Between the ASD and the ADHD, I’ve gotten incredibly good at making intuitive leaps to cover shortfalls in cognition.

Like, I’ll catch less than half of what’s said thanks to the auditory processing issues but I’m still able to follow a conversation as if my mind wasn’t wandering. I got bad marks in algebra for failing to show all the work that my brain solved unconsciously. Social deduction games can be weirdly easy and even my partners can’t tell when it’s my turn to play the imposter. Complicated stuff like software debugging comes easily, and I often find a solution taking shape in my mind before someone finishes explaining the problem.