What are your Aspie/Autistic skills or talents?
I'm pretty good at writing. My grammar was always near-perfect and I immediately spot any errors. So I always had good marks in German (my mother tongue). I also tend to pick up foreign languages pretty fast, for example I started to learn Arabic a few months ago and can already talk in whole sentences. I also have near to no German accent in any foreign language. When talking English, I sound very American (though I've never been there), and my Arabic sounds very Egyptian, so I've been told.
I'm a good singer, but I don't know if that's Aspie-related.
that's an interesting point you raise. I'm half British half German (Bavaria) but I grew up in the UK. I count English as my primary language but have a noticable Oberboarisch accent in German and I'm often told I sound completely authentic in that respect. Living in Switzerland I've picked up Bärndütsch pretty well and again people complement me on my pronunciation. I can also say a few choice phrases in Walliserditsch but don't have a big enough vocabulary in what is one of the most hardcore dialects out there.
I love drawing. I can draw for hours...I just re-activated my Etsy account. There are only two on there thus far, and the pictures aren't the best, but if you click on them, you can zoom in on the detail. I have dozens more I need to get around to scanning. Here's the link:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/ResolveArt
chtucker18
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Joined: 31 Jan 2006
Age: 36
Gender: Male
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Can this be attributed to your microwave's superiority, or is there a technique you employ? I, too, would enjoy adding 2 seconds back into my day....
It's just me, being awesome.
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My aspie skills:
exceptionally good memory: it was eidetic during my childhood but alas "broke" when i was ten or so (i thought i was having a never breakdown, and then promptly had one.)
ridiculous levels of conscientiousness: i've been know to clean up trash left by other people while at starbucks (or other similarly public locales), because that extra minute of my time can make like easier for the people who work there.
i'm very good with languages, including English. i suppose this makes sense as i learned how to speak two languages at the same time usually early and with that precociousness of vocabulary level that is typical among aspies.
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I can do pretty much anything with electronics, computers or engineering. Bring me something that's broken and I can probably either fix it or design and build a better replacement. However when it comes to art, music or anything imaginative I'm utterly useless. Ask me to make up a story and all you'll get from me is a deer in the headlights stare.
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I write songs and poems; I just need to find strategies in order to keep me able to consistently do so though and enjoy it at the same time.
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I'm pretty good with computers as well and I'm sure it's Aspie-related, but nothing supernatural, like some people seem to have. I feel envious of some of the people who have ridiculously good memory or maths or language skills!
Knitting?
Busted!! Yep. I once applied for a proofreading job but wrote "POOFREADER" on the application.
You could've played it off. You could've told the interviewer that you can detect poofs, and then just to prove it, tell them you're talking to one right now. Oh, right... you probably wouldn't get the job then either.
yeah... I can't see that one going down well! Off-topic, but I have to say, houseofpanda, your cat totally looks like mine!
I have a weirdly intense sense of Art. I don't have the hand fine motor skills to do much visual art, but I totally f***ing get all art except music. I love music and can judge its quality in an intuitive way, but I cannot pick out the specifics of music. I don't get the multiple layers and things like rhythm and melody and beat. It's a sensory filtering thing, I think. Even so, I can pick out what is and isn't good art in music, as in everything, with a good explanation generally. It's not just a preference thing either. It applies even to artistically sound things I cannot stand. For instance, I cannot deny that there are a multitude of skilled musicians in the rap and country genres, but lyrics are too all important in music for me to listen to either genre (really any popular music) regularly. That's really the reason I have restricted musical tastes: most musicians aren't nearly as lyrically competent as they are musically talented.
Unfortunately, the only art I can really make is writing. I'm quite good at that, though. I sometimes forget how good I am at fiction writing until I get into an environment like a creative writing classroom, and it's 20 inferior writers who can't figure out how to critique a short story I feel I need to rewrite and rework. It comes so naturally to me that I sometimes take for granted that other people struggle with it. o_O
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Monkeybuttorama
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Unfortunately, the only art I can really make is writing. I'm quite good at that, though. I sometimes forget how good I am at fiction writing until I get into an environment like a creative writing classroom, and it's 20 inferior writers who can't figure out how to critique a short story I feel I need to rewrite and rework. It comes so naturally to me that I sometimes take for granted that other people struggle with it. o_O
For the music, have to tried listening to things in languages you don't speak? I have the same problem with lyrics, and I've found that things I don't understand are immensely enjoyable because I don't actually know what they are saying.
http://soundcloud.com/the-autie-musicia ... -tracy-jac
It's me playing Jaco Pastorius' "Portrait of Tracy". Solo bass, no effects used. Cell phone recording.
Sounds awesome, bro!
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