Neurodiversity.. the good stuff...

WhatThe

my extreme loyalty/honesty/sincerity and how extremely observant and sharp I am when people try take me for a fool.

Yes.

WhatThe

vikki, yes but no but yes.. 😊

Nightcity, we don't/can't fool ourselves. I don't understand how or why most people do but that seems to be a survival mode.

WhatThe

Yeah but no but yeah days can certainly pay off 😄

Rock-steady in some aspects post-diagnosis for sure. It's a strange discovery late in life but a brilliant one.

WhatThe

Sometimes I feel I need it tattooed on my forehead 🙄 AUTISTIC

(go away, be quiet, no! 😆)

WhatThe

😄 Matt Lucas is sooo talented

Nightcity

my friend pointed out to me that I have a photographic long term memory for random rubbish. After thinking about! it she's right.

I can watch a film once and remember most details about it if I saw it again twenty years later.

I can remember massive swathes of lines from my favourite soaps and dramas.

I remember exact dates for bizarre random things years later such as if someone Went to a theme park on x y and z date in 2001.

my short term memory however is impaired to the point I was even once tested for early onset dementia.

CDove

hello everybody I’m loving this thread. Am a careers coach at Evenbreak and work with many Neuro diverse wondrous people. Throughmy incredible clients I have learnt that I I have ADHD and how advantageous it is for me to seek out autistic people to work with. We are such a great compliment. I am also writing a book on the experience of People with DIsability/Neurodiversity and how we transform. Our lives. It seems to me the trick is to find a way to get comfortable with ourselves and all our wonderful strengths/facets in our personalities and get these to help each other out. Apologies if I miss details in your threads..l I have to do speech to text .And vice versa as I’m blind

I know a lot of people here do you like the term? Neuro spicy?I’m wondering if we can come up with a better one together! To get the ball rolling, how about Neuro -gifted?? oh Neuro-intelligent?

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Jimm_Scope

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/922140#Comment_922140

I seem to have something similar to this as well. When we visit my partners parents they enjoy watching Jeopardy with me because I can sometimes just get the really obscure categories.

Wibbles

I can remember all of my dad's car registration number plates from the early 70's

But I can't remember what I did last week!!

Little_Owl

This thread has been helpful for me today because I'm feeling a bit down and struggling to be positive about my neurodiversity. So, to try to improve my mindset, here are the things I like about being autistic (and possibly ADHD):

Ability to care deeply for others and make decisions based on the feelings of those around me.

Empathy (although this can sometimes be a negative too). I can feel the emotions of others so I can understand how they feel. But sometimes I can't tell which emotions are my own!

The joy that I can feel when I'm doing something that makes me happy. I love birds, if I see a bird that I particularly like, I feel like I'm going to explode with joy and often end up crying. I love the way certain music can make me feel this way too.

Observation and problem solving skills - I tend to observe things at work from a distance and can often notice underlying problems that others haven't seen and think of solutions to those problems.

Retention of random knowledge - if I'm interested in something, I am very unlikely to forget it.This is mainly maths, sciences and nature related things.

Albus_Scope

I do love the fact I can reel off Latin names of many praying mantis species with no issues, but I often cant remember what I had for breakfast. 😆