Not just what are your autistic traits, but what are some of the silly things or compulsive things you do that you feel is unique/possibly related to your autism?

I always keep a 12’ measuring tape on me which is kind of a new thing in the past year. I fuckin love measuring things, and it makes me feel good to have JUST in case.

  • nyoooom@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I usually climb stairs 2 by 2, so everywhere I go regularly I end up memorizing if a flight of stairs has an even or odd number of steps, so that I start by 1 or 2 and always end up even at the top.

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      1 year ago

      Oh man this is kinda similar to a quirk I had as a kid. It’s kinda hard to explain, but in my old neighborhood we had sidewalks like these. So if you look at the first five rows of squares starring from the bottom of the picture, you’ll see that the color of the cement changes on the next row. Well the sidewalks I walked on, there would be like, 3 or 4 rows of blocks with a thicker kinda borderline between eachother. So when I would walk I would step one foot in front of the other in each block and count “one two three four, one two, one two three, one two three” etc, starting the count over every time I crossed the break or change in the cement.