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It said too many local connections, not enough long range connections, ie get stuck on details and no big picture. It's pretty close to what I know as autism, but in medical jargon. It doesn't state an important known part though, in that autistic left/right hemisphere utilization is the opposite of a normal brain. Normal is something like 45 left/55 right, autistic is 55 left/45 right. If you'll notice, autism causes issues with all skills considered to be right brain (language, emotions, spatial, etc)...
tl;dr overthink step 1, forgot step 2 though 9, last step failed, meltdown
I wonder what that means for left handed autists.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-asymmetric-brain/202212/left-handedness-and-neurodiversity-a-surprising-link
"The researchers found that individuals on the autism spectrum were 2.49 times more likely to be left-handed than people without autism. Altogether, about 28 percent of individuals on the autism spectrum were left-handed as compared to about 10 percent in the general population."