Can you give me examples of autistic pattern recognition please?

[autyspauty]

Looking into whether or not child is autistic and I don't know what this means on the 'am I autistic?' tests online.

Google is spewing articles but not anecdotes. I want to see what an example is? I just can't imagine what it means

Whenever I see numbers, I add up all the digits and see if the sum divides by 5. When I see letters, I allocate them values so that their total weight can be divided by five (for example depending on context a dot might be allocated 1/8, or bold typeface might double the value of a letter, and so on). It's like a background hum, it never detracts me from what I'm actually doing.

I do similar.

My autistic child doesn't do this so it's an interesting read.

Mine also has adhd and has memory issues. You guys sound amazing 😊 so clever.

I taught a four year old autistic girl who could do a 30-40 piece jigsaw upside down (e.g. the plain card side, not the picture). It didn't take her long, either.

A lot of what you're hearing here is from adults who have the advantage of many years learning how to best work around stuff, and are answering a question specifically about pattern-recognition abilities, so giving examples of something that can have positive aspects.

Whether your child at some point develops interests in patterns in some particular area or not, they are amazing too :)

I think it's really hard to spot in someone else. Personally, I'm kind of always trying to find the patterns in anything and get frustrated if there isn't one.

Like if there's a patterned wallpaper, I'll stare at it until I find the repeat block. I'll try and find patterns in cars in the car park, like is there 2 black cars, a white car, a red car, repeat. Its made me good at maths and science. I made up phonetics (if thats what they're called) for the way things burned in chemistry or things like that.

But even as an autistic myself I couldn't spit that behaviour in someone else.

I'm hyperlexic, good at troubleshooting (I can link a bunch of really odd symptoms and find an "obvious" solution that's stumped everyone else for hours), driven crazy in uni by constantly hearing the answer "I never thought of looking at it like that" from my lecturers when I thought I was asking pretty obvious question.

But... I will also sit and stare for hours playing with the patterns in the wallpaper, without realising I'm losing time. I lost marks in maths for not showing my working, because I wasn't doing any. It's not all "wow, you're amazing".

DS sees patterns in lamp posts

Dd could tell you every B and A road number that we'd ever travelled on by the time she was 4, it used to freak me out a bit because I never knowingly taught her numbers, but as soon as we turned off one road onto another she'd say something along the lines of ""bye, bye A12, hello B1508" she has an encyclopaedic knowledge of A and B roads in England, and will happily study a road map for hours.

That's bloody adorable.

If a fork is the 'wrong way round' in the cutlery drawer, and you absolutely HAVE to turn it round to match the others.

For example, he wanted to collect all of a certain group of toys but they were in blind bags. He gets very frustrated if the blind bag doesn't have the one he is after.

DS was like this over the Ninjago blind bags. I got to be an expert in feeling which minifig was in which bag. He needed to have to full set.

I did this as a child and I still do it with my kids Lego. 😂 I am obsessively tidy and get irritated if stuff isn't in the correct order.

But why oh why would you put it back the wrong way in the first place?! (And if you say someone else did it then I suggest a laminated guide to cutlery placement tucked inside the drawer)