Patting Session.) Alright, enough of that, now onto the podcast topic.

"In this episode, I reframe the negative perspectives we have been told about procrastination and rumination. I have been told for most of my life that it was some moral failing that caused this in me. More recently, other theories came up that this was emotionally driven, as if my emotions were the issue. I don't believe any of it, not even for one moment. Why? Because my brain simply sees this as an extension of my spatial giftedness. 

You know the saying: the simplest reason is the most likely one. Here, then, is the simplest reason. My brain is spatially gifted. Because of this, I see many perspectives. My brain creates complex patterns of people and my interactions with them in multiple dimensions—as many dimensions as I have sensing. I know that my ruminating is my brain adding my sensing data to the memory of the initial interaction I had. I know because my sensitive brain is aware of the memory as the extra data is added. I can watch my memories become more complete while I gain a deeper understanding of the context of the interaction. Procrastination is the other side of the same spatial giftedness coin. Procrastination is my way of creating with those multiple perspectives that I have stored as patterns. Everything I have ever created, I first modeled in my mind's eyes before I created it in real life. That does not mean I don't also learn while I create in real life. It just means I do it in both manners. 

Are you like me? Could your understanding of your spatial giftedness reflect mine?
Find out when you listen to this podcast." 

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