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VMSnith
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 Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 1:36 am Post subject: special abilities on the autism spectrum |
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Hey all,
Here is some research I pulled together, which indicates superior abilities which occur with autism. The research touches on visual, auditory, systemizing and other areas.
click here -> Gifts of autism |
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Danielismyname
I wish I were a classical nihilist
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| Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 1:52 am Post subject: |
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Memory, Hyperlexia and Calendar Calculation have been known for awhile.
From the friendly DSM:
| Quote: | | Sometimes special skills are present (e.g., a 4 1/2 year old girl with Autistic Disorder may be able to "decode" written materials with minimal understanding of the meaning of what is read [hyperlexia] or a 10 year old boy may have prodigious abilities to calculate dates [calendar calculation]). |
| Quote: | | In older individuals, tasks involving long-term memory (e.g., train timetables, historical dates, chemical formulas, or recalling the exact words of songs heard years before) may be excellent, but the information tends to be repeated over and over again, regardless of the appropriateness of the information to the social context. |
Asperger's and its rote-memory:
| Quote: | | Variability of cognitive functioning may be observed, often with strengths in areas of verbal ability (e.g., vocabulary, rote auditory memory) and weaknesses in non-verbal areas (e.g., visual-motor and visual-spatial skills). |
| Quote: | | By adolescence some individuals with the disorder may learn to use areas of strength (e.g., rote verbal abilities) to compensate for areas of weakness. |
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Malsane
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| Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 2:01 am Post subject: |
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| I have high spatial intelligence, but I think that that's because I didn't have glasses until I was 15, and my vision is 20/100. So I had great depth perception, but terrible visual clarity at any sort of distance. I'm also really good with pitches. In my flute lessons, we would do an exercise. One person plays a note while the other is looking away (so you can't see the fingerings) and the other plays the note back. Usually it takes the person several tries to guess the note. It never took me more than two tries, I usually got it right the first time. Once, the person playing the primary note played an F#, and I had not yet been taught the fingering. I put my flute to my lips, and stopped, then asked if the note was F#. She was cheating. |
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Xanderbeanz
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| Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 3:24 am Post subject: ... |
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| i have the ability to listen to a song, hear all the individual layers, analyse it on the fly then probably play it back to you on any of the instruments (or sequenced if it's an instrument i don't play) it's useful for learning songs and finding out how to compose ^.^ |
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Jenk
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dadum
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| Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 8:15 am Post subject: ... |
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This danish company is really cool: (I can't link it cause I don't have 5 posts yet :p)
specialisterne dot com
Their concept is succesfull and competitive on real business therms and have been copied in both denmark and sweden. (most of the other ones limit themselves to AS though) |
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LePetitPrince
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| Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 9:03 am Post subject: |
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| Autisnobs' propaganda. |
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Psimulus
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Their have been some throughout history who are thought to of had apparently psychic abilities due to a very developed intuition. A fictional example would be "Monk", or "House". Sherlock Holmes is a good example as well. The term for this would be Psychic/Intuitive. Deduction is also a factor. I believe that a mind that unlimits its self possesses the capacity for many great things. 
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ValMikeSmith
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My special ability is inventing futuristic technology mostly by myself
like Tesla and Buckminster Fuller did. |
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Danielismyname
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| Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 1:11 pm Post subject: |
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As for me, I don't think I have anything special due to the ASD, except for perhaps a decent memory for things I'm interested in* (i.e., rote memory).
*This tends to be a common thing for those with an ASD, AS and "HFA" especially. Which kinda makes sense due to how much time we spend on our interest; we're bound to absorb and remember the information, as we don't do much else. |
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ooOoOoOAnaOoOoOoo
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| Psimulus wrote: | | Their have been some throughout history who are thought to of had apparently psychic abilities due to a very developed intuition. A fictional example would be "Monk", or "House". Sherlock Holmes is a good example as well. The term for this would be Psychic/Intuitive. Deduction is also a factor. I believe that a mind that unlimits its self possesses the capacity for many great things. |
I have this gift and have found work in the psychic fields in the past. I tend to intimidate people with this ability and they think I find the info from some other source. Sometimes I know their information a priori, have trouble sifting it out and say it/write it without thinking (depending on if I am talking or writing). You would not believe how much this has happened to me online!
I think it's intuitive gifts and I compare it to animals who have superior sensory perception that gets translated into their consciousness explaining how they seem to know what humans do not.
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ToughDiamond
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Have to watch out for the ego here - I always sensed I was somehow superior to the rest of the herd 
But I guess the world does need thorough people like me, I'm glad to have the gift of due diligence.
It seems that when I try to learn something, others will fly past me, but then when I do finally get there, I understand it far better than they do.
I see details others miss and they've sometimes been glad of it.
I think the general quality of posting on WP is noticeably better than the average public board. More coherent, better clarity. |
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anna-banana
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I have a special ability to procrastinate. haven't met anyone who'd beat me in it so far.
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KingdomOfRats
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| Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 2:59 pm Post subject: |
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am have the same 'gift' with memory and art that Stephen Wiltshire has,only no way near as good as his due to severe imagination impairment.
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mysterious_misfit
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| Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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| I have X-ray vision. |
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