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Question: Is the ability to consistently take in the big picture while taking in the details pretty normal?

So Autism/Monotropism is the ability to focus on the close things, right? The details. I got that. Can't see much outside of it but I got that shit in spades.

But I'm also realising in a lot of areas, I have the opposite. Taking-in-the-bigger-picture-tropism. How do I explain this?

Imagine that this is the sliding scale for initial attention span, with 1 at Autism for detailed focus while I guess neurotypical people would sit in the middle. They don't take in too little, they don't take in too much, it's juuuust right.

[Detail focused] 1---------5 [standard focus] ---------10 [wide lens].

A wide lens is like... "Don't sweat the small stuff cos it's all small stuff." On a Universal level, and also in context of what I'm focused on at the time.

It has taken me a long time to habitualize the wide lens but I'm finding it invaluable in pairing with my detailed focus. Have I always had this ability to see wide lens but I just lacked the understanding/maturity/whatever to really do it consciously?

I also wonder if one exists because of the other. I find I need the details of the thing, because I need to understand its function in the grand scheme. That's the best way I can put it. I need details because I need to know its purpose and place.

E. G. I need to know why a component of a car is there in order to understand the car. But as I learn about the component, I realise I'm always self checking myself to confirm that this fits into a larger pattern.

I know this also comes from my learning disability. It's weird saying that, because to me it doesn't feel like a disability. But whatever it is, I don't instinctively know or understand some things right away like neurotypical people do.

Spacial measurement for example. I have an amazingly rich inner life, I have hyperphantasia. But when I'm required to explain, measure, or draw a room? I need every part broken down to its very basic components to get it.

Sure, it sounds like it sucks. But by the time I understand the subject, often I understand it far better and on a much deeper level than others. So I've been slow initially, but by the end I'm way ahead.

The micro and macro lens both play a huge part in that. I can't see the bigger picture until I understand all the tiny marks that made it. And then when I see the bigger picture I really fucking see it. And I know why every mark is in its place. It's Magic Eye but for brilliant idiots like me.