I’m not MAGA, so I never get asked to participate…

Nothing like a good chauvinist meme…

Yes - I wish Reddit would keep them…

I find that I like to do things alone with others… (for real; not making a joke)

My pattern recognition is off the charts. I can’t explain it very well as I don’t know “how” I do it, but I often know what went wrong and where which lends well to the job that I do. I’m that person going to IT/dev teams like, “you gotta trust me bro”, and I don’t think I’ve been wrong yet at my current job (knock on wood). Beyond work it is very helpful as well.

I’m also in IT and can troubleshoot like crazy. It’s quite common for me to identify root cause in packaged applications where the vendor support is unable. In one case I was able to tell them exactly the mistake they were looking for in their Java code despite having zero access to their code. I always warn support staff that I bring them two types of problems - utter brain farts where I usually solve it right after submitting or something that is just bizarre/complex as hell. In those bizarre/complex scenarios, the main limitation in my solving the problem is typically proprietary/secret information that they don’t make available. I often have to guide the troubleshooting in those support cases knowing generically what is wrong, but not having the details to just solve it.

It’s a company giving you the FICO score and not the country.

Country finances are extremely different from corporate and personal finances.

Weak meme…

If internal, don’t forget whether to use 3F8, 2F8, 3E8, or 2E8 and an unused IRQ. Any questions? Hit me up on ICQ

Unless using Kermit and then 7E1 was standard.

Why is Lemmy so obsessed with Reddit? Move on…

The first 3-5 episodes looked like a high school drama class performing their first play, the acting was so stilted. :) I really like the overall story arc and how the show really manipulated who was the good guy and who was the bad guy through it all.

I owned one of the original external units and later a couple of the 3.5" internal drives. Just tossed some discs and that original drive in the trash 2 years ago

Babylon 5

than a professional who likely studied the subject Unless you find a doctor where that is their specialty, then the likelihood for most other doctors is that they have only spent a few hours on the matter and possibly quite a long time ago.

Finding an answer to your « uniqueness » is so convenient, that you will likely reject anything that does not fit the story, One can be scientific in their process. I also didn’t come to this completely solo… I’ve been married for a long time and my SO has a masters degree in education. There’s a decent chance that she’s had as much professional training on the subject as many doctors. We’ve been looking for answers and doing research for years, not hours. Even though I fully accept that I am autistic at this point, I still look for information that contradicts that conclusion. Usually what happens, though, is that I’ll stumble upon yet another thing that fits perfectly with the diagnosis. The same person who did the video in this post has another one about autists walking on the balls of their feet. I had no idea this was an autistic trait and I’ve done that my whole life.

It’s frustrating that so many professionals don’t have training on autism. I would have had a lot of life benefit if I could have been diagnosed decades ago instead of only recently. As I mentioned to someone else, I’m not averse to getting professionally diagnosed, but I can see absolutely no benefit in doing so. I’m in my 50’s. I’m not aware of any resources that will be opened up to me upon an official diagnosis that make it worth the time, effort, and cost. I remain open to learning otherwise and reconsidering…

I don’t think it’s a good idea to be convinced of something that is not supported by a professional expertise.

Professional expertise is not something that is locked up and can only be accessed by a professional. You’re suggesting something equivalent to no lay person should be allowed to change their own brakes on their car because of the professional expertise involved.

In the course of self-diagnosis, one has access to a ton of professional expertise and assessment without ever having a face to face with a professional.

There are extremely few resources available to someone my age. I’ve been married for a very long time and figuring this out really helped resolve some issues we’d struggled with. I have a successful, professional career.

I simply can’t come up with a compelling reason to get officially diagnosed. If someone can give me a compelling reason to do so, then I have the means to do so. I just don’t see the point of putting myself through it nor taking up the limited professional services where someone else desperately needs the professional diagnosis and the resources it would make available to them.

In a lot of ways, autism diagnosis now is where diabetes diagnosis was 25 years ago when I got that diagnosis. More doctors are starting to have an awareness of it, but few are even qualified/willing to diagnose. I had all of the signs and test results to show I was diabetic, but the doctor I went to was unqualified/unwilling to declare it.

What if you are wrong?

What if the ‘professional’ is wrong? I self diagnosed after I was already in my 50’s. This means that I went for over 50 years without an assortment of professionals figuring it out.

There is zero doubt in my self-diagnosis. It wasn’t made on a whim. It wasn’t made in a rush. It has been life changing.

I’ve been masking and compensating for so long that I often feel that my answers don’t fully reflect my autism. I’m also incredibly particular about the wording of questions. In many cases a single word changed would dramatically change my answer even though I suspect most allistic people would consider them to be the same question.

Monotropism Score: 168 / 235

Your Average: 3.57

This score suggests that you are more Monotropic than about 5% of autistic people and about 75% of allistic people based on data from the initial validation study.

I’ll have to see about doing that. I don’t want to give reddit any clicks.

I have cats and no question about how they got there.

I am highly skeptical. My guess is that both the article and the research are highly flawed.