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3 things you thought were normal but weren't?

SJ7

Hello,

After learning about autism and watching a lot of videos about autism in adults and those with late diagnoses, many of what they said is that they thought they always used to do a certain thing and thought it was normal but apparently it was not!

I want to share 3 of those things and maybe you can share yours too!

3 things I thought were normal but apparently are not!

1- Asking the dentist what exactly is he/she going to do in details and what tools they're going to use! It makes me more at ease...

Bonus: They usually don't entertain my request until I finally got one that would actually tell me before hand and would also play some classical music in the background!

2- I always notice interesting car plate numbers or similar ones, i later realized that my brain actually unconsciously scan the numbers and if any triggers a special pattern then it draws attention to my brain to notice it! I can't scientifically prove it but I thought to myself why don't I notice normal/boring numbers? and came up with that conclusion. My wife always thought it's interesting how I notice these things...

3- Excel is my top used app... I analyze anything and everything. I once complained to the central bank about a $0.10 discrepancy with my bank from a transaction and they were like how the #ell did I find that! lol...

I have many more but i'll share them later! Let me here yours guys :D

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  • in reply to Lotus

    I’ll never forget the day I learned that the majority of people put on their clothes, and then, after a minute they stop feeling them/being aware of them until they consciously bring their attention to the feel of their clothes at which point they can feel them again. This is called sensory gating apparently and most people from the predominant neurotype are doing it all the time…. Just filtering out their sensations. This was one of the biggest revelations of my adult life. I walked around for weeks asking people if it was true that they just stop noticing their clothes and everybody said “well yes, of course!”. 

  • in reply to Lotus

    I could never work out why clothing manufacturers seemed oblivious to 'everyone in the world' cutting out their stupid, unbearable labels. I now know that only a very few people - some autistics - feel like these labels might as well be made of sandpaper or razor blades, most don't even notice them. Allistics must have hides like rhinos!