Do you like analyzing?

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Very much so. What sort of aspie would I be had I not liked analyzing?
(quite a strange aspie, I would think).

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Eat. sleep. analyse. repeat.

Yup rabid analyser here, I analyse pretty much everything from social life, people, my own thoughts, films, religion, everything else.
Even though my ambition is to be a primary school special ed teacher, I think I would make a brilliant film critic, since every film I watch has to be analysed to death while I'm watching and I often pick out faults and nit pic at pointless details. I watched a film the other day that is set at christmas time but knew straight away it was filmed in early autumn since in one scene I saw a moth flutter in front of the camera.

I have been very interested in analyzing things to a certain extent in grade school where I liked to take objects and put then back together. When I got to high school and college, where I read literature, philosophy, sociology, psychology, statistics and research methodology, geography, law, botany, and later medicine, I enjoyed taking apart stories and ideas in non fiction works and reassembling then in a creative way which satisfied me and allowed me to pass examinations and stay on the good side of the teacher. In college I worked with three tutors in geography, sociology, and psychology and most of the courses I designed and carried out involved finding little bits of data, for instance, in my senior project in sociology, I created a historical geography of on city in upstate New York, and got my information from city directories, the census bureau, and the local historical society. The data I obtained on the name, location, and characteristics of each church I classified and marked up up on maps I created which depict the location and characteristics of the churches by decade 1790-1970, 1976. When I studied about medicine I focused on one or more diseases in turn and then set up a series of files by topic, for instance, triggers, aggravating factors, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and poured through all medical indexes on my topic of interest. Then I produced a list of citations with abstracts. After I had read all abstracts cited over and over again for weeks and about three hundred medical journal articles the same, I shut down my computer and went about my business and for several days slept on what I had learned. Then one night I awakened with an image of the finished book, my synthesis of what I had previously analyzed, in my mind. Then over several days I worked on my computer writing a my books on fibromyalgia syndrome, then head, neck, and facial pain syndromes, by looking into my mind at the visual image of the book that was there. I love thinking and being totally lost in thought as for me this involves thoroughly analyzing then synthesizing some limited and interesting body of knowledge. During these creative reveries is the only time I really feel alive.

I seem to analyze everything about situations. I even analyze movies I like. I don't know if this is the logical thinking.


Being a detective would involve this or being a lawyer or psychologist. Being a doctor would also involve it. That's all I can think of for now.

Definitely! Analyzing, recognizing patterns, and organizing information. Very satisfying.

Finance. Depending upon your skill/education level, bookkeeping, accounting and auditing all require a huge amount of numerical analysis.

The 'math' is just arithmetic, but there is an enormous amount of analysis and systemization involved.

For me, my first degree is in Mathematics, and I have been engaged in hard analysis since childhood. My current occupation is as a subject matter expert connected with self-government negotiations with First Nations--this means that I spend a great deal of my time engaged in research, analysis and development of fiscal information.

It's not so much that I like analyzing, but moreso that I cannot help it, lol. I do enjoy it at times, but at other times it can be unnerving... like, analyzing something while I'm trying to get to sleep, or not being able to simply listen to someone talk without constantly needing to interrupt for clarification of what they are saying.

I don't particularly like analysing. I prefer to use my intuitive understanding.

I am reluctant to equate love of analysing with being on the autism spectrum.

All I do all day

Oh absolutely.

In fact, analyzing is one of the key elements that helps me in my philosophical beliefs, exposing the truth about many things, and figuring out what to and not to do in business.

I always ask "how" and "why"...you'd be surprised all the answers I find out...many of which a lot of folks probably don't want to hear.

I don't like it at all, but I absolutely cannot help it. Even when I deliberately don't analyze, people STILL tell me I'm over-analyzing. I'm not even sure if I truly comprehend what it means not to analyze things because I'm not sure if I've ever actually refrained from doing it.

As far as jobs, can't help you there.

Don' let it bother ya dude; to not analyze means to just accept things as they are...methinks we Autistic folk are incapable of that