Seeing Patterns- What kind do you see?

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I see lots of patterns throughout the day on the streets like for example:

-heart shaped leaves, heart shaped random garbage on the streets
- I almost ALWAYS see the times 11:11, 1:11, 9:11 (my boyfriend says I'm obsessed with numerology....so true, I find it fascinating)
- people I think look super similar to friends or people I've met, but I'm in a completely different country
- songs that start the same as others, having the same rhythm or tune in the beginning

I know there's more I'm missing but that's all I can come up with now. What about you guys? Just curious about what kind of patterns you see.

I "see" patterns more in language, in people's words and behaviour, in how things work or in how objects are to be used. That's my way of functioning in this world because all I understand and all I learn, I can do so because I have come to perceive a pattern or several patterns at work.

That is how my own strong affinity for patterns shows and it's working pretty well most of the time actually. Sometimes I think it's funny how my some of my abilities that allow me to manage being an autistic person in this world originate in the autism too.

It's a thing with colors and numbers mostly for me -

I always notice when there are a higher number of cars of the same color on the road and in parking lots.
(not just white cars and black cars).

I'll always notice when a few people at work wear the same color, but no one else seems to notice this.

Repeating numbers stand out for me too, and I also have an interest in numerology, but I haven't really studied it.

And sometimes I can see "theme" patterns in my life - for example, the same type of issue keeps coming up.

you just reminded me, I have a picture somewhere of some heart shaped leaves I had found a few years ago, but I don't have the pic online.

I used to collect 4 leaf clovers in the playground all the time at recess when I was in grade school.

Edit: for grammar correction

I see patterns all the time in everyday common objects; floors, walls, buildings, and even natural objects. Also involved with patterns are symmetry and alignment of objects. I also notice patterns in numbers.

I bled a heart-shape once.

Events are a big one for me... people say that history repeats itself but really this is just a shallow way of saying that there are patterns in events.

It's something that is fascinating to notice and pay attention to. As a result you can predict the future at times with a large margin of error but still it's pretty awesome!

I like to learn by pattern recognition. All the time, I am sucking pieces of data into my mind, and my mind plays with these pieces of data for awhile, and after awhile, patterns emerge, and I learn the patterns. Many of the patterns that emerge are the same as the patterns that are documented in the literature, but I did not read the documentation in the literature. I like to think more than I like to read, and I seem to think by pattern recognition more than other methods.

I think it is one of those strong ASD traits... to find patterns in everything.

I tend to pick out faces in everything that I see. I can look at the branches of a tree and make out a face shape within that.

You can thank your specialized human brain for that one! Humans are wired, from birth, to recognize faces everywhere. It's how we recognize the Virgin Mary in a grilled-cheese sandwich.

Patterns... me, I like spatial arrangements. Symmetry, three-dimensional especially. I like the way two regular patterns merge, like the patterns of lines on the sidewalk and the patterns of my walking, and how the spatial and temporal patterns lock. I like the way light reflects from a curved surface. I like the way numbers turn into shapes in my head, with weight that gets heavier and heavier as the numbers get bigger, and sometimes pops into four or five dimensions that I can't really see because I don't have a reference frame for them, and so experience as "density" and "significance". I like the way words in a well-written piece of writing have a cadence, and I like the rhythms of two dueling melody lines in a single piece of music. I like parabolas and circles and sine waves. I like squares and sharp corners and the way things fit together when you've packed them just exactly right, with no space in between.

Patterns are beautiful.

I see the number 11:11 all the time too. I also see patterns in everything - clothing, ceilings, tiles, tree bark, and of course clouds. I can spend a really long time staring at patterns, and yet other people don't seem to find it fascinating when I point it out.

I see patterns in supposedly random visual things like the floor and textures of walls and sometimes I have to get rid of or completely change a painting or drawing because I see a pattern or image that I didn't know I put in there when I was drawing it. I mean it just developed or if I did it on purpose it was completely subconcsicous. I see the bone structure under people's skin because I sort of automatically am analyzing the way thnigs and people are put together. Then when I want to draw stuff it is not as hard as it would be otherwise. I drew one of my fat cats this morning and her fat, skin and thick fur hide some of her structure and underlying patterns but it is still there. The patterns that hide behind or under other patterns are fascinating and make me want to "find" them. And so much it comes down to math and relationships between shapes or lines that I can't stop thinking about it until I have figured out why a drawing isn't just right. It is usually because I have goofed up a relationship and altered the pattern.
So, ya, I like patterns and stuff like that.

Speaking of 111's, here's a little number thing that's cool. If you take the last 2 digits of the year of your birth and add it to your present age, you will always get 111.

my son:98+13=111
my mother: 23+88=111
my sister: 56+55=111
my brother: 59+52=111

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♥♥♥ love ♥♥♥

81 + 30 = 111 <33333333333

I don't know why it works. I'm not a numbers person, but I thought it was cool.