Sure. I often get fixated on some topic, especially if it’s work related. I buy lots of used textbooks to learn about the topic.
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Yes I have read multiple encyclopedias, as the internet was not available to most people when I was a child
It makes me great at independent learning. It also makes me horrible at following orders. A "do this thing" without a "because" will get done quite differently to what you'd expect, if at all.
I don't think this has anything to do with autism, ADHD, or neurodivergence.
Intelligent people are curious. That's what makes them intelligent.
IMHO neurodivergent people don't have a trait for "curiousity" -- they're just more intelligent (if their neurodivergence isn't too severe) and so are interested in things. That's why there's so many in technical and engineering fields, mathematics, science -- the really hard stuff (hard for most people.)
Yeah, it's still not easy because there's so much other stuff going on inside the mind, but all that other stuff is going to lead to some pretty cool thoughts that could turn into a paper, project, business, thesis, etc. (if you manage to remember them long enough to write them down!) Over years this builds brain matter and this is where the intelligence comes from (again assuming the neurodivergence isn't severe.)
By "intelligence" I mean the raw ability to process information and gain understanding from it. Not IQ.
Everyone eats but autists eat differently, we aren't talking about non-autistics here friend.
This is literally the ableist version of 'all lives matter'
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Yes. I can't help that everything is fascinating to me...
As a child I used to annoy the hell out of my mother, by asking why... I'm a scientist now. Now I wonder why, as the pay is shit 😂
As a child I used to annoy the hell out of my mother, by asking why
This is true for literally every kid. All kids are born scientists but many lose interest or get frustrated over time
When I was a kid and bugged my mom with 'why', she'd hand me a book about it and it would shut me up for hours
And yet I'm told that millenial parents doing the same with their kids and youtube is fine and just like how my mother would hand me a book
And we're seeing the results come through highschool rn
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I do. And I know that folks will get snippy if I ask.
Thankfully, Wikipedia exists, and it is more than willing to vomit forth information without getting an attitude about it.
Sure let's make "why" into a negative.
Might as wel surrender your life and live by a.i.'s statements.
What is the purpose of this post?
Why do you ask?
I need to know why
Why do you need to know it?
The existential dread of not knowing; gnaws at my psyche in uncomfortable ways that I cannot adequately put into words.
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Hmmm, I am almost 70. I think I am neurodivergent?
After all the stuff I have been reading the past couple of years on Reddit and Lemmy I seem to exhibit quit a few of the traits mentioned about being neurodivergent. Starts with me having Aphantasia(no pictures in my brain) and Anendophasia (no inner voice at all) maybe. Not sure. Is it even worth getting a diagnosis at this point in my life?
Why indeed.
I have multi-sensory aphantasia. No pictures/sounds/tastes/touch/smell. My inner voice is soundless but constant.
I discovered aphantasia at 40; it is not a lack or detriment merely a difference. I talked with my Mum about it, she is has aphantasia and didn't realise and she is 66.
Aphantasia doesn't hold you back or make life harder; especially since you can go decades without realising that you have it.
You may have other stuff, ASD or ADHD etc....but aphantaisa isn't in the same realm.
Found out about the aphantasia about 10yrs ago. Found out about the Anendophasia about 5 yrs ago. It’s more the other stuff I do or have done that has me a wondering’.
Yes it's your call. It was for me, it gave me peace about being labelled as thick as a kid and it helps me in day to day life.
Yes. All my siblings and parents are dead now. Their kids the usual level of apathy and avarice. So it would definitely only be for my peace of mind knowing.
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Of course I do. It's only the impulse to ask out loud that was trained out of me.
According to my religion ignorance is a sin, thusly I must know as much as possible in a sisyphusian goal of madness. Is summary: why?
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Always.
Yes.
As it turns out, inexplicably, this is not a trait that works out well within corporate America... Source: Of course I know him, He's me.
mine’s not orange