#autistic pattern recognition

[anexperimentallife]

Imagine you and a friend both watch someone toss a ball into the air. You're like, "Oh, it's going to come down here, so we'd better move," and your friend says, "Tch, clearly it's not coming down AT ALL," and just stands there.

Then, when the ball hits them, they're either mystified at how you figured it out, or they chalk it up to luck.

Either way, the NEXT time someone tosses a ball in the air and you tell them where it's going to fall, they're absolutely CERTAIN you're wrong THIS time, and assure you that THIS time the ball is going to stay in the air. So you get out of the way while your friend gets beaned again.

This is what it's like having autistic pattern recognition and not being taken seriously.

[vaguelyaperson]

autistic pattern recognition and gullibility be like “huh, this seems strange/wrong/out of the ordinary... but it’s being presented as fact so it must be so. don’t like it though.”

and then it turns out your first observation was right. gets me every time.