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17 Feb 2016, 2:02 pm

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somebody actually designed those things?

This is pretty much the same reaction I have whenever I look at them. Particularly the *really* weird ones. The ones in the pic were all cube-shaped, but they get really wonky when they have the stranger traits (like shapeshifting) but then also are not cube-shaped. Though the non-cubic ones do also tend to be bigger.

Just to show them, there's some more here: https://imgur.com/gallery/xJGxz

Includes some non-cubic ones. And I genuinely have no freaking clue what in the world that bottom one is. The thing's very existence baffles me.

It's a very fun hobby, really. The interesting part is that it really just isnt as hard as it looks. I started out by learning Phillip Marshal's "Ultimate Method", as he calls it. Instead of memorizing a million algorithms, his method focuses on simply UNDERSTANDING the cube, so that you learn how to apply logic to it instead of 97 memorized moves (which is the exact number of algorithms used by the most popular speed method). The stuff learned by solving that can then be applied to... everything else. It's so much more satisfying to REALLY solve these rather than just repeat things from memory. But yeah, the basic Rubik's Cube looks so impossible at first, but... it really is pretty easy. It's just intimidating.

Now as for the bit about meditation, I've tried things like that before, but... well, it's sorta like the traditional problem with autism in general, I've always found it basically impossible to slow down sensory input. Heck, when I'm sleeping, I always have my iPad blaring out a very loud static sound the whole time, to drown out all other possible noises so that I can sleep. Otherwise, I get insomnia.

I've just always found it so hard to focus... it's frustrating. It caused me no end of trouble back in school. And unfortunately aside from driving and gaming (and avoiding physical harm too, I guess), the whole "speed" thing doesnt have too much practical use, impressive though it may be.

With regards to not being able to slow down sensory input and finding it hard to focus (which I used to experience quite frequently), if meditation is not a viable option, have you considered something like hypnotherapy? I'm not sure if this would work for you, but it may be something worth looking into.

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17 Feb 2016, 2:09 pm

^^Thank you kindly!

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17 Feb 2016, 2:20 pm

I LIKE talking about the weather and sports LOL

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17 Feb 2016, 2:28 pm

I can meow like a cat (yes, like a REAL cat), belch on command, and I can cross one of my eyes (only my left) or both, but it hurts when I cross both of my eyes.

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17 Feb 2016, 2:28 pm

^I can do a good meowling cat impression, and many other animal sounds.

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17 Feb 2016, 4:07 pm

I'm pretty good with the cat sounds myself.

My Wolfie impression----that's more generic wolf, rather than being good enough to indicate an individual wolf personality.

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17 Feb 2016, 5:13 pm

I'm really good at mimicking animal sounds or doing accents. But those aren't really useful unless I'm going to do stand-up or be a voice actor.

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17 Feb 2016, 7:22 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:

I LIKE talking about the weather and sports LOL

Sports is my favorite thing to talk about... And the weather is one of the only things we all (within a small geographic area) experience at the same time.

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18 Feb 2016, 3:58 pm

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I'm really good at mimicking animal sounds or doing accents. But those aren't really useful unless I'm going to do stand-up or be a voice actor.

I think that mimicking animal noises, speaking in various accents, and even impersonating celebrities are all a part of how many of us try to relate to the world around us. I have done this myself from a very young age, and it has always served a dual purpose. Firstly, it was a natural side-effect of my having to observe the world more closely than others in order to fit in, and it allowed me to develop the skill of adapting to and learning from sensory data. And secondly, it provided an important distraction for the many occasions that I felt socially awkward, as a kind of comedic 'sleight of hand'. It was often far easier to become the clown in the room than it was to face real-world issues that would have otherwise revealed my many limitations.

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18 Feb 2016, 4:21 pm

^I first used animal and other sounds to communicate when I was small. Mew.

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18 Feb 2016, 10:42 pm

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I think that the vast majority of people have no particular talent. You can be totally "ordinary" , have absolutely no talent, work hard on little things that you like and find your way in the vast majority of unknown and untalented people like you, and be happy. That is pretty much what everybody does.

Unfortunately that's what most people seem to do in this world, and why particularly as an adult I don't fit in. It's very frustrating and discouraging to see mediocre people succeed when people with a genuine spark of genius don't.

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Also, I don't think that people will ever love or recognize YOU “for your talent” (because you have no merit as it came without working on it).

People will love you or recognize you for the “little things that you do”, day after day, for your little efforts.

Again, it unfortunately seems this is true for many people as well, and over time it breeds a deep, dark, explosive resentment. So many girls seem to judge guys by the "little things they do"--these are more romantic to them than having a beautiful imagination. As soon as a girl I'm around emits a "whiff" of this value system, she loses major attractiveness points in my eyes.

This is because, at the worst times of my life, my special talents, and the beauty they allow me to see in the world, is the only thing that keeps me going. When, due to stress, depression, illness, whatever I don't have the energy to actually MAKE anything out of my talents, when I don't even leave my room, my inner ability to imagine certain things doesn't disappear (even if it becomes slightly reduced). Therefore, unlike all those "little things", it's what will be with me always, and for me to truly love and be loved by someone, he/she BETTER see those as the "real me".

On the other hand, it's possible that I've been able to develop that value system because I've always had other people around me to "do the little things" to keep my life from going off the rails when I go deep into a world of imagining. In that sense, possibly these people who have contradictory value systems got that way for a reason that they couldn't "help" either. I definitely agree that people like myself do best with a "minder" in our lives to take care of the executive function/relating aspect of life.

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18 Feb 2016, 11:33 pm

I am excellent at written language, storytelling, and spelling. My verbal IQ is 134, and my reading ability is such that I can phonetically decode nonsense or extremely difficult words almost effortlessly.

I have a very strong memory for details, and can remember paired visual and auditory stimuli, such as dialogue from movies, with almost eidetic accuracy. I've been able to do that since I was a kid, and it drives my family crazy :lol:

I also have grapheme-colour synaesthesia, which helps me remember the details of names and dates easily, and which also helps with my heightened spelling ability.

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19 Feb 2016, 4:21 am

Computers - building, repairing, installing Operating Systems, UNIX server setup and maintenance, TCP/IP, programming in around 7 different languages, etc. All self taught. Never done a course. I can go years without using a language and I never forget how to do it.

I also see in pictures. Memories!

Hyperfocus.

That'll do for now!

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19 Feb 2016, 10:50 am

I wish I had a special ability--but I don't.

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19 Feb 2016, 5:13 pm

Does playing the harmonica with your nose count? The Ellen Show thought it did.

A legend in my own mime.

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19 Feb 2016, 5:18 pm

drlaugh wrote:

Does playing the harmonica with your nose count? The Ellen Show thought it did.

A legend in my own mime.

Not quite. NT's can do that as well!

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