New on here from the UK I love numbers and words.

[Coppo]

Hello

60 years old autistic from the UK been told I should try to converse with other autistic people, how the hell do you make friends without running away from life/people.
I’m a compulsive counter, always doing mental arithmetic in my head, always have, working out times tables, anything associated with numbers, road signs, car number plates, phone numbers.
Making words up, putting 2 words together to make a word or adapting existing words and altering to make another one.

Anyone else on here similar obsession?

 

[tree]

 

[Jumpinbare]

Hello

60 years old autistic from the UK been told I should try to converse with other autistic people, how the hell do you make friends without running away from life/people.
I’m a compulsive counter, always doing mental arithmetic in my head, always have, working out times tables, anything associated with numbers, road signs, car number plates, phone numbers.
Making words up, putting 2 words together to make a word or adapting existing words and altering to make another one.

Anyone else on here similar obsession?

So, are we twins, born to different mothers 7 years apart?

I created a language for a novel I wrote so the characters wouldn't be speaking gibberish. So I guess you can say I like to play with words. And numbers - we all do that, right?

 

[the_tortoise]

 

[WhitewaterWoman]

Hello and welcome.

 

[Aspychata]

Okay, l hate that l can be so obsessive about numbers. I had a waitress rip me off of the amount she rung up. When my cash total was out of her exact amount, l told my manager. Because l balance out to the exact penny in my cash drawer. Numbers are a language for those who know.
Like l looked thru a solid sheet of transactions and picked out her entry out of 60 transactions.

 

[Captain Caveman]

Also from the UK but I think in pictures instead, so maths is a bit hit and miss. I either do awfully if I have to deep think as I have to think in patterns of dots, or if I can "Surface think" I do well. Last maths exam I had 100%. English.. Vocabulary is limited and other languages don't compute. But my Mum is the opposite as she thinks in words and has to write her maths down in word form to understand it.

So I will be doing maths like this in my head...

6x6=36

::: x ::: = ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: :::

Where I will then have to imagine the dots in picture form and then individually count dots (I imagine patterns of dots like on dominoes or dice, and the patterns then have to be converted on different levels in my mind as they are not always on base 10 before I count them. I was fine until I had to do various letters into maths as well where I could not think in letters and had to hold the letters as numbers so I could turn them into layers of dots), my Mum does maths in written English form in her mind such as:

Six times six equals... (And she would work it out in word form though I am not sure how).

To think in numbers is interesting! I can picture numbers in my mind where 8 is yellow, 1 is usually orange etc, but I can't add them up in number form other than in scripted knowledge because one can recall the outcomes without working it out?

The mind is an interesting thing!

 

[Alexej]

HI and Welcome @Coppo
THere are a numer of UK folk in here.

I too find myself often counting things as I shop of are out walking etc.

 

[Rodafina]

Hello and welcome, @Coppo.

Do you like using words and numbers to play games? That's what some of our threads are about in the Forum Games section - having fun with words and numbers in a casual way.