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Cool is relative

not all of us are savaants, but a few of us have special things we're pretty dang good at.
My "thing" is music. I play almost every instrument. Piano is a personal favourite; along with brass section instruments. No reed instruments though, unless doublesided reeds, please. lol.

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~Aspiegirl89~

The word "cool" to me sounds like the old definition of the "cold fish," somebody who is indifferent. I don't understand how that word ever came to mean something positive. In classical usage, when someone is "cool" to you, it means they are indifferent or silently hostile. I don't really identify the word with anything good.

In much the same way, I don't necessarily believe all differences are good ones. There are a lot of things I like about AS (good memory, good vocabulary, good retention of factual material), but some I don't (anxiety, social awkwardness).

Well, cellogirl42 probably IS right. That is how I APPEAR to others at first glance. Still, if I said that was first noticable in me when I was like 3, and painfully obvious by like 5, how many would believe. Even with COMPUTERS, I first learned how they were made, and how they worked, and saw my first machine language program when I was about 8! Why so late? That was 1971, and NOBODY saw that even a year or so before then! And all the things I learned then I know today, and most really haven't changed. SURE, you have the coreDUO instead of the 8080, and memory banks are larger and you have various caches, but everything else really changed little.

Why do I mention all that? Because people don't just decide to be geeks before they even go to school.

As for special abilities, I think we ALL have the inate ability for many of them, and most of the better ones. Some just have an added spark, or situation, and learn how to trigger it. They include things like quick pattern recognition, photographic memory, quick math, fast processing of various sorts, hypo/hyper sensitivity, etc....

Steve

Being an Aspie is excellent. People see me as talented, and I find ways to make myself happy. I don't know what more I could ask for while still humbling myself.

i love my aspergers....wouldn't trade it for the world...

controled black outs like stoping to shrinks and let my brain do the talking in norway many aspies has this little trick scording to my shrink

Oh, I get it.

Forget thinking things over, just go ahead and say whatever comes out of your mouth.

I'm not sure that's necessarily a good thing.
I could imagine a young Aspie getting in trouble with that, as opposed to copious praise.

it's up to you if you're cool or not, wether you're an aspie or a musician or whatever. But the word 'aspie' does not have to be synonymous with the word 'uncool'.