Big Monitors Meet Little Monitors = Communication

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I recently added a site meter (basic) on my blog and its interesting to see some of the information it gathers. One bit I find really interesting is it captures the size of the viewer's monitor. My guess is that this information would be important for the webmaster to know to judge just how large he/she can make his/her website. The largest monitor visiting my site seems to be a 1920 x 1200 (5.4% of visits) but the vast majority are using small screen sizes (1024 x 768). There is a mixture of all types of monitors viewing this website. Some are small, some are large, some are in between, and then some (not any viewing this website) apparently are huge.

I have a huge monitor (30"). I tried building another site using my monitor as a guide. I got feedback that the blog was too slow to load and not being a webmaster extraordinaire, I suffered weeks of just trying to figure out why everyone's computer was so slow. Turns out, the website I was building caused many computers to crash and it was perhaps because the monitor/video card they were using couldn't handle the WIDE, and I mean WIDE pages that were so easy for me to load because my monitor resolution is 2560 x 1600.

Moral of the story is that what was easy for me was hard for others and I had to meet halfway to communicate. If we could all communicate by meeting the other person half way, life would be so much easier. Many people, both neurotypical and autistic, often fail to meet each other half way. As I express better in video than I do in words, I give you this example of a means of communication that can be easily met half way:

Comments

[Ms. Clark]

Here's another video that I'm glad to see again. :-) I think it makes an obviously valid point that many people don't seem to have even thought about. There's more than one way to "skin a cat."

[Ed]

I think what you said about meeting people half way is very true and important to remember.

I like this video a lot too. It says something very important about different ways that people people communicate.

If what is considered a communication handicap by most of the people in someones environment is severe enough and/or it is important enough to the person with what is considered the handicap and those in their environment, I think that everyone learns methods of communicating and exchanging messages that they had never thought of before. People often also learn a lot that they do that they refer to as communication that really doesn't convey any message that they want to really focus on or have as a priority in their life.

By this process that stems from need and desire, everyone becomes a better at communication with the one originally considered handicapped and with others as well. Then a handicap becomes a tool for making something better rather than a burden that must be endured.

[Rose]

I'm being ridiculous, but if it hadn't been trained out, would the mouth be a fair indicator of mood/intent/etc?

While one can look to the eyes, a smile means more to me...

[Rose]

I'm being ridiculous, but if it hadn't been trained out, would the mouth be a fair indicator of mood/intent/etc?

While one can look to the eyes, a smile means more to me...

[suzanne]

Absolutely Right Moral of the story is that what was easy for me was hard for others and I had to meet halfway to communicate. If we could all communicate by meeting the other person half way, life would be so much easier.
My family has 4 distinct personalities (5 with the dog), but understanding and compromising to meet each other half-way is the biggest reason we happily coexist.
As far as eye-contact goes, I catch Ezra looking for me to look him in the eye. I'm working on it, but mainly because he wants it.

[LeaEdinburgh]

A very inspiring film on a topic very much related. Read my lips by
Jacques Audiard

France/ Canada

Writers:Jacques Audiard (writer)
Tonino Benacquista (writer)

Genre:Crime | Drama | Thriller more
Plot:She is almost deaf and she lip-reads. He is an ex-convict. She wants to help him. He thinks no one can help except himself. Crush | Deafness | Hearing Impaired more
Awards:7 wins & 12 nominations more
User Comments:A Breath of French Air