3 things you thought were normal but weren't?

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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  • Interestingly I'm struggling to answer this question even though I'm late diagnosed. There are things that I don't understand why other people wouldn't be bothered by something or like something. But I think I always grew up with the knowledge I was different and things I did were not normal I almost assume it's a me thing. I just didn't know why I was different for a long time, or not for certain anyway.

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  • Interestingly I'm struggling to answer this question even though I'm late diagnosed. There are things that I don't understand why other people wouldn't be bothered by something or like something. But I think I always grew up with the knowledge I was different and things I did were not normal I almost assume it's a me thing. I just didn't know why I was different for a long time, or not for certain anyway.

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