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

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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. 😆

Autism_at_40

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

I used to have what I called 'face recognition software', if I saw someone in a programme or film once, I could recall it if I saw them again somewhere.

Autism_at_40

Looks like some of the posts on this thread have been deleted.

Albus_Scope

This is most likely due to someone asking for their account to be deleted @Autism_at_40

Autism_at_40

@Little_Owl Glad it helped 😀

@Albus_Scope - ok, shame, as I've already mentioned on another thread.

Amaya_Ringo

I think this thread was definitely needed :) I'm coming to it a bit late as I was working the last couple of days, but here are a few for me.

I have a very vivid imagination. Great attention to detail. A good theoretical memory (I taught myself another language which I later went on to complete a PhD in, and I can make sense of several other languages, including ones I haven't learned, by process of logic - I bought train tickets in Swedish before now). And I am loyal and honest. I sometimes can lose my temper, but I don't do hypocrisy or back-stabbing.

I don't think inside the box, but I understand the box well enough to communicate with those in it and see the world outside it. I feel bad for people who can only think within the "normal" box - it must be very dull.

And yes to the sense of injustice. That can be a pain sometimes, too…wanting to fix things when other people don't care enough to try. But at the same time, I know I'm not being led along by other people in a direction I don't believe. The downside of that is that I'm also hyperempathic and very sensitive to other people's moods or to atmosphere, so fighting battles can be very tough going.

True, I can't remember numbers, my working memory is awful, I can't operate an oven or a washing machine, I don't understand my pension or student loan statements. I am compelled to double check doors at work if I've locked them just to make sure I actually did lock them, and I can't navigate well even in my own neighbourhood. But that's the balance of life. And, honestly, I have some pretty hilarious 'getting lost' stories.

I think most of us have very high skills in certain areas and then pretty awful ones in others to compensate.

WhatThe

Great attention to detail. 

Yes! An asset most of the time. The rest of the time just an … 😄