#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.

[abnormalpsychology]

Hear me out. Brad and Janet, and Tom and Shiv— two failmarriages who may have more in common than you’d think:

inversion / parody of gender roles hetero romance

they are trying SOOOOOOO hard to be a normal married couple and it is just Not Working Out

very very hot sex symbol girlboss woman obsessed with another more powerful guy (Logan, Frank) and extremely unreliable but sometimes present sense of self-awareness and craves independence

dorky asshole malewife bottom trying desperately not to be a malewife as hard as he can for the entire media but yet the malewife genes overcome his efforts valiantly again and again and aGAIN

they cheat on each other a bunch of times (but they don't mean it guyssss 😩)

YES. they cheat on each other. BUT it's made known to the audience that they feel really bad abt it Imao

a premature WEIRD proposal done in a close-proximity-to-death situation yet they’re still like “okay 😊!” like would you rather I propose to you in the hospital while your dad is in intensive care from his brain hemorrhage OR in a graveyard after another person’s wedding while a funeral goes on right next to us featuring a suspiciously child-sized casket? romance central am I right

dedicated loving relationship struggling to survive in a crazy environment that is directly corrosive to dedicated loving relationships

horrible communication where the lack of communication in their marriage is kind of essential to the plot in and of itself

a threesome kinda happens in canon (more an orgy. this is abt rhps obviously) vs they almost had a threesome and then didnt... basically a threesome could've fixed all of them

"yes I cheated on you. Yes I still love you and would protect you as best I can in a traumatizing situation where a key extremely complex and kinda shitty person we both kinda love dies in front of us. We exist."

protection motif is a huge thing for both of them and in the end it's pretty clear that delusion is really what's actually been protecting them

most importantly: getting into marriage and being like "wow bitch!!! you are not who I thought you were"

they both end up in this really subjective completely destroyed irrevocably changed and entirely mortifyingly known position in their relationship like "who knows if we even love each other anymore"

"lol we both betrayed the other's trust beyond repair. does the love matter anymore lol Imao"

way too many people rightfully think there's no way to work their issues out but I am so delusional I don't give a shit <3

married couple that gets pitted against each other and have all these reasons to hate each other but you can tell that all of the love can’t be gone and like the evolution somehow emphasizes the love that was there before = PEAK ROMANCE. TO ME

[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.

[0th3rw0rldl1n3ss]

Having enough Autistic Pattern Recognition to know that Spotify has changed their shuffle algorithm recently but not enough to be able to describe exactly how or what changed is driving me bananas

[gaiaxygang]

Anyways not to be pit babe autism supreme but ive been thinking more about akekita persona 5 recently. they're just like kentaway fr..... down to the number of canon interactions (near zero)

[seabeck]

Me, trying to explain how to can tell the difference between species of plants and fungi:

[jolynejay]

Which one is it, Malleus

Malleus & Yuu/MC: having a Gargoyle Research Club meeting (aka going on a stroll at night infodumping at each other)

Yuu/MC: That reminds me, there is something I wanted to ask you.

Malleus: What is weighing on your mind, child of man?

Yuu/MC: Do you like gargoyles because they remind you of yourself - a living relic from a bygone time whose purpose has become largely obsolete due to the advancement of technology and society, only able to watch eternally from afar as people go about their lives without ever truly belonging to that world and no perspective for the future of your own as those you call kin slowly fade away?

Yuu/MC: Or do you like them "just because"?

Malleus:

[taamlok]

taash crumbs!

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Predicting Film Plots and 4 Other Examples of Autistic Pattern Seeking

Neurodivergent_lou

[mothmanstolemyidentity]

Trump ensuring that he “saves tik tok” when he takes office so people will love him is the same tactic Hitler used when he assumed power btw

love being a history teacher and teaching my kids about this stuff while living the horror that it’s happening again 😃

PLEASE TAKE THE GIFT OF PROPHECY FROM MEEEEEEEEEEE

[nox-is-thename]

Having pattern recognition with an interest in WWII specifically is insane. If Trump unbans TikTok, he’ll have created a state media in the US. Do not go back to that app

[the-daughter-of-lilith]

Pattern recognition as someone that's neurodivergent can become irritating. Like I didn't want to see 111, 222, 333, 444 all within 24 hours while noticing a sequence of songs on loop in my vicinity, but here we are. It's nice to finally recognize it's just a trait of autism, but I just wish I could hit the reset button on my brain's data being stored.

[sylvianightshade]

Me after season 1: You know what? I kinda like Joyce and Hopper together. I wonder if they’re gonna do anything with that next season. Idk, feels like a crack ship so probably not.

Season 2:

Me after season 2: You know what? I think El and Max would be a good wlw ship. They like barely know each other but idk, I feel like they’d vibe really well as a couple. They probably won’t get much more interaction next season tho.

Season 3:

Me after season 3: You know what? Robin and Nancy. Conceptually? Could bounce really well off each other. But that’s such a crack pairing. They probably won’t—

Season 4:

istg the Duffers are in MY walls.

(Bonus:

Me after season 4: Damn, Mike and Will are literally perfect for each other but. I guess the requited stuff is never gonna be canon.

Season 5: ??? 👀👀👀)

[petrofagonicapocalypse]

Does anyone else do this watching gizz sets cuz I literally go full 🤓☝️erm according to my calculations, they pulled out the synth table and stu left the flute out so they’re going to play grim reaper soon! And then they Did.

[therebelcaptain]

i feel like i’m one of eight people who went into the acolyte convinced that master indara was not going to make it past episode one. like, everyone seemed so surprised she got killed off straight away. i mean, most of the shots of her in the trailer were clearly flashbacks, so based on that i figured that she was one of the murdered jedi they were talking about. so if anything, the thing that surprised me was simply that they opened with her getting killed rather than having it be the end of the first episode or something. hopefully we get to see a lot more of her in flashbacks, but yeah. i didn’t think so many people would be surprised haha.

[perplexingluciddreams]

I love reading fanfiction to better understand characters I watched in a TV show or film. I can get to know them so much better from the words on a page, than watching them and hearing them speak.

I see patterns in facial movements, I see gait patterns, I see patterns in the shapes made by limbs and bodies. I hear intonation changes in voices like music. I notice patterns everywhere - it is making sense of these patterns and connecting things with their meanings that I struggle with, greatly.

When it comes to real people, if I watch long enough, I start to pin the meaning to these repeated movements and expressions and sounds. With fictional characters, I can't do that, as I can't ask them what their own behaviour means. I am unable to "read between the lines" at all.

When I read, the words hand me the meaning at the same time as explaining the visual or auditory that goes along with it. There is less necessary "reading between the lines", as those gaps are filled by words much more than on a TV show, where there is only dialogue.

I can tell when dialogue is cleverly written, I can find links and patterns, I can recognise when there is a reference to something - either that happened earlier in the show or timeline, or to something external that I am not aware of. My difficulty is that I simply don't understand it. I can't get all of that information from reading, either, but I certainly have a lot less gaps to fill.

Afterwards, I can rewatch and have a much deeper understanding of the characters. I start to be able to see them as fully-formed people, rather than just the words they say from the script.

I like to read different people's interpretations, also. Whilst it can be confusing, not knowing which interpretation I agree with more (as I can't much interpret behaviour or figurative language at all, on my own), it is also useful in giving me different perspectives to consider.

I might read several different fanfictions on a specific character or pairing, then rewatch relevant scenes several times; each time with one of those fanfiction's interpretations in mind.

Some of my favourite characters ever only became so strongly favoured because I read a fantastic fanfiction revolving around them, and started to understand them beyond the lines of a script.