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Hey there!

I am one of those people that has likely had Asperger's for their entire life and have been completely ignorant to it. Ironically, I had to be diagnosed with Savant Syndrome by Darold Treffert of all people (after a car accident) before anyone would consider an Autism/Asperger's diagnosis for me.



One thing that is REALLY hard for me to do for some reason is to talk about this condition and Asperger's alike, so here I am, forcing myself

Hi!

-Mitchel

Hi, Mitchel!!

I hope, eventually, WP becomes a place that you don't have to force yourself to come to!! I hope you find everything you need / are looking for, and that you learn to be comfortable with yourself, as well!!

Welcome!!

It's just hard to come out and say sometimes. I feel like people are going to challenge it and demand a pony show or something, it's actually happened before. Some people just freak out over the Savant diagnosis and forget their manners on occasion. It's something that I've had to accept.

Thanks for the nice response!

Welcome to WP! If you don't mind my asking, what sorts of savant skills do you have?

Hey Mitchel welcome.

I guess if you have to get "acquired" anything, then savant skills are probably one of the better choices. Good luck!

Happily! Open books are the BEST books!

I refer to them as Abilities as I operate on the assumption that there is equivalence between Ability and Disability.They haven't been fully evaluated, so I can only be honest and I know that I can't convince everyone.

Abilities:
Social
Spatial
Cognitive/Intellectual/Lucidity
Synesthesia
Physical
Scale, the scale I think on is massive.

Honestly, my life makes a damn good argument for the existence of the infamous 'Luck of the Irish'. I can admit that.

Interesting! What do the social abilities involve?

It's hard to articulate, but very hard to deny.

For some reason, I am just more receptive about physical correlates of consciousness and these help me gauge intent/insecurity/ability/perception/ego/mood/background when physical actions deviate from words.

This particular ability has actually helped me the most while creating the most mayhem at work. Currently my HR department is refusing to meet with me in person.

That's very interesting. So you are somewhat of a mind reader?

Think of actions as being a better representation of a conscious state. If you've ever had a friend whose sentences you can complete, it's not like you're reading their mind, you can just infer more about them. It's *kind* of like that, just on a much more grand scale.

Make sense?

That sounds cool, I would like to have that skill. Do you also have social issues?

I've always been a love him/hate him guy. I'm still that person. It's really just hard for my friends/family to understand that I can think/do things that I couldn't before, while still being 'me'. I've made a lot of physical/philosophical changes as well.

I could get mad at my friends/family/coworkers for calling me Bipolar. It's taken me 3+ months to walk my Psychologist back from Bipolar disorder, how can I get mad at concerned friends asking me to seek help? I've had to learn to be patient, how to forgive and how to reason with people. They all care, they just don't understand it all the way.