are aspies good at predicting the future.

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Are aspies or neurotypicals better at predicting the future ? I always observe patterns in things that happen in my life and can somehow predict whats going to happen next by studying the patterns.

Anyone could predict the future, nothing to do with having AS or being NT. It's no point waiting to see how many Aspies here say they can predict the future then inventing a new Aspie trait from it, without asking NTs if they are just as likely to be able to do the same thing.

Er, predicting the future isn't possible.

One second...let me focus....channeling cosmic energy...
I hereby predict that someone will reply to this thread shortly! Let's see if my unscientific test yields any results

The sun will raise tomorrow.

I'm holding an empty box that formerly had Eclipse Mints in it. I predict that as soon as I let go, it will fall onto my desk.

*pause*


Well what do you know, I'm psychic!

Expect many threads like this after Touch airs.

I think if you see patterns in things it seems like you can predict the future, but really it's just that everything repeats. Even the Universe repeats itself. Human behaviour can get really predictable.

I'm tired and that's the best I cans say today.

I can predict the past.

I admit, doesn't pull as big an audience.

This will eventually lead to a topic discussing if Dr. Manhattan has Asperger syndrome. You know, all that about him being a puppet who can see his strings...

my last accurate prediction, was back in the early 90s i predicted that ross perot would drop out of the presidential race, a week before he actually did.

Even predicting known occurrences is only a logical deduction of events in succession (1 + 1 must equal 2), which leads us to think it'll always be that way now. It doesn't have to always be that way.

The sun doesn't have to rise tomorrow, it's just that since it has as far back as we remembered, we think that it will tomorrow.

We do this to help our minds cope with the real unpredictability of everything, well, that's what I think there, but the point still stands.

Dillogic speaks wise. Predicting the future is very possible; knowing the future is a lot less likely.

Exactly. The ability to predict the future is crucial to survival for many species. The ability to learn (which is not unique to humans) is entirely dependent on the ability to predict the future.

I do the same as the OP, but I don't think it's related to AS and I do think most people do it.

I would go a lot farther than that and say everybody does it with the possible rare exception of people with very profound mental retardation. And even then I could be wrong. They may see patterns too. It's possible you may have to be literally anencephalic (which is quickly fatal) not to see patterns and predict the futuure from them.