Why do neurotypicals expect us to work at a steady pace?

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I think it's to do with them being conventional in their work habits and not relating to states of hyperfocus. I love it when I'm in such a state, but when it goes too far can spend days suffering the consequences, dealing with almost complete shut down. Therefore, any extra time gained through hyperfocus gets lost. I think those around me could see this and that's why they would keep interrupting with their opinions and exclamations on how I wasn't eating etc. I couldn't stop working and didn't want to.

It was interesting in the workplace. At one job I'd bring astronomy mags. to read when there was nothing to do, but the others would socialize, and just because they were physically active it looked like they were still busy. Once I got left alone and in charge for a week, then really let loose doing extra work.

I've experienced this, yes. I've finished a set task at work very quickly (and accurately) and people have seemed almost unhappy about it, as if they were more concerned about whether someone worked in a 'normal' way than whether the work was done.

I don't understand why teachers and work would want everyone to work at the same pace. I mean in my school, if you finished your school work, the teacher had you work on your other school assignments or take out a book to read. I can't think of any teacher I had that made one of their students do their work over because they finished before everyone else. It was either working on other school assignments they haven't finished yet or reading a book.

flashback to High school where I used to within the first couple of weeks of class read the entire textbook. The teacher would get mad at me, as if they called on me I wasn't paying attention They saw me reading the class textbook, but what was I doing? But I related to the book a lot better than a teacher standing up front reading it a few pages per day. [[This was for classes like science, history, economics where the book is mostly prose. I always HATED and sucked at math.]]

Once the few weeks were over, then i would get bored

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.