Replying to myself to add a couple more traits I have which I suspect may be related: - I'm a slow task-switcher. Really painfully slow. Halting a fully spun u

Replying to myself to add a couple more traits I have which I suspect may be related: - I'm a slow task-switcher. Really painfully slow. Halting a fully spun up 'deep task' feels cognitively costly and pretty annoying too. Even conversationally, if I'm deeply engaged in thought and someone starts speaking to me unexpectedly, I often miss the first one or two words they say and need to infer them from the subsequent context. - Because of my "Listen, Think or Talk, Pick Any One (at a time)" limitation, people who've worked with me a while have joked that I operate with a "Ten-Second Tape Delay" because I'll often respond with a substantive thought or observation on the prior topic in the conversation. This is simply because once I listen to what's being said, task-switch to thinking about it, reach a conclusion, mentally compose what I'm going to say and then interject - it can be 10 or 15 seconds later. In my defense, the same people also tend to report that the wait is usually worth it. :-) - I've also noticed I seem to have a high degree of attentional blindness in visual contexts as well. For example, I'm unusually slow at any kind of "Where's Waldo" visual search in a dense field. I'm notoriously bad at finding a person I'm looking for in a crowd or at locating an unfamiliar product on a large, visually busy shelf. I need to basically chunk the visual field down and parse it block by block. I also don't generally prefer visually crowded environments. My own spaces tend to be pretty sparse and well-grouped. - On the strengths side, friends and co-workers report I'm often freakishly fast at transforming, combining and connecting abstract concepts and similar "brainstorming" type creativity tasks. Perhaps relatedly, I'm good at spatial manipulation. My wife says I have an abnormally good sense of direction which she calls "a god-like tab key" after the button to bring up the overhead map in many RPGs. All that said, those who meet me or work with me wouldn't describe me as neuro-atypical because I certainly don't come across as being unusual or 'on the spectrum' or anything like that, at least at first. While the traits described above are certainly strong, only those who know me well and over a significant period of time would notice these things. Interestingly, I'd say almost all of them have noticed, in part because one key to my success has been understanding my strengths and weaknesses and making sure those around me do as well.