I think this is normal, but friends and family say it could be autism?

Question

Okay, first off, I always thought that everyone saw what they heard, but they don't. Secondly, they say I pay attention, and obsess, over things that "don't matter." Also I pay attention to minute details and can remember something 98% correctly. I am in 3 advanced classes: Adv. Science, Adv. English, and Adv.Algebra. I was told that I say things totally unrelated to the topic, though I always say something related, I can find a way that it's related. I can't solve every day problems with ease, but I can solve big time problems in anywhere from 5 seconds to five minutes. (5 mins is rare) That's really about it. I don't see how that's un-normal, but if it is, what causes it?

Answer 1

no your not autistick unless you can't do simple stuff like clean your room or other stuff it sounds to me you are useing more persentage of your brain however there might be a possibility you have APD or ADD if you go off on stuff get tested but your definatly not autistic

Answer 2

All geniuses are autistic.  They are born with their safe modes turned off and experience the birth trauma unfiltered with their senses taking everything in.  They therefore have a wish to regress to the state they were in just previous to birth--back in the womb.  That's the essence of autism; regression to a previous state of emotional development.  That's where the term PDD comes from.

Anyway, the above hypothesis was Bruno Bettelheim's.  It makes sense to me.  I have never met a genius who wasn't at least a little peculiar; sort of like you.  

Answer 3

you're in advanced english and you say un-normal instead of abnormal?

Edit: well I mean my point is, I dont think you have autism.

Answer 4

Think of your brain like a computer.  There are different compartments.  Each compartment works both independently and interdependently upon the next.  What I see in some intelligent people, and especially in people with great memories, is a lacking in social ability.  The social parts of the brain include automatic thoughts that come to one in social situations, like this:  

"He's looking at my shoes, why?  He is looking off; maybe he is busy or doesn't want to talk.  I am talking too much; I better let them say something before their brain gets too tired from listening to all of my talking.  I'll bet he/she is tired today because she seems cranky.  I better not wear a wrinkly shirt; people don't like looking at wrinkly clothes.  I better make sure I say Hi in a nice tone to my friends or they will think I am mad at them.  If I act like that, then people will think such and such about me, and I don't want them to think I am like that."

You see my point here?  Basically, many people are lacking in these kinds of thoughts, and rather speak kind of impulsively, and this leads to issues in social interactions.  As much as the person is thinking they are just like everyone else, they are not picking up on social cues, and reacting to them.  Most people have these kind of thoughts and are doing little social body language, and tones, etc. which reflect they have these thoughts.  Thus, its a matter of listening more to what your friends say, and kind of paying attention to social "rules" which are not really talked about much, they just kind of are in people's thoughts.  My guess is that you don't spend much time on these thoughts, and your peers notice it.  I think that when one spends a lot of time studying or thinking about "book-type" knowledge, they use up some of the energy that they would otherwise be using for social thoughts.