Do you have a "savant" gift or gifts?

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this is one I would dearly love, I have tried many times to learn languages other than the one I was taught in childhood (English obviously) and failed miserably

Above average skills in:

- Math

- Music

- Programming

- Long term memory


Below average skills in:

- Social skills

- Short term memory

I have a "hyper-focus" for discerning order i.e., "seeing that something is not ordered".

For example:

A professor would write a multi-dimensional matrix on the chalkboard, and describe it with say a set of polynomic equations and my brain would strongly desire to see if the matrix would violate the set of equations or not. I noticed that other students seemed content to observe, and not immediately feel challenged about possible "inorder" in the presented information.

I would think many of the math/logic/order AS people are like me in this regard ?

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most true savants have moderate or severe developmental disabilities,and in terms of autism its usualy people with classic autism that are savants,theres the the odd one [no pun intended] like daniel tammet who is an aspie.
its a stupid myth created by rainman that all people with high functioning autism are savants, it also probably doesnt help that aspergers is associated with high iq all the time and the general public assume high iq is what makes savantism.

am not a savant,but dont care,have got a load of qualities and strengths that other people will never have, qualities are more important than a super strength which almost always comes with severe disability,kim peek is a good example of this,he coudnt do any basic personal care for himself.

I study patterns in interpersonal dynamics, behavior, psychology. I have an "inner experience" that is disorganized in many ways that function as a disability (don't remember where I put something, can't think of what I was about to do, etc.), but I have, or perhaps have developed, an inner realm that is much more highly organized, clean, and explainable than anything that anyone I've ever met seems to experience.
I understand my emotions as information which I interpret as a system of guidance. My emotions do not rule me, and neither do I "stuff" them.
I know the omnipresence of "yes/wow/god" and keep perspective, rather than becoming lost in identification with my ideas. (This is part and parcel with "namaste"...the thing that everyone is going to yoga classes and meditation retreats in order to taste)
I am honest to the bone, and a voracious truth seeker...always looking for another secret inner tangle or nook of internal discrepancy (in myself and/or in others) to begin unraveling.
I do not have agendas, and I see possibilities spanning in every direction.
I live basically free of the fundamental agony [that everyone else appears to experience] of having to always judge what is "right/wrong", "good/bad", "better/worse"--assessing it's [imagined] essential value.
I am easily and gracefully polyamorous (I have a blog that was being written as a manual for polyamory for young people (teens and young adults)...but after discovering I'm an aspie...I have to wonder if it might not be a manual for polyamory for aspies, instead.

I can sew really, really well. People are always amazed when they find out I made something that they love that the kids or I or the dog is wearing or using.

I really wish that posts at this forum had some kind of "thumbs up" or "like" feature. I am interested to read about your gifts!

I wouldn't use the term "savant" but I went to Toronto for the first time 12 years ago. When I went back last year, I was able to find an address in Koreatown (in other words, off the beaten path) without even using a map or GPS and was able to walk there from downtown with no issues. I am an expert at understand city layouts and could even give directions in a city I have never visited. Too bad I can't use this skill for anything useful

Non that I am aware of.

I was just joking.

For me it is Empathy.

The thing that we as persons on the Autistic Spectrum are not meant to have.

I do not "live in a bubble". I reach out to people in need & offer them all the help that I can give them.

Well, no. Nothing cool.

By the way -- I learned an algorithm for calculating what day of the week corresponds to any date like Fenruary 20, 1969 is a Thursday. But I have to calculate it. But I "pretend" to be a savant at it just to freak my friends out. I'm such a faker lol.

Well, I'm really good at drawing, and I notice things others don't, but that's about it.

In processing certain information very quickly, can't control it.

i make the best pizza i have ever eaten.

I've seriously questioned if I have savant syndrome as my little and brother and I were always known for our memories and yet no-one else in our family displayed any memory ability.

I managed to memorise the name/time period/food of every single dinosaur to have been discovered by age 6. At age 20 I memorised the entire periodic table of elements in under and hour. There are plenty of examples but I'll stop there.

I know I'm not a prodigal savant like Kim Peek or anything but I get the impression based upon the description "Islands of genius: Deep but very narrow range of knowledge" I would say that describes me a tee.