My main interest is origami, which has some real-life applications I'm interested in, but my math ability is too low to really act on. It can be used in engineering to devise methods of compacting objects into small spaces neatly, such as common things like airbags and crumple points on cars to maximize safety in a crash, to extreme uses such as creating a new space telescope lens that wouldn't make it into space efficiently without being "folded" and stents that can move through blood vessels more easily and expand when needed. I hope that one day I find a way to comprehend math well enough to understand these things at a beyond visual level.
As for practicality, I do have a good eye for measuring distances without instruments due to origami and having to find divisions on difficult models, but most of that practicality in my workplace goes into making tri-fold pamphlets (library) and unfolding documents for copying/faxing. I suppose I could sell my works if I packaged them in some way that people would by them. Paper figures alone seem like something people would shrug off or consider them cheap/too delicate than what I would have to charge in order to make a profit. I have done some classes for payment before, but it isn't sustainable enough to make a living off of.
My interest in gems, fossils, and rocks could lead to a paleontology type of job (what I wanted as a child), but it is very hard to get a good position, let alone if I could pass college math classes as prerequisites to graduate (part of the reason I'm seeking a diagnosis would be for job assistance/secondary education). The only other practical application of that I've used is to make small talk about people's jewelry when I can't find another topic. The same goes for my interest in biology, it mostly serves as trivia and answering reference questions, but it does help in dealing with animals.
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BAP: 103 aloof / 100 rigid / 103 pragmatic
AQ: 40 EQ: 8 SQ: 114
Aspie: AS-156/200 NT-56/200
RAADS-R: 189 total
Diagnosed 9/2013