Professional Autism Descriptions Vs Practical Examples ?

[RealisticRobin]

This made me laugh as I do it all the time. I did not realise it was an autistic trait though.

I am drawn immediately to the mistakes in things, whether written or spoken.

 

[the_tortoise]

I am drawn immediately to the mistakes in things, whether written or spoken.

Variant of pattern matching brain? (I have pattern matching brain)

Like...you instantly see inconsistencies that don't match the pattern your brain anticipates?

 

[RealisticRobin]

Variant of pattern matching brain? (I have pattern matching brain)

Like...you instantly see inconsistencies that don't match the pattern your brain anticipates?

It can be quite annoying as I cannot concentrate or absorb what something says/means. My brain just wants me to find mistakes!

Sometimes I can read something 10 times and still not get it.

 

[Masked Man]

I guess this is a trait I don't have to this extent. I notice differences/mistakes but I hold back saying anything because I know it's not the point that the speaker is trying to make.

 

[the_tortoise]

It can be quite annoying as I cannot concentrate or absorb what something says/means. My brain just wants me to find mistakes!

Sometimes I can read something 10 times and still not get it.

I guess this is a trait I don't have to this extent. I notice differences/mistakes but I hold back saying anything because I know it's not the point that the speaker is trying to make.

I notice patterns, but am lucky that it doesn't usually get applied to responding to errors in how people pronounce things, syntax, etc (I make a lot of them myself and don't notice until much later or never)...

I do think I upset people by questioning their internal logical consistency (this is a pattern matching thing the way I do it ... which is possibly part of why I am so easy to exploit and manipulate, and yet surprise people with "insight" that is really just noticing tiny little superficial i consistencies that give away more meaningful inconsistency -- that others apparently don't notice...and I dont usually even infer anything about the inconsistency, am just curious and confused. )

I don't do this to force people to refrain from holding or expressing contradictory/ ambivalent views or as any judgemental thing, though...(just as it sounds like @RealisticRobin doesnt mean to intentionally police anyone's pronunciations(?))

It is just that I get confused, and don't know what I am supposed to understand from the contradictory statements...I usually think I must have misunderstood or be missing a sort of "bridging" piece of the other person's statment or perspective....but people get upset with me so I don't know how I come across just that it is probably something like negatively judging or another kind of bad.

I also miss the point a lot. I think this is mostly because I miss a lot/most of what is not explicitly stated (unless it is something I am hypervigilant about)....and because I so often cannot translate the vague/abstract things to anything tangible and specific.But often it is because I am not merely "not on the same page"...but reading something in a different language, on a different subject, in a different library in a different country or possibly another planet...because of different worldview, life experience, priorities, cognitive style, and idiosyncracies.

 

[Masked Man]

I notice patterns, but am lucky that it doesn't usually get applied to responding to errors in how people pronounce things, syntax, etc (I make a lot of them myself and don't notice until much later or never)...

I do think I upset people by questioning their internal logical consistency (this is a pattern matching thing the way I do it ... which is possibly part of why I am so easy to exploit and manipulate, and yet surprise people with "insight" that is really just noticing tiny little superficial i consistencies that give away more meaningful inconsistency -- that others apparently don't notice...and I dont usually even infer anything about the inconsistency, am just curious and confused. )

I don't do this to force people to refrain from holding or expressing contradictory/ ambivalent views or as any judgemental thing, though...(just as it sounds like @RealisticRobin doesnt mean to intentionally police anyone's pronunciations(?))

It is just that I get confused, and don't know what I am supposed to understand from the contradictory statements...I usually think I must have misunderstood or be missing a sort of "bridging" piece of the other person's statment or perspective....but people get upset with me so I don't know how I come across just that it is probably something like negatively judging or another kind of bad.

I also miss the point a lot. I think this is mostly because I miss a lot/most of what is not explicitly stated (unless it is something I am hypervigilant about)....and because I so often cannot translate the vague/abstract things to anything tangible and specific.But often it is because I am not merely "not on the same page"...but reading something in a different language, on a different subject, in a different library in a different country or possibly another planet...because of different worldview, life experience, priorities, cognitive style, and idiosyncracies.

This makes sense to me, thanks

 

[UFO]

I either think of all the meanings I can imagine or I cannot think of any meanings at all.

Same. Worst of it is that I can't always prioritize associations. It takes an extra mental effort to think which branch of though is worth of following and which is not.

For example, when I am reading a text for an exam, I end up googling things that are not in a scope of the course, and don't even realize that and then I get anxious for "having so little time to prepare and not understanding a thing".

But I do seem to be able to valuate things in likely-unlikely -axis automatically when it comes to claims and theories.

Does these things apply to you (I mean, the_tortoise or anyone else) as well?

 

[Outdated]

But I do seem to be able to valuate things in likely-unlikely -axis automatically when it comes to claims and theories.

I relate to that, I see most things as being on sliding scales of probability. I'm not always right either, that's just the way my brain works.

 

[the_tortoise]

Does these things apply to you (I mean, the_tortoise or anyone else) as well

I think so, but am not sure...

Same. Worst of it is that I can't always prioritize associations. It takes an extra mental effort to think which branch of though is worth of following and which is not.

This I think I can relate to.

The words I have used for it that might describe the same thing are:

"I can sometimes think of many possibilities (for meaning, for intentions) but I cannot guess likelihood for any of them"