Special Interest Only Thing you are truly great at?

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Does anyone ever feel that their special interest is the only thing they are truly great at. That without their special interest they might feel that they are just average? We know more about our special interest than most people. We are more dedicated than most people. We try our hardest when it comes to our special interest. It just seems that in life without a special interest we would not feel or be special.

Without my specail interst I would be lost

I wouldn't feel special without my special interest, and I think GOd I've been created with an autistic mind. I wouldn't be as creative in my writing if I if I was NT (or it wouldn't be as unique as it.) I would die without writing, anime, and the Mega Man games (all of them execpt Satrforce. Somehow that version's just ret*d and is the same thing as ZX) having been in my life. That's where I get most of my inspirations from.

So to answer your question, I would feel like an average joe or worse without Mega Man, writing, and anime.

Sigh. Well, I'm afraid I'm not even "great" at my special interests. The only special interests I've ever had that actually involve doing something (as opposed to merely observing something, like a particular band), and thinking about it), have been knitting and making Lego movies. I'm reasonably good at both, all things considered, but I'm hardly "great" at either of them. In fact, I'm very slow and make many mistakes. However, with special interests, I don't mind undoing my mistakes to make the thing better.

I'm almost 42, and still haven't found anything I'm even particularly good at, let alone "great."

My special interests are music, photography and creative writing.
Without my love of music I wouldn't have the friends that I have today. We're all into the same 'scene' and meet up at gigs, but I spend a lot of time talking to them online and getting music news from them. Without my photography I'd still be trying to get a job in IT. I've met so many people and got into so many different types of music through it. My life was so boring before it. It's the only skill that could get me a good job. I spend 80% of the day thinking about my creative writing (or stories in my head) and I don't even know what I'd do without that skill. My life would be so dull that I'd probably prefer to be social. Thank god that isn't the case.

Not me. I don't really have a true special interest at the time. Only a mild obsession with Neon Genesis Evangelion. I sort of stare at the show as though under hypnosis, and a first attempt at fan fiction has stranded.

My old interests, I now suck at. I'm not good at drawing, and my knowledge of biology is slim. My knowledge of paleontology is superficial and outdated. I'm glad I'm not bad at my job, so that I can at least earn money to feed myself with, but no. I don't shine. And don't that make my brown eyes blue? I just completely lack any drive.

I'm not sure whether I'm great in but I like to do creative stuff on the pc, I'm mainly focusing on things as making 3D models and doing stuff at photoshop. Next to that I play allot of keyboard and record a composition from time to time.

I used to be a big fan of Star Wars, I did everything star wars themed, I listened only to SW music and every creative thing I made had to do with SW in some way. Near high school I learned to tone down my obsession since I began to notice that not everyone appreciated it.

If you feel you are not the best at it do you feel your are more dedicated at it than others or you know more about it than others. Those kind of things can also entail greatness.

Mine switch constantly, but yes--I quickly become an expert when my brain latches onto something.

I have to be at least slightly obsessed to learn properly. That's left me in trouble as far as less-favorite school subjects, but apparently several years ahead of everyone else in the area of specialist subjects.

You know you're an Aspie with an astronomy special interest if you keep asking questions the prof can't answer because, "They're still trying to find an answer to that one..." and "Well, actually, you'd need tensors..."

You know you're an Aspie with a special interest in neurology when your prof answers your questions with, "I'd like to go into that, but it's complicated; maybe you'll get to it in your graduate classes," and suggests you study neuroscience.

You know you're an Aspie with a school-related special interest when you realize you're going to have to limit yourself to one question per lecture, no matter how curious you are.

You know you're an Aspie with a special insterest in a computer game when you deliberately create scenarios to test the game's internal variables, run them hundreds of times, and make tables of the results.

You know you're an Aspie with a special interest in RPGs when you learn statistics so you can calculate the probability of dice rolls... with multiple numbers of sides, multiple numbers of dice, multiple people rolling against each other, with multiple modifiers....

Outside those areas, I'm blah-average. When I'm interested in something, though... Watch out! Unfortunately I can't trigger my special interest to switch to any given topic. If I could do that... wow, I'd never fail a class again!

Same here.
My ultimate special interest I've had since I was a toddler is animals. I don't know everything about every kind of animal but based on my own experiences, I know a lot about their behavior. Animals and I have a bond that's very strong and I think that the only job I'll ever be good at is one working with animals. However I'm not "great" at dealing with animals. People working in pet stores are sometimes know more than I do, but this is the only thing that I'm even slightly good at.

I'm the opposite!

I'm fairly good at a lot of academic areas (I'm an A's student), but not great at my special interests.

And I don't think being a speed reader and reading massive amounts of books really counts as a "skill"...

I would say speed reading could be considered a skill. If we can find uses for speed reading out loud then speed reading should be seen as a talent.

Certainly my chosen special interests are my main strengths. Mainly it's music, particularly singing and making recordings, also any kind of sound/video technology.

I don't consider myself "truly great" at them - my areas of expertise tend to be very limited, so for example I know a lot about my own methods of recording engineering but would be quickly identified as useless in a commercial studio because my skills would be too narrow. I've more sussed out the techniques that work for me, and I've done that very thoroughly, often using obselete equipment and unconventional approaches to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

I've had lots of compliments about my singing, though my perfectionism always reminds me of the shortfalls - if I could just accept that I'm a baritone then I'd probably be content and proud of my work, but I always envy tenors because they can get higher notes than I can, and basses because they can get lower notes. I think nothing of doing fifty retakes of a vocal part, chasing some holy grail that nobody else would even notice I hadn't got.

I like science as well, and have a science job, but it bores me unless I can see how I might apply it to solve my own problems. I know it brings the money in, but somehow that's too far removed from the really serious business of working on my music - even if it allows me to buy good equipment, in a way I'd be happier working with cheap gear. So when doing my science job, the feedback suggests I'm very good at a lot of the things I do, and I usually apply my perfectionism to the task in hand, but I've never really fallen in love with it, because for me there are higher things to do, so my range of workplace skills is limited and I'm too apathetic to want to add any more new ones than I need to just hold onto the job.

I've often thought that if I didn't have my special interest, I'd kill myself and get it over with. Nowadays I think that maybe I could find another special interest if it was truly necessary. I'd miss this one (computer programming), but it wouldn't take away my will to live.

Because I spend so insanely much time on my special interest, I've become very good at it. This was different when I just got started programming. It took me many years and some "encouragement"; someone I very much respected for his programming skills and general awesome smartness told me "you'll never be a real programmer". That's just the thing to tell an autie, if you want to make him dig his heels in and prove you wrong....

With one of my interests Wrll I want to be able to Wrll anything. Also I want to be able to Wrll anywhere on anything even with my eyes being so weird right now. Also yes I dont feel my two special interests are the only things I am truly good at. But I do want to be able to write amazingly well so that can be what I make a living at.