I was about to write: As someone late-diagnosed[1] with ADHD[2] and discovering they're autistic, ... -
>Once I was diagnosed with autism, this tendency of mine made a lot more sense.
...yup. This is what I was a about to write.
>I’m curious if other people detect interrupted or irregular patterns so readily. It’s like there’s a part of my brain just looking for anomalies and I can’t turn it off.
The answers to that are no and yes, that's the blessing and the curse of autism.
Seeking and recognizing patterns is one of the defining traits.
I was about to write: As someone late-diagnosed[1] with ADHD[2] and discovering they're autistic, ... -
>Once I was diagnosed with autism, this tendency of mine made a lot more sense.
...yup. This is what I was a about to write.
>I’m curious if other people detect interrupted or irregular patterns so readily. It’s like there’s a part of my brain just looking for anomalies and I can’t turn it off.
The answers to that are no and yes, that's the blessing and the curse of autism.
Seeking and recognizing patterns is one of the defining traits.
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[1] https://romankogan.net/adhd#Diagnosis
[2] https://romankogan.net/adhd/#Awfully%20Described%20Human%20D...