Dichotomy

I've got this mental picture of how things are in this world. As it physically exists, as we move about in it and interact with people and things. The various disciplines that make up our education and careers....

They either relate to dealing with people and what is in the human mind  OR they deal with things and how they function. Subjective vs objective.

Now, your job may call upon you to function in both these realms but they're really separate and that's where I notice the division of my abilities as a person on the spectrum.

I deal much better with things. Why? I think because they're more tangible and absolute. Not saying that the "things" have to be real to the touch but they're real in the way a number on paper represents a real concept. Math problems, computer code, buildings, cars, flowers. I'm awesome at these things. Math, science, etc.

Now, the human side. We're talking art, literature, law, politics, etc. They're not black and white, they're subject to interpretation. There's people's whose jobs are solely to figure out what this stuff means. This is not really the realm of the autist. While I may be able to grasp these things, I will never truly master them because I don't fully understand how other human beings think. They're not predictable, they're not logical. I'm often perplexed at this. More later...