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Pattern recognition/increased perception

Autismman

Hello there, just wondering if anyone wished to share their particular personal experiences with pattern recognition and what patterns they perceive more than “neurotypical” people. For me I make quick judgments of people based on catalogues of information I cannot consciously always pull from but it’s usually mostly correct. Is this a trauma response or am I going on like a mad hatter, please tell me if I am.  

P.S sorry if this is already a post/topic. 

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  • I worked for 4 decades in IT support in all levels and the use of pattern recognition is an incredibly useful part of the diagnostic process.

    Looking for what looks out of the normal in the logs of a computer gives a great deal of information to track down the things causing the issue that is being reported when someone is having computer problems.

    Seeing screenfuls of logs scrolling away and being able to spot certain codes in sequence so they can be zoomed into makes so much difference.

    Even running through various diagnostics and looking for anything slightly out of the ordinary also helps get to the root cause of the problem fast but it requites a lot of focus on little things going on on-screen and listening for little things like to cooling fan going faster, the cursor getting erratic of unusually slow response from the application.

    I guess AI will be able to do all this in due process. I was involved in training AI to take over my role when I retired so I have seen it in operation and it is scary.

    IT support is an area a lot of autists gravitate towards (possibly ironically as it is often unsuited to them) as it is both an entry level way into an IT career and a place where other IT teams dump staff into when they don't get on with them - or where some favourite of another senior manager asks for their offspring to be given a job in IT.

    The requirements of being often on the phone with people, having to interact with people routinely, dealing with upset or angry users and multitasking are all core requirements which are regularly things autists struggle with though.

    The attrition rate is therefore quite high as autists cannot hack the requirements and it unfortunately makes them therefore unreliable to hire.

  • in reply to Iain

    That's the Hobson's choice; we face. It was as if we were intentionally designed to be Geeky. Thinking

  • in reply to Desmond1979
    Desmond1979 said:
    It was as if we were intentionally designed to be Geeky

    Divine design or evolution - either way I embraced it and used to be in my element almost feeling like I was connected to the computer and seeing what is going on, like the operators in the Matrix watching the source code.

    It played on my hyperfocus and lack of filters so it really felt like the information was washing over me. Something that only also happens when I'm driving a motorbike and soaking up all the risks, information around me and the feeling of feedback from the bike.

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  • in reply to Desmond1979
    Desmond1979 said:
    It was as if we were intentionally designed to be Geeky

    Divine design or evolution - either way I embraced it and used to be in my element almost feeling like I was connected to the computer and seeing what is going on, like the operators in the Matrix watching the source code.

    It played on my hyperfocus and lack of filters so it really felt like the information was washing over me. Something that only also happens when I'm driving a motorbike and soaking up all the risks, information around me and the feeling of feedback from the bike.

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