Finding hidden objects

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Ever since I was little, I've had the ability to go over to a clover patch, look down for between 10 seconds to a minute, and find a four leaf clover (if one is there to begin with). I've always loved hidden picture games, like in the Highlights magazines. Shapes just jump out at me when I look for them.

I seem to recall reading that a characteristic of ASD is being able to recognize patterns in things (I might be utterly misremembering that, since I can't find something say that again); is that what is meant by that, or does it mean some other kind of pattern?

Can anyone else find hidden objects very easily?

this is why i love rockhounding. picking things up off of the ground is totally my thing

I too have always been able to find 4 leaf clovers easily. As for the rest, yes I'd say so.

I like those spot the difference games. I literally spent hours doing them online. Is that kind of like a hidden object?

I am very good at finding things...maybe not 4 leaf clovers...but other stuff..

Some - not even the majority - of people with AS/HFA/classical autism have a very detail-orientated perception style. Instead of seeing a field of clover, they see one cloverleaf, another cloverleaf, another cloverleaf...

Despite that there are lots of people with autism who do not have a pronounced detail-orientated perception style, it is said to be a typical trait of autism to have this.

If this trait is strong and advantageous, it usually comes with the disadvantages of having trouble perceiving the 'big picture' spontaneously/intuitively, even have a hard time seeing it when you're given lots of time (depending on the rest of your autism and neurology).

I can't find things, even if they are staring me in the face. Must be my NLD side.

I think that I am good at finding mushrooms (popular in central Europe). It's some form of "background process" because I am able to see mushroom (mostly boletus) from distance 5-15m even when I am somewhere far away in my thoughts.

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