Words are inadequate

Well, it wasn't just that of course... I got horrible grades in math all through school because they wanted me to "show my work," and I didn't have any "work," I just looked at the problem and saw the answer and wrote it down. I hated having to go back and fake writing down things that weren't the answer.

And then I graduated and that skill is actually really useful now. I can look at a problem and see what the program that solves it would look like, and just need to type it in.

Or, there were a couple times, I overheard some teachers talking about me: "you talk to him and it's like he doesn't hear you, or he doesn't know how to respond."

So I'm pretty convinced that I am somewhere on the spectrum, although (now) the higher-functioning end of it. That may be because of the environment of my parents' house...