Do other people say you notice more detail than others?

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I've heard it lots of times. Mostly just in situations where I've noticed specific things that others overlook. A good example (not from my own life) was when someone I knew saw a spiderweb in her therapist's office and remarked on it, and it had apparently been there all week and the therapist hadn't noticed it at all. It's things like that.

I'm not sure if it's because they're "detail", but rather because nonautistic people have more of a tendency to use perceptual short-cuts. One of those is that their brains fill in a lot more of what they're seeing, than they realized, and more than we do (although our brains do it too, just less). So the therapist in question just had her brain filling in the structure of the room for her, so she wasn't even noticing changes in her environment because of that. It gives us an advantage in noticing things like that, but on the other hand it also makes us more prone to overstimulation because we perceive more information about the world than they do. (This is overall, of course. It isn't necessarily true of all of us, so when I say "us" I mean the kinds of autistic people this is true of.)

I do notice small things but i have no idea what would be considered abnormally so however...

This is an aspie trait that I do not have. I usually do not notice details at all. It's not that I don't see them, it's that I just don't think about them unless someone brings it up. If somebody has, for example, a garage door in their bedroom, it's not that I don't see it, I just don't think anything of it. But if you were to tell me "that's an odd place to put a garage door", then I would notice it.

I've never been able to answer these questions on tests and quizzes truthfully, because I don't talk to people enough for them to form opinions about me. But I know I notice small details a ton, wherever I go, whatever I happen to be doing. Whenever I go somewhere I'm constantly looking around everywhere, at everything, partly because of agoraphobia, so I need to know everything that's going on around me.

People have told me that I have a keen eye for detail in specific subjects, yes...

In particular, I have an obsessive need to sniff out grammatical errors, syntactic ambiguity, and the visibility of people's facial pores.
Aside from that, however, I'm essentially normal.

I hear that Aspies tend to notice details that others do not like license plate numbers, things with dates ect. This may be because I'm dyslexic, possibly have ADHD as well & have low vision but I tend to be oblivious to details. Even when details are poitned out to me; my brain has problems processing/registering em. sometimes. The seemingly ironic thing is that I have major OCD problems/issues but my OCD is sort of an adaptation because I tend to miss details

Yeah, people keep saying that. And then the next time I notice something they missed it's the same "No, I would have noticed if that had been there. You're misremembering, that can't be right" and "See, I told you, it's not there. You're just getting confused" and "Oh, over there? Wow, that's so small, how did you notice that?" and then again to "That's an incredible eye for detail you have there". You'd think eventually they'd stop arguing when I told them I noticed something but no, learning from personal past experience is apparently not easy for other people either.

I mean they may have read the same paper I did, they took the same time to read it as I did and they didn't skip pages any more than I did. But it's like their brain has a different filter and they literally did not see half the stuff I saw to a point where they're convinced there was no such article in there because they'd remember an interesting story like that. Mind you, I'm that way about people sometimes, but most people are much less interesting than funny articles about monkeys.

Yes, I often notice details but it seems just as often I can't find something right in front of me.

Yes, others have noted my attention to noticing details.

No one has ever told me this but I remember dates better and people have said I have a good memory when I remember stuff they don't remember. I was also known as the trivia queen when I was 14. I don't know if this is noticing detail.

If I am into something, I start looking at details and looking around. I also find it exciting to see things I have never noticed. Sometimes you catch movie mistakes that way or may notice a different scene in the movie was shot the same day as the other scene earlier in the movie because of where the characters are and what they are wearing or how they have their hair. This was in A League of Their Own and if I pointed this out to anyone, I bet they say they never noticed or I am good not even realizing I bet that I didn't even notice this until I was 19.

So while I am often oblivious to things around me because I get so into my own world and don't even care, I just don't notice details and I am shocked what has happened around me when I see my mother or someone telling what they saw. That's because they paid attention and they watched.

AS people are supposed to be good at these (because of our attention to detail). It's an embedded figure test...you have to find the smaller figure in the bigger figure. I can do these really quickly!

another one...
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Yes, attention to detail but then miss the obvious. It can be an aspie trait from what I understand, seeing the part and not the whole.

I am such an NLDer! I voted 'yes' but with me it ONLY applies to text.

For half the 80s and all of the 90s I worked as a legal coder - picking out names and other details in text. I consistently amazed people by finding the most minute, inconspicious details. Still do that when the situation calls for it. I also notice grammatical mistakes much more than I would like.

However, outside of that I'm the complete other extreme. When I took an IQ test as part of my NVLD diagnosis I had to copy a drawing, which I did passably. But when then asked to reconstruct it from memory I did so badly it wasn't even measurable. I'm moderately faceblind and on top of that don't notice changes to people's appearance. Or geographical landmarks. Or anything else.

But I'm uncanny with text.

Ah, NVLD.