>>212851037>How can you not read patterns what does that even mean?I have no idea what the questions mean in those tests. Picrel. It includes facial expressions, body language, social patters, abstract patters in images and so on. The normal IQ pattern tests have zero meaning to me. But I can disassemble a PC down to the smallest part, know exaclty where every screw and cable came from, where it goes, how to perfectly cable manage it before I even do it. Because that is just how my brain works.
>>212851062No. That is not how that works. Autistic hyper-fixation is not a voluntary choice. I have no say in what my brain decides to (or not to) fixate on. No matter how much I practice and force myself, I cannot improve in something that doesn't activate that. I am in my 30's and I cannot tie my shoes. The knots do not exist in my head no matter how much I have tried. That's the limit of autistic pattern rigidity.
I have the engine manual for my dads 1977 Opel Kadett memorized down to the last word but I cannot remember my own phone number.