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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 think I experience this a bit, increased pattern recognition. For example, I have an excellent memory for people's faces, I'll remember what someone looks like almost instantly, However, ask me to repeat their names and I haven't got a clue. I think I just respond to visuals better than audio. Also, when someone is trying to teach me a board game and they explain the rules verbally to me, I feel lost and confused. So I just watch the game play out instead and suddenly everything clicks into place.

    Other things I can think of are wordsearches, the words don't seem that difficult for me to just "see". And when I help my son with his maths homework, I just look at another example and substitute the bits for his question. I can't really explain how I do this, it just happens.

  • in reply to pdaddio83

    Thank you pdaddio83, I guess it’s perhaps because a lot of Autistic people analyse everything on the daily, it’s the structure of the concepts that we can then connect to other structures with very similar concepts creating a link upon a link upon a link, sorry I’m just thinking out loud Smiley

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