It's one of those things that are like shitting. Almost everyone does it, but if you do it way more often than everyone else, or it affects you so much it detracts from your everyday life in ways that it doesn't for the average person, there might be something going on.

This may come as a shock but quite essentially everyone is winging everything with a subset of never complete information.

Now i find autism makes me see the patterns more easily between usefull or counter-efficient steps and the details of actual performance-quality.

Combined with often being told “my intuitive plan” is not the correct “default intuitive way to do things” it sets you up to hyperfocus on getting all steps right with ptsd anxiety about getting them wrong.

So we try real hard and question every step to navigate towards quality/success but it takes a lot of mental energy to do so.

Things get much easier once you obtain “fuller” understanding off the concepts at play. Then you can intuitively tell what components your plan needs and what things aren’t relevant.

The way I believe most neurotypical have it is that by doing things just like everyone else they obtain the same average performance-quality and they are not criticised for the commonly shared inaccuracies.

Because they demonstrated the ability to do the task within expected norms. they perceive this as them understanding the task. And will now proceed to call you insane if they ever see you skipping step 4 and oh god why did you flip it upside down?

Yes

No it's universal, gaining expertise and troubleshooting. Fixing something without knowing is just getting lucky.