FoxLovinPat
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So I've been wondering about this recently about the so called "hyer" they aspies/autists are supposed to have and how exactly it works.
Like is it as I've always suspected, where it only really applies to special interests or can those on the spectrum hyper focus on anything if they put their minds to it?
Or does it depend on the individual, what with it being a spectrum and no two ASDers being the same?
The reason I'm wondering this is to do with my schooling experience, which I've been meaning to post a thread on here about but I haven't gotten around to it yet.
But that aside for now, essentially my father seemed to think that I could just employ my "Aspie hyperfocus" on anything, specifically school related things like studying and homework and what not. He's be like "C'mon son you've got the gift of that Asperger's hyper focus! Use it to help you study!" but alas I never could use it in that way, only really seemed to be my special interests I'd hyperfocus on.
I guess that should tell me that it isn't something that can be used for anything but I know I've always wondered if I could've used it for that but just didn't know how to.
But since I've been thinking on that period of my past lately I've gone back to wondering anyhow the hyperfocus actually works, if it is just a special interests only thing or not.
Perhaps an explanation would help, though I imagine most of you probably got a picture already.
But I mean where you get so focused on something you tune everything else out and it's hard to reach you in that state, hard to pull you out of it, almost like you're in some sorta trance. If any of that makes sense to any of you.
That's what my father seemed to think I could apply to studying, but it just never triggered for me no matter what. I don't even know if it would've done me much good even if I could've because there probably would still be the deficiencies, such as the ones I had with math. At least I know now, thanks to my therapist, that my problems with math (no pun intended) were to do with being autistic not laziness.
Like is it as I've always suspected, where it only really applies to special interests or can those on the spectrum hyper focus on anything if they put their minds to it?
Or does it depend on the individual, what with it being a spectrum and no two ASDers being the same?
The reason I'm wondering this is to do with my schooling experience, which I've been meaning to post a thread on here about but I haven't gotten around to it yet.
But that aside for now, essentially my father seemed to think that I could just employ my "Aspie hyperfocus" on anything, specifically school related things like studying and homework and what not. He's be like "C'mon son you've got the gift of that Asperger's hyper focus! Use it to help you study!" but alas I never could use it in that way, only really seemed to be my special interests I'd hyperfocus on.
I guess that should tell me that it isn't something that can be used for anything but I know I've always wondered if I could've used it for that but just didn't know how to.
But since I've been thinking on that period of my past lately I've gone back to wondering anyhow the hyperfocus actually works, if it is just a special interests only thing or not.
Perhaps an explanation would help, though I imagine most of you probably got a picture already.
But I mean where you get so focused on something you tune everything else out and it's hard to reach you in that state, hard to pull you out of it, almost like you're in some sorta trance. If any of that makes sense to any of you.
That's what my father seemed to think I could apply to studying, but it just never triggered for me no matter what. I don't even know if it would've done me much good even if I could've because there probably would still be the deficiencies, such as the ones I had with math. At least I know now, thanks to my therapist, that my problems with math (no pun intended) were to do with being autistic not laziness.