Published on 12, July, 2020
I'm a 32yo guy with Asperger's, I've always picked up on things more than I think "normal" people do but recently I've become even more aware of this. This could be a tap dripping in another room, the smell of burning that everyone else has totally missed, the werid noise coming from their car engine, the text that's out of alignment in a presentation by a pixel from one page to the next, the bad calculation on a page etc. These things stand out to me like a foghorn, the smell of an open sewer or a big flashing light and bug the hell out of me, I want to fix them even though to everyone else they don't even register. If I'm not careful these things can annoy me until I can fix them.
Does anyone else suffer with the same thing and have you found any suitable coping mechanisms to stop caring about fixing these things if it's not really within your remit?
I'm the same. I've learnt to just let these things be (most of the time!) but I've no helpful ideas on how to feel like that. I still want to oil the rusty chains on passing bicycles
You could put your acute observational skills to good use in some way- a few years back I did an animal tracking course. I was great at it and noticed stuff the instructor had missed. It was very satisfying to be able to indulge my fondness for noticing details and even to have it praised.