Published on 12, July, 2020
Hi All!
I'm genuinely curious to hear what you think is the positive side of your diagnoses of Autism (or ADHD; or Autism and ADHD together). There's a lot of difficulties online but I'm also really fascinated by how differently we can see the world and the benefits of that.
Here's a couple of examples from me!
I don't get socially awkward very easily when there is clear justification for my actions. As an example, if my partner and I go out to eat and they receive food that they didn't order or doesn't match up to what they ordered (it could be they ordered crispy pizza with pepper and the dough isn't crispy and there are onions instead) they would feel awkward about bringing it to the attention of the server whereas I feel very, very comfortable with doing this (politely of course). The chef has broken the rules, this is not what we paid for and ordered, therefore they should rectify it and we have nothing to be worried about - therefore I don't worry. This also spreads to other social situations too.
I'm also very, very good at making quick connections between things and solving problems. I intuitively seem to find the relationship between things or find answers for problems. As a silly example, we needed to buy a new frying pan online that was the same size as our old one. However, we couldn't find our ruler or tape measure to check the actual measurements. But, I did have a lined A4 notebook. I looked up the standard sizes for the line spacings of the notebook and used the lines to the measure the frying pan which then gave me a very close approximation of the size. This took me mere seconds to come up with.
Please let me know yours!
One I've not seen on here yet but which works for me is my attention to detail and process oriented thinking mean I am great for producing step-by-step documention and guides.
I produced hundreds of these for the IT dept I worked in over the last 6 years and reviewed many more done by others. I made sure there were no steps missed out, that everything followed the standards guide and that everything was maintained.
It is surprising how much people tend to assume you know how to do stuff when they write a guide. Big chunks of the process were missing or a sweeping assumption were made (along the lines of the old car maintenance manual note of "now remove the engine from the car" without the 200 preceeding steps needed).
This meant when we had any staff changes then new staff could get very effective with being able to use the comprehensive guide set available.