What patterns do you see?

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i like when the second two digits of a license plate can be related to the first two. Such as 4625 4+6 = 2 x 5 ... Or sometimes when its like 9325 and then I can just make it mean something like 5+2+3 is 10 and the 9 ahead of it makes a sequence and it works to make 6 7 if you subtract the first two and add the second two.

I've been finding typos in a text we are using. This is how my prof replied to the last one I brought to his attention:


"Thanks for this; that typo has been there for quite a while and it is amazing that neither I nor anyone else has spotted it."

LM

The jury is still out on whether I am officially on the spectrum or not, since day to day is pretty easy for me, but one of the most compelling things I have to support that I am (aside from mild face-blindness and sensory issues) is the way I am with number patterns.

When I was young I never had decent grades in math. However, over the years I've discovered that my mind so naturally floats through patterns people use to do math that when I'm in the zone I can somehow give the answer without thinking about the problem at all. I noticed this first when we started doing algebra in middle school, but by the time I was in high school I was even predicting what problems the teacher was going to make up for us next based on the patterns he used to make them.

The oddest part about all of this for me is that it seems to take LESS thinking for me to be able to do these pattern recognition than it does when I am calculating normally. It happens so subconsciously in fact that I actually thought I had psychic powers at first. HAHAHA!

The one sad thing is that it's either on or off for me and I can't control the switch well. Over the years I've clung to types of math that encourage it (calculus, statistics, etc.), but still, when I take standardized tests it's a 50/50 flip as to whether or not I'll score perfectly in the entire math section or score below average.

I'm not sure if you'd call that qualities of a savant or not. I know it is the rarity, even among people on the spectrum. I'm just weird I guess.

Once my cousin got a heavily patterned carpet fitted. It was a supposedly random pattern, but to me it clearly repeated.

I was one of the first people to see it and (in my typical untactful way) blurted out that it was awful with all those dark marks on it.

He couldn't see them, so I pointed them out. He said it was part of the pattern, I pointed out the repeats without the dark marks, then he could finally see what was so obvious to me. He agreed that it was badly stained and called the carpet company.

The shop manager called to see the stains, but my cousin had "lost" them, couldn't point them out and kept the carpet in embarrassment, although once I pointed them out again he could see them.

I hated it, the stains were so obvious to me, dark grey smears several inches each, I couldn't understand how he could possibly miss it!

Like mentioned in previous posts, broken patterns are very obvious, they jar against the smoothness of order and are uncomfortable to look at.

Some of you may be interested in Simon Baron Cohen's theory on Hyper Systemizing.
OCD Angel...What you are doing with the spoons is probably in one of the upper levels.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/518354_2

I seem to be a "heavy user" and it might be an addiction...to "sparkle" instead of "smack", lol.
I see different kinds of patterns, but a good example would be using OCDAngel's spoon's. On one level of SBC's theory they are seen like she sees them, and on another level like I see them. I would get something like a black board with a white dot for every dessert spoon but the soup spoon would be an imposition (oddness) and it would show up as a highlighted white or a highlighted different color, but probably not a highlighted red because a soup spoon is never going to be high risk.
There are many levels to this theory, so lots of different ways to visualize patterns.

I find my patterns to cut down on my stress level in some ways because they can show me pretty specifically how many problems there are in a given system, and I can test to see when they are eliminated. That way if there are a lot of distractions, and some of them seem very similar and not malicious at all, I can probably ignore all the similar ones (although it's kinda hard sometimes). If there is one red highlight in a social pattern then I know I have one major risky person. I can make an effort to figure out who that person is in a very logical way using lists of oddnesses and list of people who had access to those things over time.

Dont give away your powers, young Luke

Carpets, home wallpapers, growth rings in wood surfaces etc. I tend to move the shapes in my mind when I am looking.
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I also like ''which number comes next'' thing. I get high scores in IQ tests over internet, but I have no trust in those tests. So, I don't know whether I am above average or not.

If I see seemingly random image of dots, marks, images etc, I obsessively analyze it until I see a pattern. If I don't see it then I assume it has no pattern, then funnily enough I may lose interest in it, unless it is a beautiful piece of art.