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ImMelody
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 Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 1:46 pm Post subject: Do you have Savant-like Abilities? |
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I'm curious (from the link between asperger's and genius thread) how many people feel they have savant-like abilities... Not only if they feel they have them, but what they are. Just call me curious.. I've always been rather inquisitive!
I feel I do have two savant-like abilities. I used to (that isn't to say I can't now.. but I haven't had the practice) be able to do calculus and differential equations in my head. I would do it rather quickly actually and could just write down the answer. Luckily for me, those classes were taught by the same person, and he knew me well enough to know I was really doing the work in my head.. When I started doing that at a university level, I kept failing.. Professors don't care if you got the answer right.. They just want to see how you got there. It's really a crying shame..
The second ability that has been described as savant-like is my ability to cook, and make recipes. I typically can put together a really good meal without ever thinking about it. I just *know* which ingredients to mix together. I realized how I do this when my mom called me up one day and said "What can I make with X food and Y food?" After getting her to email me a list of seasonings, I was able to smell all of the ingredients in my head.. I put them together and told her what to put in.. Apparently the dish was extremely good. Though, I would never know as I'm in a totally different state than her. She wrote the recipe down and still uses it. So yeah...
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Brunny
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Joined: Jul 12, 2008
Age: 43
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| Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 2:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Unfortunately no. I'm intelligent, got a good degree and everything but nothing super-impressive like that. |
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makuranososhi
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Joined: May 13, 2008
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Location: Arizona
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It would be a nice thought... but my facility with math and music does not make me a savant. I use my brain differently, and often I like the results, but it is not akin to the incredible processing and skill that savants possess. My IQ tests as very high, but that is a damn arbitrary measure of one's potential... not particularly fond of it, especially considering how misunderstood the entire concept is as a whole. Generally, I see savants as at least one-two standard deviations above where my best strengths are as a benchmark.
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Danielismyname
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No.
(I would have liked calendar calculation with this Autism thingy, but O well, one can't choose these things.) |
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-JR
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| Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 2:10 pm Post subject: |
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This is a funny poll.
Why isn't there two options for the "no"?
"No, I am an aspie."
"No, I am an autie."
And perhaps, "No, I am NT."
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Perhaps you are under the assumption that all aspies have "savant-like" abilities? Maybe this is true, and I should go find mine? Cos I ain't got any that I know of, unless someone could kindly point them out to me...
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ImMelody
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| Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 2:14 pm Post subject: |
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| -JR wrote: | This is a funny poll.
Why isn't there two options for the "no"?
"No, I am an aspie."
"No, I am an autie." |
Honestly... It's an oversight.. I wonder if I can edit it... or will that totally screw it up?
Would the things I listed be considered to those of you who answered to be savant like abilities? Or would that just mean I'm more tuned into those things?  |
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makuranososhi
Purple Monkey Dishwasher
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| Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 2:18 pm Post subject: |
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The cooking sounds more an extremely intuitive passion for you; I would be very hesitant to group it in with savant-type abilities at all. Please don't take offense. As for the calculus - this is much more interesting and relevant in my mind. I can do two and three variable algebra in my head most of the time - it isn't a common ability, but I don't find it to be on par with such an extreme of ability. To do differential calculus in your head is starting to tread that line on possibility. However, I am far from qualified to judge.
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Brunny
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| Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 2:21 pm Post subject: |
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| I did A-level maths. I'm pretty sure doing calculus in your head qualifies as savant-like. Certainly way beyond my abilities anyway. |
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-JR
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| Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 2:23 pm Post subject: |
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| ImMelody wrote: | | -JR wrote: | This is a funny poll.
Why isn't there two options for the "no"?
"No, I am an aspie."
"No, I am an autie." |
Honestly... It's an oversight.. I wonder if I can edit it... or will that totally screw it up?
Would the things I listed be considered to those of you who answered to be savant like abilities? Or would that just mean I'm more tuned into those things? |
Hehe, worth a try. Didn't mean to point it out so bluntly there. 
As for cooking NOT being savant-like, I'd like to play devil's advocate (cos I'm not really sure about this), and compare it to music. Knowing which notes to place with other notes is part of the pattern recognition found in aspies. Could the same not be said for cooking? Different scales of course, but I think maybe some might not link cooking with savant because cooking is done so often in a mediocre way, and people have a hard time believing a seemingly ordinary talent can be so "special."
I think if it's advanced enough, perhaps it is, or maybe "sub-savant" like. There might be a good criteria to find on the web somewhere to compare your ability to. I'd like to see an answer here, seems kind of interesting.
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Bradleigh
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I don't know, I have an odd way of doing maths in my head, when we worked on a class problem, I often got quite ahead of others, I whent through ninth grade without a calculator and was still put in an advance class the next year.
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Angnix
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Flash counter, I'm probably Aspie.
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liloleme
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No, nothing amazing...Im just your average run of the mill aspie  . I have an excellet memory for things that Im interested in and I learn very quickly but I think that is pretty typical. I kind of consider myself a big dork actually  |
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Hodor
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Age: 19
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If an ability to scare people off is a Savant ability, then yes, I have one.
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Jenk
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"Savant syndrome is exceedingly rare, but a remarkable condition in which persons with autism, or other serious mental handicaps, or major mental illness, have astonishing islands of ability or brilliance that stand out in stark contrast to their overall disability. The condition can be congenital or be acquired by an otherwise normal individual following CNS injury or disease. It occurs in males more frequently than in females in an approximate ratio of 6 to 1. The skills can appear suddenly, without explanation, and have been reported as sometimes disappearing just as suddenly. It is useful to put these special skills into the following three categories: Splinter Skills where the individual possesses specific skills that stand in contrast to their overall level of functioning, Talented Savants where the individual displays a high level of ability that is in contrast to their disability, and Prodigious Savants which involves a much rarer form of the condition, where the ability or brilliance is not only spectacular in contrast to the disability, but would be spectacular even if viewed in a non-disabled person. It is very likely that many savants do go unnoticed, and depending upon whether the three categories above are recognized, estimates of the incidence of savant syndrome can vary widely. In the case of prodigious savants it has been estimated that there may be fewer than 100 cases reported in the world literature in the past 100 years."
So a splinter skills a polite way of letting us know we have a talent that disabled ("differently-abled") persons should not possess
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Fnord
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Do you have Savant-like Abilities?
( ) No.
(·) Yes, I'm an Aspie.
( ) Yes, I'm an Autie.
Suggested other answers:
( ) No, and I am an Aspie.
( ) No, and I am an Autie.
( ) No, and I am an Aspie and an Autie.
( ) Yes, and I am neither an Aspie nor an Autie.
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