Yes, but not immediately. I am seen as obviously odd, but friendly, like a very big dog. I frequently have people stop me in shops to get help getting something off a shelf or finding something in the store, though I don’t mind at all, I enjoy helping people. I also get asked for directions all the time in public, a couple of times a week on average, and according to other people I know that is far more than they have. I guess I just have that “open face” people talk about, and I also make more eye contact than NTs because of masking, so I think people take that as an invitation.
Also, once people talk to me for a while, and I mean like 15-20 minutes, they tend to clock that something is up. I know a lot of things in many areas thanks to the ADHD interest in just about anything, so I can speak from a relatively informed position on many more topics than people expect. They think I am just like them because I know a comparable amount about their favourite topics as they do, so obviously it must be equally important to me as it is to them. Given a fairly short time they will watch me interact with someone else and see the same thing happen and have that moment of confusion because I am interested in too many things.
After a little while of knowing me people refer to me as a wikipedia on wheels or google with a face. If I don’t know something I am always prompt to say so, but if you ask me again later that day I have likely gone and fixed that hole and have something useful to say about it, and sometimes people do exactly that. I feel like a very odd LLM in a body running on 40 watts and being surprisingly efficient.
I have experienced the same, getting approached often when I walk around with a smile, which at some times got pointed out as weird. I mostly enjoy doing it though as people approach me often, and by expressing interest shared their life experiences within minutes of meeting.
Before I quit speaking with people for a long time I got super good at assuming how persons brains made connections, and what they are most likely connected to, so I spoke in concepts which I figured they are aware of, just by noticing their vocabulary, accents, and intonations.
I got told it seems like I know people (within minutes of meeting them :)
I also enjoy expressing when I do not know something or only something and figuring it out then.
Yes, but not immediately. I am seen as obviously odd, but friendly, like a very big dog. I frequently have people stop me in shops to get help getting something off a shelf or finding something in the store, though I don’t mind at all, I enjoy helping people. I also get asked for directions all the time in public, a couple of times a week on average, and according to other people I know that is far more than they have. I guess I just have that “open face” people talk about, and I also make more eye contact than NTs because of masking, so I think people take that as an invitation.
Also, once people talk to me for a while, and I mean like 15-20 minutes, they tend to clock that something is up. I know a lot of things in many areas thanks to the ADHD interest in just about anything, so I can speak from a relatively informed position on many more topics than people expect. They think I am just like them because I know a comparable amount about their favourite topics as they do, so obviously it must be equally important to me as it is to them. Given a fairly short time they will watch me interact with someone else and see the same thing happen and have that moment of confusion because I am interested in too many things.
After a little while of knowing me people refer to me as a wikipedia on wheels or google with a face. If I don’t know something I am always prompt to say so, but if you ask me again later that day I have likely gone and fixed that hole and have something useful to say about it, and sometimes people do exactly that. I feel like a very odd LLM in a body running on 40 watts and being surprisingly efficient.
I have experienced the same, getting approached often when I walk around with a smile, which at some times got pointed out as weird. I mostly enjoy doing it though as people approach me often, and by expressing interest shared their life experiences within minutes of meeting.
Before I quit speaking with people for a long time I got super good at assuming how persons brains made connections, and what they are most likely connected to, so I spoke in concepts which I figured they are aware of, just by noticing their vocabulary, accents, and intonations.
I got told it seems like I know people (within minutes of meeting them :)
I also enjoy expressing when I do not know something or only something and figuring it out then.
Thank you for sharing!