Is this normal?

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Hi,
I tend to sometimes I guess analyze things that really should not matter. For example a lot of times when I meet my friends, and one of them comes late and makes up a reason, while others start having fun 5 minutes later, I start wondering why he was late, and for some cant stop even if takes days, I will even google reasons, and do anything I can to find out something that i shouldnt really care for, this happens same in the place where I am doing my internship, my boss gives me financial statements to analyze, and though I usually do a average to good job, I tend to highlight very small differences, which my boss does says is a good thing, but really doesnt matter. I dont care about how I do my reports on my internship, I rather like researching why things are done the way we do it. And I also get nervous once I get the feeling he observing me behind my back.

I would really appreciate it if someone can help me here as Im afraid these things might create problems for me in the future.


My question I guess is is this typical of an aspie or an autistic person(mind you I have a lot of other signs, but that would take me more time ,and more planning, as I am good thinking about ideas and plans, but bad in explaining them)

It is aggravating, but I usually set it aside as other people being flakes Rarely does it bother me enough to obsess about it unless the event was a big deal.

You're detail-oriented. While that puts you in the minority, I wouldn't say it's pathological.

Being a big-picture generalist has its own problems--overgeneralization, jumping to conclusions, missing important details. Just like the big-picture outlook has problems, so does the detail-oriented one. You've already pointed out one such problem in your tendency to get stuck on analyzing inconsequential problems, spending more time on them than is justified by the benefit you're going to get out of the analysis.

Being detail-oriented is common on the Spectrum. That's why one of the DSM criteria is "persistent preoccupation with parts of objects". That's a sign of a detail-oriented child, the sort of child who will focus on small things, likes to take things apart, likes to do things just-so.

An aspie with friends? Hmm. Seems like an oxymoron to me.

There is no such thing as normal...only those who fit in with the rules of the culture/society they live in and those that don't (with various shades of grey in between).

I do tend to over analyze a lot of things. I need very logical, rational reasons for a lot of things.