what i think autism is like

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Our senses are extreme. we live in a fantasy world. our personalitys are governed by our obsessions. We cant act naturally so we have to obsess over one thing. I have rarely had a moment in my life where i wasnt obsessed with something. hence why alot of us are nerdy. our peripheral vision is terrible. people on my campus spot me all the time and i never see them. i just realized today how bad our peripheral vision because our concentration is insane. Or maybe thats just me. It feels like others talk with thier minds. We are all messed up in the head, but bright in our own ways. Every situation is a social situation, but I see it as a task to be done.

I didn't even know the peripheral vision one was "a thing", but can definitely attest to people telling me they waved to me in my car or in a hallway and I "ignored them". Actually If I didn't wave back, I was simply unaware.

Hm, odd. I've heard some Autistic people have better peripheral vision than "central vision".

It also feels like we act consciencely in the world. Most people act subconsciously. We act conscienscously because we are high functioning. If we were low functioning, we would be like those that need taken care of. That is why our behaviors come across as awkward and such. I feel as if within miniutes people can tell we are on the spectrum. If we didnt have our obsessions I feel like we couldn't function. Or we'd be super hypersexual or something. I found this thread fascinating.viewtopic.php?t=122615

I think my peripheral vision is ok but I have very bad depth perception. I'm not sure if it's that I live in a fantasy world or just that I shut the real world out to degrees.

My peripheral vision is excellent and I definitely don't live in a fantasy world. I'll agree with obsessions though

I think what's happening is we're seeing too much and can't filter out all that noise to notice people.

Autism to me is that our senses are so bombarded that our brains have developed a coping mechanism by making us have a great attention to detail, so we just look at what it right in front of us. This extends to having a very focused interest in one subject and usually on just one part of that subject. It also makes us resistant to any changes because the comfort of routine takes away all that chaos we face everyday by just going outside and experiencing our environment.
It's much like the Intense World Syndrome theory that says we're experiencing so much that our lack of empathy is caused by having too much of it, or rather too much emotion so we shut down.

And there are also a large number of neurological studies that have found the social areas in typical brains are underdeveloped in autism.

I disagree with the OP.

This is what it feels like in this body:

1. Noise- the noises small children make, bikes, angle grinders, and most of all, people who knock on windows. It grates me

2. Extreme focus- everything is in HDR vision, always 24/7.

3. Difficult to hear people saying stuff, especially when I am busy. I have to "replay" the sounds in my head to avoid having to ask them to repeat themselves.

4. Obsession over projects, and stressing whether there will be a family gathering, or other social engagement that will ruin the plans or mean I will have less time to spend on project.

5. Stressing about gift shopping (a yearly occurrence)

I guess my peripheral is bad because im so obsessed with one thing haha. I guess i got things i gotta work on

I'm not really obsessed over anything. Either that, or i'm completely oblivious to what i'm obsessed over.