Published on 12, July, 2020
What "autistic" things do you find yourselves doing? I do a lot of different things which I know a neurotypical wouldn't think twice about.
One of them is making sure everything in my house is straight, so the chairs, my books and DVDs on the shelf, pictures hanging on the wall and plenty more than that.
Recently I was doing up an MG Maestro and had noticed the offside headlight wasn't seated properly and was facing a little to the side. This bothered me so much, playing at the back of my mind until finally I went out and straightened it because I couldn't cope with it not being right.
I feel like I was actually approaching a meltdown, that's how much this sort of thing bothers me.
Am I alone in being this way?
Paying a lot of attention to specific details while leaving others untouched; nothing like doing on-the-spot internet research, I guess. There's also pacing around rooms (I noticed that I've been doing that a lot recently in my home) and walking around aimlessly (Stairs have to be the evilest invention man has created) and going deep into internet rabbit holes that satisfies my curiosities. All while being distracted from things—especially the last one.