(February 9, 2018 at 8:08 pm)Banned Wrote:(February 9, 2018 at 8:00 pm)Grandizer Wrote: Nothing beyond having really good rote memory and being good with maths and coding and stuff. If by your question, you mean I can do such things as calculate really large numbers in my head so easily or recite the first 1000 decimal digits of the Pi number off by heart, forwards and then backwards, then obviously no. The majority of people on the autism spectrum, contrary to popular belief, aren't anything like Rain Man. These people, referred to as savants, are rather really, really rare. I think you can even count them with your hands.
Have you been diagnosed with autism or such, despite it's broad definitions, or is it something you have known about for some time?
Only informally, as in I saw a psychiatrist for one session a decade or so ago, and after interviewing me, concluded that I was indeed on the spectrum (on the high-functioning end). However, I am seeking to get a formal diagnosis on paper once I feel comfortable enough financially to cover the costs of assessment (it's not cheap, even here in Australia).
But long before that diagnosis, I have known something was not right when I was in my teenage years in high school. And then when I was around 20 or so, I looked up online to see what was wrong with me, and then came upon autism spectrum disorders, including Asperger's (which, at the time, was still a thing in its own sort of category), and looking at the criteria and reading about other people's experiences with the condition, I knew this was the one that matched what I was struggling with.
