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My grandfather was different, he said "okay" for my diagnosis, read up on it, and when he read that Albert Einstein was suspected to have autism, he thought he had a bloodline of future scientists. Also he had a great trouble with saying "it's enough work for today", and was stubborn enough to work on something 18 hours if it meant it could be done under one day.
The "enough work" problem is the story of my childhood... I have way too many memories of sitting in the garage, or on the driveway, either freezing to death or being eaten alive by mosquitoes, at 2:30 a.m. while trying to hold a light absolutely still in just the right position...
“Puts some hair on your chest”
Me chest hairless at 40. What a lie.
To be fair, I often stay up too late trying to find some bugs in my OpenGL pipeline, so I likely inherited a lot from him.
Autism has always been here. But instead of labeling someone as autistic and trying to improve understanding and communication, people were like, "That's a weird dude."
Or worse yet, they were interned on an institution all their lives or were killed by police during a misunderstanding.
I was eccentric when I was seven years old. They had meetings about me.
Was diagnosed with ASD around 50 years.
God damnit. Now I'm an autistic grandpa.
My father had a workbench drawer marked "Pieces of Wire Too Short to Use."
Mind you, he was an electrician.
Those are for special occasions, like when you're doing electrical work in someone's house who you don't like much and feel like splicing 10 short wires together instead of using a long one.
Knowledge of sports statistics is a socially acceptable autistic hyper fixation.
Ever talked to one of these people? You mention a baseball player and they can tell you what their batting average was for each year of their decade long career, or they can tell you where every NFL player went to college; meanwhile I have trouble remembering my own phone number.
I have a friend who's sure I'm on the spectrum, and points at things I talk about as my current hyperfixation. Meanwhile I'm talking imprecisely forgetting detail.
If I'm on the spectrum, I suck at fixating on stuff
Keep in mind there's a strong correlation between ASD and ADHD. So that could just be the ADHD side of things.
I had to clean out my uncle's house when he passed away suddenly. Among many other things, this man had a box full of gum wrappers perfectly folded into little triangles. But don't worry, I've been assured he wasn't autistic, he was just a little antisocial and odd.
