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Creative or Low EQ & Logical?

Seanado

I have noticed that some of my fellow autistics describe themselves in terms of 'creative' or 'empathetic'.

I do not share the creative trait, at least not in visual terms.

I am highly logical and I score very low on the empathy scale (low EQ, which is considered a typical indicator for those on the autism spectrum).

Are you in the 'creative' camp or the 'low EQ' camp?

Are there two kinds of autistic? If not, then how do we reconcile the difference between the creatives and the low EQs?

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  • I scored low on the eq test too I'd say that I'm creative in the way I think I'm not an artist or anything like that I used to do a lot of photography and I'm pretty good at it but its not a passion.

    I'm good at solving problems and coming up with efficient ways of doing things and I see patterns in things that people don't see which is an autistic thing and ive been told that a lot by people who know me "how did you see/know that" etc etc.

    I wouldn't say I'm VERY logical maybe more than the average person but I am very analytical, I think people often get the two mixed up I look into things very deeply and I can pick out small details and study them but it doesn't mean that what I see/find is useful a lot of the time it isn't I just can't help it my brain picks things out that normal people don't and it's gotten me in situations where I've taken the complete wrong meaning of something and made look stupid, if you get what I mean.

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  • I scored low on the eq test too I'd say that I'm creative in the way I think I'm not an artist or anything like that I used to do a lot of photography and I'm pretty good at it but its not a passion.

    I'm good at solving problems and coming up with efficient ways of doing things and I see patterns in things that people don't see which is an autistic thing and ive been told that a lot by people who know me "how did you see/know that" etc etc.

    I wouldn't say I'm VERY logical maybe more than the average person but I am very analytical, I think people often get the two mixed up I look into things very deeply and I can pick out small details and study them but it doesn't mean that what I see/find is useful a lot of the time it isn't I just can't help it my brain picks things out that normal people don't and it's gotten me in situations where I've taken the complete wrong meaning of something and made look stupid, if you get what I mean.

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