Cognitive Inflexibility: Welcome To The Dumpster Fire
Cognitive Inflexibility: Welcome to the Dumpster Fire 🔥
Ever have one unfinished task, unexpected change, or problem that your brain simply refuses to let go of? Welcome to the dumpster fire.
In this episode of The Autistic Mile, Jim and Shane dive into cognitive inflexibility—what happens when the autistic brain gets stuck on a task, thought, plan, or problem and changing direction feels almost impossible.
We explore executive function, the Zeigarnik Effect, working memory, inhibitory control, rumination, and why sometimes the smartest move is to stop digging deeper into the rabbit hole and…
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