What is that one thing all of us share? From being on this forum and just looking around at my family it sometimes seems like there is nothing any of us share other than a label. So is there a common shared trait and what is it? I feel like I am simply operating with a brain set at a different tempo than most everyone else. I think autistics all are operating on their own individual tempo from not only "NTs" but each other as well. It's like most of society is Adagio and I'm set at more of a Largo. (Not so sure about that example because I had to look up tempo and find names for different ones. I am not a music person other than just casually listening and playing around with an uke.) Toss in everything else that makes up our personality and we are a peculiar group of peculiar people. Anyhoo, I think having a rare, odd brain tempo from most everyone else is what the essence of autism is but that's just a thought of course. Curious if anyone else had a better more coherent idea.