Bottom-up thinking or bottom-up processing is common way for autistics to process information. It’s wired into our brains and affects EVERYTHING. How does this type of thinking affect doing improv scenes, especially when it comes to plots? In particular… when you weren’t expecting a plot, and suddenly things get plotty?
Bottom-up thinking affects how we follow sets, pull in information, process, and make decisions. So if we’re trying to follow plotlines but are focused on the details before the big plot picture… what happens now?
I talk about these things in this episode.
NICHE TOPICS! GRANULAR TOPICS! I GOT ‘EM!
Also I think I sound rather Canadian-accent in this episode! Nailed it, even, maybe?
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