Does your pattern recognition play a part in spotting people’s behaviors?

I have no idea if this is due to me being gifted or my hyper vigilance, so I’m curious to hear if this is a shared experience here.

Throughout the stages of my life, repeated cyclical behaviors in people were glaringly obvious to me. I can recall that as a child I’d notice every time X happens, a certain person would lie. Every time Y happens, this other person dismisses. This only advanced as time went on and even freaked my parents out a bit. As a teen, it got to the point where I thought maybe I was dumb or imagining things, because nobody else seemed to notice what I was noticing.

As an adult, the cycles became more defined and apparent. I can see people restarting another cycle, see what caused it to form, and predict where it will lead. Obviously I can’t predict the future nor am I trying to, but it’s clear as day when someone is going to pick up the same book as before and it’s just in a different sleeve.

When I was younger I’d try to address this with people (when it is a harmful pattern), I do not judge as I can see why these cycles were formed as a natural response in the first place, but overtime I realized most people don’t want to be made aware of them. They complain about the effects of the cycle, but rarely leave it. Everybody else doesn’t seem to notice or doesn’t seem to care. To me it’s as clear as seeing that a book is the color red. after speaking to others though, it can feel like I’m watching the same movie as them, but at completely different camera angle.

I thought maybe this was due to having a higher ability to recognize patterns, but it’s not an experience I see discussed often here. It seems like pattern recognition is more so noted in the quantitative or problem-solving sense, not so much in people and their behaviors.

Has your ability to recognize patterns contributed at all to how you perceive people and their behaviors? Have you found yourself noticing patterns and cyclical behavior in people?