List Your Skills/Talents

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I know this might seem like a strange topic for this section. However, I think it fits since it may serve as a boost for general self esteem. So, without further eloquence, here is a list of my skill sets

1. Dog Training
2. Lock Picking
3. Knife Throwing
4. Carpentry
5. Metal Working
6. Fix and Visualize Mechanical Stuff
7. Violin
8. Knot Tying
9. Animal Tracking
10. Archery
11. Keen Eye for Detail.
12. Random Fact Machine
13. Speed Read
14. Fluent in German and English

3D modelling and music compositions, without any musical education and without the ability to read sheet music and without using a piano.

1. Endless patience.
2. Brave and protective.
3. Promising chef.
4. Great with Maths/Physics/Chemistry.
5. Ability to talk through problems for people and come up with a realistic answer.
6. Annoyingly good at video games.
7. Very focused.
8. Very well read.
9. Excellent vocabulary/writing skills.
10. Ability to embrace and learn new subjects thoroughly and accurately.
11. Excellent artist.
12. Cracking memory.

I can't think of any more things he's got good skills in at the moment (well there's one but I shan't type it), but that's the 'off the top of my head list' of things my fantastic Aspie husband has the luck to be good at.

Wish he'd believe it himself!

That list could definately be added to as well, but what's funny is, he would never write such a list. So, bugger it, I'll do it for him!

Excellent thread idea. Let's hope plenty of people will participate.

- diligent worker
- eye for detail
- fluent in Dutch and English, decent grasp of German and French
- retains facts and data easily
- basic bookbinding skills
- considerable experience with cleaning
- drawing skills
- decent knowledge of general zoology

-Writer of short stories
-Poet
-Screenwriter
-Novelist
-Blog maintainer
-Working knowledge of Cubase
-Knows MS Word
-Recording engineer
-Plays guitar
-Plays bass
-Plays keyboards
-Was a taxi driver
-Nurse, LPN
-Plays video games, mainly FPS
-Converts music from one form to another
-Knows Sound Forge Pro

1. Nothing.

Well, nothing is the best incentive to build upon.

I'm fairly creative at restoring old audio.

Well for starters you have skills in punctuation. That's a dying talent these days it seems! You're cute too.

1. Good/great mom
2. Photography
3. Drawing
4. Avid reader
5. Runner (9 half marathons at last count)
6. Off the wall sense of humor
7. Loyal and committed in my relationship
8. Innovative cook

I can bend aluminum wire to make it into objects made of aluminum wire.
I can fold papers to make small boxes and sticks.
I know just enough about everything to seem smart to an expert in conversation while being unintelligible to any non-expert nearby.
I'm good at using Game Maker instead of a real programming language to make cool useless programs.
I have the ability to not only imitate your personality, but to duplicate it within my own mind.
I can almost seem like I don't have autism.
I can take multiple seemingly unrelated concepts and force them together to create something useful.
I can transform theoretical and philosophical reasoning into practical applications, and back again.
I'm good at starting a lot of cool projects and leaving them for someone else to finish.
I have a vast working memory capacity that I don't have conscious control over.
I'm good at predicting what new technologies are possible a few years before they are on the market.
I can analyze data in exponentially increasing levels of complexity and speed for up to 3 hours before total cognitive burnout. I have successfully understood the meaning of the universe a few times.
I can simplify complex concepts into simpler concepts, and back again.
I completely forget stressful and painful events, including everything else that happens during them.
I can make a big pot of hot chili from scratch.
I forget names and faces easily, making my secret sources virtually anonymous.
I am good at mentoring 60 year old people with autism (a.k.a. my dad) to help them seem more friendly to "NT's."
I never give up, I just wait.
I can identify some of the neural circuits and brain regions that are sufficiently different from "normal" simply by having several in-depth conversations with you. In fact, I compulsively do this with everyone I talk to, eventually creating lengthy mental reports of brain function and projections of future brain health.
I'm good at remembering random things photographically, maybe everything I've ever seen.
I'm good at forgetting any functional skill that I can't immediately put into regular practice.
I'm good at working with information that isn't stored inside my own mind, maybe it's in your mind right now.
I receive a temporary functional skill boost at anything that someone near me has natural talent with.
I'm good at seeing inside a person's mind and duplicating unique thought patterns that they possess.
I'm good at intuitively knowing when a person's seemingly reasonable explanation of something is probably wrong.
I'm good at systematically breaking down a person's understanding of reality and determining which beliefs cause them the most trouble, then using their own belief system to disprove their problematic beliefs.

All right. I can work with that. I'll add it to the list.

1. Nothing
2. Punctuation
3. Cuteness


Thanks for the compliment by the way.

Oh ffs you have many great skills, but self deprecation is not a skill you should cultivate!


Here's mine:

I can herd cats. True story.

My skills/talents:

Drawing
Bowling
Piano playing
Guitar playing
Fishing
Keen eye for detail
Good with/knows a lot about animals
Good computer skills
Good math skills
Good singing voice
Good at video games
Good grammar skills
Vast knowledge of various classic rock bands