How do you relate to patterns?

[RemyZee]

The whole thing about autism and patterns. Do you notice, think in, exist in, have memories of patterns and how they go together? Do you see them in systems environments people? Are there patterns that annoy you? Make you happy? Have meaning to you? Is it a stereotype that autistic people notice them while others don't? paaaaaa-terns.

 

[velociraptor]

Everything is patterns.

 

[the_tortoise]

I absolutely notice patterns...it is how I learned how to read sheet music for piano without vocabulary for anything and almost no explicit teaching...I still lack vocabulary for most music things.

Pattern-matching is fundamental to my thoughts. Although a lot of the pattern-thinking/matching/recognition just sort of happens in the background, I don't look for patterns and I couldn't tell you how it works ...its just sort of happens without a lot of conscious manifestation in my typical "mental
virtual reality" (basically "mind's eye" but broader).

 

[grommet]

The whole thing about autism and patterns. Do you notice, think in, exist in, have memories of patterns and how they go together? Do you see them in systems environments people? Are there patterns that annoy you? Make you happy? Have meaning to you? Is it a stereotype that autistic people notice them while others don't? paaaaaa-terns.

My whole life is patterns. Everything I do. I see patterns everywhere. I look for them, I try to understand them. Many are too complex to do that. All my daily activities are patterns. I feel very wrong if a pattern is not there. Like the world does not make sense, something is missing.

 

[Jumpinbare]

Agreed. The essence of learning for me is finding the patterns.

 

[TBRS1]

I see patterns so well that I see them in random events.

 

[Grondhammar]

*looks up from drawing finger-lines on the desk because I just noticed there's a symmetry to the wood grain that matches the light fixture*

Sorry, what did you say?

 

[717]

I notice patterns a lot, and I feel really good when I do...

Look at the times you post, there is a pattern there too lol.

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[Neonatal RRT]

Pattern recognition is a great asset for myself at work... X-ray, ultrasound, CT, MRI interpretation... to waveform graphics interpretation. Being able to look at HOW a person is breathing and associate it with HOW the gas is moving in and out, with a graphical representation... it is pretty cool. Fluidics of gas molecules within a mechanical ventilation circuit... and then within the lung... again, really cool to study. Then, I love nature, as well... and nature is just full of patterns from how the veins in leaves form, to mycelial networks, to how shells of sea creatures are formed, and so on. I also have played around with sound waves and grains of sand form different patterns at different frequencies. Electromagnetic frequencies can make different patterns with iron filings. I even found it effects how modern internal combustion engines and electric motors are tuned for peak performance.

 

[are]

The whole thing about autism and patterns. Do you notice, think in, exist in, have memories of patterns and how they go together? Do you see them in systems environments people? Are there patterns that annoy you? Make you happy? Have meaning to you? Is it a stereotype that autistic people notice them while others don't? paaaaaa-terns.

This is a good question. I kind of live in patterns. Like systems. Everything is this representation of the world as I see it. I'm constantly pattern matching -- noticing patterns in the world -- and then comparing that to my mental pattern matches. I literally am patterns I feel like sometimes. Like that's my whole mind is just this set of ideas that are connected. There's no emotional narrative layer. Where i think "I am x" or "I should do y". It's just like strategies or frameworks that I'm executing based on patterns.

 

[Dagan]

Ditto. Everything is patterns.

Music. Film plots. Architecture. Weather. Clothing styles. Hair styles. Etc.

 

[are]

i've called it analytical violence all the way down. Because the way I experience it you almost expect to find something else. Some persistent emotional self. But it's just not there. God is a concept. Death is neutral in and of itself. I don't get angry at people I only get angry at systems. And every piece of detail in my life is broken apart and fit into my systems.
IDK. I don't see it as bad. I thought that was a way that kind of describes it though for me. Analytical violence all the way down.

 

[Judge]

Guilty as charged.

 

[Roisin]

The patterns I notice are mostly social or natural.
I used to think the patterns were noticable to me because of hypervigilence or strong empathy. Although there are overlaps, these didn't fully explain this experience of knowing or intuition I have about people or situations.
Sometimes I'm blindsided, but it's rare when I'm well, and the only time I doubt my intuition these days is when I'm anxious.

 

[Levelskid]

Seeing patterns is how my brain operates, especially when it comes to stuff like architecture, and behavioral patterns.

 

[Grondhammar]

... Although there are overlaps, these didn't fully explain this experience of knowing or intuition I have about people or situations.
Sometimes I'm blindsided, but it's rare when I'm well, and the only time I doubt my intuition these days is when I'm anxious.

Seeing patterns is how my brain operates, especially when it comes to ... behavioral patterns.

The link between (sub- or semi-conscious) pattern recognition and social intuition, or maybe intuition generally, is something I hadn't considered but that makes absolutely perfect sense. I think there's a lot that could be said/researched about that, very interesting.

 

[Outdated]

Pattern recognition is one of the reasons I was so successful in life - my ideals of success, not everyone else's. I often see patterns that others don't notice and this gives me advantages over others in many areas. Where you see a pattern you can preempt if not predict what's going to happen next.

It's the most important tool for any predator, why waste all that energy chasing your food if you can just sit and wait where you know it's going to be. I think it also ties in with the way we see faces and living shapes in many inanimate objects, a part of our mind using known patterns to try and filter out camouflage, the ability to spot hidden prey and other predators. This all happens subconsciously of course, it's not something we think about, it's just what our brain does by itself.

 

[are]

Pattern recognition is one of the reasons I was so successful in life - my ideals of success, not everyone else's. I often see patterns that others don't notice and this gives me advantages over others in many areas. Where you see a pattern you can preempt if not predict what's going to happen next.

It's the most important tool for any predator, why waste all that energy chasing your food if you can just sit and wait where you know it's going to be. I think it also ties in with the way we see faces and living shapes in many inanimate objects, a part of our mind using known patterns to try and filter out camouflage, the ability to spot hidden prey and other predators. This all happens subconsciously of course, it's not something we think about, it's just what our brain does by itself.

Yes exactly. For me it is my tool. I use this kind of semantic web building to approach everything in life because it just works. When a lot of things don't. But this does! Thank god.