If autism gave you super-intelligence with quirky social deficiencies everyone would want it.
But that’s not how it works.
It kinda is. At least for some of us. It's more like super-intelligence about an incredibly narrow topic that probably doesn't matter. Some of us win the lottery and our special interests align with something in the world that capitalism values highly. Like one of my special interests is computer science, math, and logic. So I'm good at programming. Some people with autism have a special interest in one obscure comic strip from the 1930s, which makes it hard to get a job that they can succeed in.
Some people with autism have a special interest in one obscure comic strip from the 1930
To be fair, Nancy is kind of a whole mood.
Do you think you'd be smart enough to do those jobs well if I could give you a magic pill that took away the autism?
Is it even a meaningful question to ask if you can unpick the autistic traits from the rest of you ?
Frankly I don't think it's a meaningful question. I don't think my personality would survive untangling all of my AuDHD traits from the rest of me. I don't think it would even be possible to point at specific traits and say for sure whether they are resultant from the ND. It's all me.
Thanks, I appreciate you sharing your experience with me. When you talk about winning the lottery, metaphorically speaking, are there some traits or behaviours you attribute to the ND?
To be open about my motivation for my curiosity, a lot of my professional life I'm supporting ND people. My own NDs are definitely not of a magnitude to be worthy of diagnosis and people are so diverse so I appreciate the opportunity to get someone's perspective directly.
I'm not the same person but I can definitely attribute some negative symptoms of autism in my life.
The biggest negative symptom and limiting factor for me personally is the overstimulation. I can be perfectly comfortable in an extremely chaotic environment and then suddenly with no warning start perceiving every single tiny detail around me.
Touch. Sound. Smell. Temperature. Air currents. THE BUZZING OF ELECTRICITY FLOWING THROUGH WIRES.
It's triggered several panic attacks throughout my life. 0/10 would only recommend for use as torture.
Its fine to ask, but the answer is "no". Autism is a blueprint for how the brain gets wired. Its not something a person 'has', it's a defining attribute of consciousness itself - its what a person 'is'.
If you had a pill that could rewire someone's brain, it would kill that person and use their meat as spare parts to build a different person.
If there's one thing I've learned about YouTube is that the most niche topics can gather an audience. I've never been interested in the workings of heat pumps, mechanical switches, or car horns. But I look forward to a new drop every week.
But I have no charisma.
You'd be surprised. Genuine interest about a topic can be very contagious. Don't go out there to make a name for yourself but if you talk about something that you're deeply passionate about, your audience will find you.
Like you said, some “win the lottery”. I think most people would prefer not to have to deal with the difficulties. You can be autistic and good at something or not autistic and good at the same thing.
Is it super-intelligence or just the natural desire to just consume stuff about a topic?
I don’t have Autism, but I do have ADHD and I am just gifted with an innate curiosity to learn new things which can seem like I’m intelligent, but honestly I have no control over it. I could spend a week learning about how the brain works and it will be all consuming, then all of a sudden I have zero interest in it.
This means I have a rudimentary understanding of so many topics, but rarely will I master any one of them.
Ehh… thats why we don’t often mention the Autism HUD. Once the neurotypicals find out about it everybody going to start wanting it. Fortunately everyone who uses Lemmy is an Autistic Femboy Linux user.
We should probably keep Lemmy a secret, too.
Identic memory doesn't require autism and can very well make you seem hyper intelligent when you're just remembering shit.
Intelligence, to me, is defined as on the fly problem solving and improving. You can't always remember a solution to a rapidly changing problem.
I think you may mean eidetic
Spell check fails us all, eventually.
If only you had pedantic memory.
They're called harbulary batteries
That’s true. I pretty much agree with that assessment of intelligence, a high generalist knowledge along with good problems solving skills; though I have to concede that specialist knowledge or other ways of expressing intelligence are valid as well.
Can I still do a 30-day trial, or.....
According to TV, autism either enables the universe's developer mode, or makes you proclaim your profession, loudly and repeatedly, when your flaws are pointed out.
I dunno about that. But I'm not so sure, as a software engineer. Btw I'm a software engineer - never really thought about that. As a software engineer and all. Software. Engineer.
I'm specifically referring to this scene from the same show.
Wow. that's a lot of cringe right there
Yep. The meltdown episode is where the show went completely off the rails.
So it actually was fairly honest autism rep.
This is Abed erasure
I AM A SURGEON! I AM A SURGEON! I AM A SURGEON! I AM A SURGEON! I AM A SURGEON! I AM A SURGEON! I AM A SURGEON! I AM A SURGEON! I AM A SURGEON! I AM A SURGEON!
Y'all didn't know? Autism turns on debug mode irl.
Problem is, you can't turn it off. Which is why we're quick at problem solving, but slow at everything else.
Or something. 🙃
Oh yeah absolutely. The quickest way to get something done is to monkey patch another process instead.
Autism enables the source code HUD, but it only shows each chunk after you figure out the assembly.
We're quite the little pattern recognizers... but watch out.
My dyslexia lets me see ghosts of old Union soldiers. Coming this fall to CBS
They help you read so you can solve crimes. They don't provide any insight related to their civil war experience or anything, they're just like an EA
FUCK I got the "Beat Donkey Kong Country 3 over and over again" Autism instead of the Medical HUD Autism
I thought I gave the game away when I physically moved stuff around the HUD with my hands. These guys just put it in a TV show!
Well I guess I should just come clean here, this is what ADHD super focus looks like too. Complete with transparent windows so we can layer them and see in 3D.
I’m autistic and my mental processing is visual. It’s a lot like that actually.
Is this how people without internal dialogue think, with internal hud
What show is this?
My daughter used to watch it. I think its The Good Doctor.
The American adaptation of The Good Doctor in particular, which ended recently. I know both those bits of knowledge largely against my will.
The Good Doctor, a show about a surgeon who is fighting his Hollywood Autism, complete with all the stereotypes, and trying to get through life and career at a hospital. Plays very hard into the "idiot savant" trope.
It seems like an ok show from the bit of season 1 I watched, but then I had an Autistic kid and learned I was Autistic myself and had a deep dive into Autism life... And yeah it does a pretty poor representation of it and I don't think I would want to go back to that show by this point.
My ADHD version very similar to that.
Although, on mine, if you actually read any of it, none of it's even remotely related to what I'm trying to figure out. It looks like it is but this is a lie.
Its not even like I'm thinking of lots of different things. Its just junk.
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