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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  • Eating non food items.

    Feeling empathy for inanimate objects.

    Being able to differentiate the differing constituents of a taste or smell.

  • Feeling empathy for inanimate objects.

    Oh yeah! I get that. I feel horrible regret and grief whenever one of my daughters break a toy. It’s weird, because it could have nothing to do with me and I’ll still feel deeply upset about it. It’s almost like I feel sorry for how the toy’s been mistreated. Idk, it’s a weird feeling.

  • I'm the same about inanimate objects, but I feel they're imbued with life from being used and loved. The other things about that is its very selective, almost everybody has something thats THIERS, a cup or a spoon. Then theres things that might be inanimate but are alive and aware like plants.

    I've never watched Toy Story, but my childhood was full of toys that came to life, Andy Pandy, Bill and Ben etc as well as talking animals.

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  • I'm the same about inanimate objects, but I feel they're imbued with life from being used and loved. The other things about that is its very selective, almost everybody has something thats THIERS, a cup or a spoon. Then theres things that might be inanimate but are alive and aware like plants.

    I've never watched Toy Story, but my childhood was full of toys that came to life, Andy Pandy, Bill and Ben etc as well as talking animals.

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