Spotting Autism in Adults - Common Signs and Traits of Autistic Adults

[Jonn]

This video might provide some insight about autism to neurotypicals.
I can relate to most of what he says.

 

[Neri]

I like Orion. He's funny and raw. My style of human. I relate to him loads. He's an Aussie too and I'm pretty sure he's a fellow Victorian (I recently moved back to my birth city, Melbourne) and I have fantasised about bumping into Orion or meeting him at an event but you never know with us Autists, whether they might want to meet another one of us IRL.

 

[Judge]

Brilliant. He hits on so many points that I've wanted to explain, but for some reason just didn't have the right words.

Thanks for sharing, @Jonn.

 

[RemyZee]

Good description. Only thing I can't relate to is his generalization about autism as always having a component of uber logical, literal and Spock-Like rationale: I know many autistic people who are wildly creative. The rest of his descriptions are spot on.

 

[Judge]

Good description. Only thing I can't relate to is his generalization about autism as always having a component of uber logical, literal and Spock-Like rationale: I know many autistic people who are wildly creative.

I like to think I possess both of those qualities. They're not mutually exclusive.

 

[RemyZee]

Yep they can go together, even be the same thing. I visualize creativity as strands or threads, and behind them there is logic that holds it together. I'm one of those people who always saw myself as not logical at all, and I've always been about creativity, but lately I regard them as one in the same. They are both generative.

 

[Jonn]

Good description. Only thing I can't relate to is his generalization about autism as always having a component of uber logical, literal and Spock-Like rationale: I know many autistic people who are wildly creative. The rest of his descriptions are spot on.

He does make a distinction, implicitly referring to the "Autistic Bell Curve".