List your savant skills

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I wouldn't fit those since my memory is pretty bad.
I always wondered does AS usually give an above or below average memory.
I've heard storys about it both being really good or really bad.
For me if compared to other family members it's not nearly as good.
Bad luck i guess.

From anedotes, I've heard it go either way. Actually, I've heard more people say either "I've got an excellent memory" or "I've got a horrible memory". I can't recall anyone saying "I've got an average memory". (But maybe "average" just wasn't noteworthy.)

I think it probably hits the full range from Crappy to Photographic. Although I have heard more people say "My longterm memory is good but my shortterm sucks."

> I'm good with computers and my speciality is basic animation (Microsoft Powerpoint. I really would like to master Flash though.)

> I'm creative with stories, and poetry.

> I have a rich imagination (when I wanna use it, I'll use it)

> Although ''Socially blind'' I can determine someone's body language.

> I'm learning to play the drums and am catching on very well.

I think these count as skills.

Me too sounds like something a parnoid schizophrenic would think. Anyway you can
implant a small powerfull rare earth magnet in an area of you body with alot of nerves
and detect electromagnetic fields, but you not going to detect any from a person.
Hell I would love to see a machine that could do that,that does not physical connect a wire to a body.

I have a fabulous memory for utterly useless information!

i seem to annoy people too and i wish i knew how NOT to.

What are savant skills?

Tim

when I was younger I could read at rediculous speeds, and have profound comprehension

I can intuitively "feel" answers for physics problems/concepts regardless of what they concern

I am able to start from anywhere within most academic material and be able to understand it in a short period

I relate things that are seemingly unrelateable, this is the source of most of my humor

I can troubleshoot anything in really short periods of time

I can skateboard drunk better than when Im sober

Im good at impressions and imitating sounds ( can beatbox really well....)

Hyperlexia, I can say large, technical words very easily and I have a HUGE vocabulary.

Here's a good website for background info.

Savant Syndrome: Islands of Genius

Occasionally I can recall things in a photographic like way, similar to when I first experienced it.

When I'm diagnosing a motorcycle, I can visualize the motorcycle operating under normal conditions and can quickly understand what the problem likely is. I don't go through a troubleshooting chart in my head, I actually see the fuel going from the tank to the transfer ports, mixing with the air, going into the cylinder, igniting, and so on. When I insert a problem into the equation, like water in the tank, I see the problem occuring throughout the process. Then I see if the problem that occurs in my visualization matches the problem as I've witnessed it.

I'm also quite good at training dogs, but that has taken a lot of work. Not something I would consider intuitive. I'm good at horses, too, in relation to my experience with them.

Building action-at-a-distance machines.

I've always been really good at art, and quite good at remembering information I'm interested in...

I have perfect pitch

im a savant in the sense that im 1337 in every single game ive ever played (not jokin, im in ESL clans top 20 kinda things)

on a serious note, in terms of actual savant things, none. im a quick reader, extremly good memory for random stuff and can remember long number sequences, but not with any savant type ability, i always have to make effort to remember, but once i do im not likely to forget it. but i have nothing which cud be considered 'savant'

Believe what you will. Its basically a strongly honed empathic ability.
I used have a friend(possible aspie) who could do it to, he onced tried guess the color of my aura, he couldnt, I kept changing it. He could have simply made up any color but was instead speechless.