Funny thing is, this has helped me enormously in my career. Everyone else is simply trudging along on assumptions and I swoop in with a dozen edge cases that we simply aren’t handling.
Schooling beats a specific kind of “curiosity” into you, while beating out a much more general “what if this assumption isn’t the case.”
Monkey-see, monkey-do is a powerful survival skill. For neurotypical people, it’s easy to just reproduce learned behaviors, without the reasoning behind them. I find interesting parallels with generative AI. You see it a lot in creative pursuits especially. So many people totally miss subtext. I think you also see it a lot while driving.
And it’s largely an education problem. There’s no reason neurotypicals can’t think critically, but it’s much easier to teach them to just slot into a role without any real understanding (Religion is very good at this). I think that’s also the reason conventional education can be so difficult for people that aren’t neurotypical. It’s meant to teach you what to do, not why
I definitely find myself to be at an advantage compared to most neurotypical people I have worked with. In aggregate though, the ease they have moving with the flow can end up being more of an advantage in the long term, especially in largely neurotypical spaces. It can be very frustrating
Funny thing is, this has helped me enormously in my career. Everyone else is simply trudging along on assumptions and I swoop in with a dozen edge cases that we simply aren’t handling.
Schooling beats a specific kind of “curiosity” into you, while beating out a much more general “what if this assumption isn’t the case.”
Monkey-see, monkey-do is a powerful survival skill. For neurotypical people, it’s easy to just reproduce learned behaviors, without the reasoning behind them. I find interesting parallels with generative AI. You see it a lot in creative pursuits especially. So many people totally miss subtext. I think you also see it a lot while driving.
And it’s largely an education problem. There’s no reason neurotypicals can’t think critically, but it’s much easier to teach them to just slot into a role without any real understanding (Religion is very good at this). I think that’s also the reason conventional education can be so difficult for people that aren’t neurotypical. It’s meant to teach you what to do, not why
I definitely find myself to be at an advantage compared to most neurotypical people I have worked with. In aggregate though, the ease they have moving with the flow can end up being more of an advantage in the long term, especially in largely neurotypical spaces. It can be very frustrating