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Having to eat has to be my least favorite part of neourdivergence. "Oh, it's been a few hours since eating and I really want to eat"
This cited phenomenon is not a particularly neurodivergent one. Pretty much everyone sees the train wrecks coming.
If you are neurodivergent, not everything about your life and how your mind works is defined by that.
Object permanence has to be me least favorite part of neurodivergence. "Oh I walked away from that tree but I know it's still there."
I like your example so much better than my own.
My least favorite part today: Waiting for someone to read from a mandatory script written for the least common denominator.
Before we let your wife talk to us about the bank account, you'll need to answer some questions to prove your identity, you must wait for all answers to be read before responding.......
We've been doing this so long that the people who invented it have died. Can I just use a fucking YubiKey and a pin?
Everyone is taking as if pattern recognition gives you some kind of oracle powers of seeing the future.
Just to clarify, pattern recognition ≠ foretelling.
More often it just causes people to overthink and invent conspiracy theories.
Sort of but like the post is saying, I've been way more right then wrong over my life. The amount of times I've argued online with people about things only to have that thing become the big issue 5 years from the point I was arguing it is disgusting. I remember 20 years ago sitting in a bay at work being made fun of because I kept talking about Russia and how they have started to allocate a higher percentage of their budget to cyber warfare that was unseen in budgets outside of wartime. It indicated they were building something. Stuff like that I get hyper interested in. I think I have a good nose for sources. I get into those sources and then find some weird thing nobody else is aware of and then you're just aware of this looming issue and all you can do is watch it unfold.
Same thing with online bots. I can see when certain activity spikes. Certain topics get AstroTurfed and all of a sudden we're talking about nuclear power for a week or some other topic that is really a facade for some bigger issue we're slowly being steered towards. AI was a big one, go to any AI article and tell me that is not the exact same approach Republicans use against immigrants. It's the same fucking thing. "they're taking your job" "they're going to destroy your culture" "they're coming after your women and children" "They're using up all the resouces"
AI has it's issues. But you cannot convince me that there wasn't something pushing articles and headlines on left wing spaces when it was first introduced. There was a massive push to set the tone.
"I see where this is going"
Goes in a different direction
"Oh, so this is part of the pattern where everyone is trying to fuck with me"
confirmation bias averted ... this time
That's also a thing, overthinking and obsessive interests.
And the talker types see the ability to see through their lies as "uncanny".
It feels anecdotal, but I felt like I had a voodoo doll for my last manager. He was a nice enough guy but just hyper and careless. So he would do stuff all the time without thinking about what came next. I would see him on my commute sometimes following close behind other cars, speeding to red lights and such. Said to my coworker, 'He is going to not be here one day because he got in a car accident.' A few weeks later and he is out because he totalled his car into the back of another car. Another time the company was cheaping out on hiring someone to replace lightbulbs and he was like, I'll just change them myself! I said, "you need insurance to do stuff like that in an office, thousands of people fall off ladders every year" A few weeks later he was out for days, found out he fell off a ladder at his house. I didn't cause these things to happen, but I stopped vocalizing what I was predicting. As the wise Michael Scott once said, "I'm not superstitious, but I am a little stitious."
Sadly this describes every day of my life and has led to some serious, serious depression problems. Being able to spot things from miles out sounds pretty amazing on paper, but it's really truly a special kind of hell when you can't actually do anything about all the horrible, horrible things you see in the horizon. To anyone else who is also like this, I truly hope you shoulder it well. It is not an easy thing to live with.
I spent so long being part of /r Collapse. It was a bit latter than expected, but it is finally here.
Spent too much useful time going for longshot jobs, and trying to be something I'm not, instead of settling for what little I can get, like other people.
In the short-term, I have co-workers questioning why I'm doing things "wrong" and "correcting" me, then I watch as my back gets strained, and we lose time, making the "mistake" I had seen coming.
Pattern recognition with history autism has to be the worst version of this.
Unless you like fascism.
Great news if you do, because all patterns indicate a global speed running to Germany, circa 1939ish.
I am so autistic that when I went for my adhd assessment recently, they had me do this computer test with letters and sounds, and the sounds one, I recognised the pattern within maybe 2-3 minutes of a 30 minute test. Which voided my adhd results
I think the actual worst part about this is that pattern recognition isn’t supposed to be a neurodivergent thing. Pattern recognition is like a built in feature in humans, but most people have it beat out of them in school
Pattern recognition is like a built in feature in humans, but most people have it beat out of them in school
Like so much else, it's a trained skill. You don't have pattern recognition beaten out. You just aren't so heavily invested in a subject that you get it stamped in.
It's not as though we're born with the ability to hear Morse Code, for instance. You have to develop an ear for it.
It's also a double edged sword, especially when you queue in on a pattern without understanding the reason behind it. Plenty of patterns are purely coincidental.
Picking out a "message" in a series of sounds doesn't mean the dish washer is talking to you.
You don’t have [it] beaten out.
I agree and disagree. Pattern recognition is a trained skill, for you have learn to recognize each pattern. Pattern recognition is not, however, a trained skill in the way that you have to learn to recognize patterns at all.
However, during school most people have their ability to recognize patterns at all severely diminished due to “gotcha” questions on tests, questions that specifically are designed to catch you out using pattern recognition. This trains the person to not trust their pattern recognition, and in some cases people will actually learn to go against their pattern recognition because they assume things are trying to catch that
However, during school most people have their ability to recognize patterns at all severely diminished due to “gotcha” questions on tests, questions that specifically are designed to catch you out using pattern recognition.
The joke of that technique is these questions become a pattern unto themselves. Despite middling grades in high school, I aced a number of standardized tests in large part because the "bullshit" gotcha questions stuck out like sore thumbs to me.
This trains the person to not trust their pattern recognition
Again, I throw back to the person listening for conversational queues in the banging of their washing machine.
You shouldn't trust pattern recognition on its face. It's deceptively easy to pick out a false signal in white noise.
There's more to be said on this, with certain schools (particularly religious or highly ideological academic settings) focusing on uncritical acceptance of official dogma or a state-designated axiomatic understanding of a certain subject. But that goes above and beyond teaching people not to trust their pattern recognition skills.
Yes, though its also the basis for all conspiracy theories
The worst part is when you try to gently warn people, and they look at you like you’re the crazy one—only for the exact thing you predicted to happen five minutes later.
It's funny, because this is more often diagnosed the other way around.
Neurotypicals pick up on emotional queues their partners miss, try to warm them that they're committing a faux pau, and are dismissed until things spiral out of hand.
Then they look at you again in shock and exclaim, "omg! You were right!" To which I typically reply, "I know."
Their response: who told you?
Implicit: you probably knew all along, you bastard.
They just continue on in frustration, annoyed, not understanding why things aren't working out.