"Einstein Syndrome," Do You Fit It?

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I fit quite a lot of them, but then a lot are standard autistic traits.

Yes:
Close relatives in analytical occupation (engineer, scientist, mathematician)
Close relatives who are musicians, sometimes professionally
High IQ
High analytical and/or musical abilities
Extremely good memory (to photographic)
Unusual concentration and absorption in what they are doing
Highly selective interests with achievement in some areas and ineptness in others
Precocious ability to read and/or use numbers and/or use computers
27 % of boys dislike meeting new people
Fascinated with mechanical things
Like building things
Like putting puzzles together
Strong-willed

No:
Close Relatives Who talked late
Parents have high education level (59% four years of college)
Majority are boys
Late in socializing with their peers (didn't have much choice, I've regressed in this respect nowadays)
Delayed Speech Development (Two years and up for full sentences)
Late in being toilet trained


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Social skills have never been an interest or achievement of mine, but art and poetry are. While I have capacity for both Arts and Sciences, the latter is usually much harder for me to [want to] focus on, I don't know why. I think it might be a learned aversion rather than an innate one (I link maths/science to my dad, therefore it stresses me out), because I actually really like numbers and patterns when I get to working on them.

Delayed speech development seems crucial in the "Einstein Syndrome". The absence of significant social difficulties at adult age is also important. The first one differs from Asperger's in that Asperger Syndrome frequently equals early speech development ; the second one differs from all forms of autism.

^^ Hmm well I didn't have delayed speech development. I didn't talk much and I never cried, even as a baby, but I could talk, I just didn't unless engaged. I definitely have persisting social difficulties though, no doubt about that .

So 'Einstein Syndrome' is a classification of autism in the same way Asperger's is/was? Interesting, though I had thought the medical community was trying to get away from the Asperger's/autism divide and unify them as variants of the same condition.

I didn't talk late, but I did come from an ESL background. (My first language was German, and I had no speech delay in my first language.)

I could think of a lot of famous people, including some tennis players, who have some of the familial and individual traits associate with this syndrome.

Professional musicians in their background: Denis Istomin (Uncle Mikhail Istomin is a professional cellist) and Rafael Nadal (Grandfather Rafa is a symphony conductor)

High IQ-Janko Tipsarevic

French tennis player Marion Bartoli has a father who is a doctor, has a tested IQ of 175, is an artist and a cat lover.

I did talk late and had a developmental delay but I never had any of the gifts and I wasn't gifted. But I did have a talent for writing if that counts. And my IQ is average. I am rather dull because I don't have any special gifts that could lead me in life for a career. I did like putting puzzles together and now I mostly spend my time on the computer and playing my 3DS for hobbies. I do have relatives who talked late but I don't think they have Einstein syndrome. I was late in socializing and I was out of diapers at 39 months.

I don't think my brother would fit it either even though his IQ is high and he is gifted but he doesn't have any special talents nor did he talk late, in fact he talked early.

Hello, I actually do fit all of these criteria so I just created this account to post this. When I was a child I spent a lot of time stuck inside of myself thinking about things and trying to understand them even though I was silent. I feel like everybody around me thought I wasn't as "there" as I actually was. It's almost as though I have no automatic behavioral programming and had to manually make myself do things like eye contact but I'm sure everyone on this forum can relate to this.

I have very little social skills or ability to get people to like me, but I can program well and I'm almost on the level of being a musical virtuosio after teaching myself. I feel like the teaching mechanisms of the brain are actually something you can learn to improve, like, when I am practicing playing music I don't don't do scales or excersizes a lot but I'll conciously try to imbue a new thing into my playing, such as volume control, pitch control, smother rhythm styles etc. What you are doing is 'offloading' aspects of playing into your automatic responses, which frees up your executive functioning to imbue new aspects, these new aspects are through repetition offloaded into automatic functioning. You can imbue a new aspect a day by playing for more than half of the day (to the point that when you go to bed you can feel a virtual guitar/whatever strumming/sounding inside your head).

This is getting a little off topic, but there is a 'musical fabric' one must form in their head and allow themselves and their entire body to flow with in order to play music on a high level (the grace you see in a violinist's movements is exactly correlated to the movement of their mental fabric). There are real structures that arise out of good music playing, sound driven shapes. Most people can't see this aspect but if they hear it they'll know that it's beautiful automatically.

Neuraltypicals are automatically able to follow this fabric without themselves being cogniciant of it. Listen to them speak and you'll see the flow and smoothness of their words and how they flow musically, and how when someone replies to another they come in on a semiharmonic pitch and with the same rhythm. They really care more about you entertaining them by 'singing' with them than any sort of information transfer and the topic of discussion is, while still important, not the number one priority to them, it's move about delivery. That's why autistic people are often ignored or shoved out of groups because they can't automatically flow with the conversational fabric.

Anyway, I used to want to be normal, to try to act normal, but on an LSD trip I realized that that was never what god, chance, the universe, etc etc whatever had me born for. I can see the the condesending nature of some people my roommates bring over or I meet, but now that I've taught myself these things I can either make them start to respect me or become flustered or jelous instead of just looking down on me, which is better but still sh***y. I also think neurotypicals are offended somehow if you don't dress like them or groom your hair but it doesn't really matter they don't know who you are

I may of talked alittle latter than average but I am NOT very intelligent & I don't have any of the stereotyped Aspie skills & strengths

I have all of the secondary list. but not all of the first however their may a reason for that.

What i find interesting is that without people who are like Einstein
the human race may not have developed so quickly as instead of staying in and developing mind blowing and in some cases innovative (or genius) intellectual and creative works

they would spent most their time socializing, trying to maximize their potential for procreation and mindless hedonism (not that i am completely against either of these enjoyable pass times).

but arguably the human race would not have developed so quick.
So, autism may be something very positive.