Gifted outside of your special interests?

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It dawned on me that a few of the activities I am truly gifted in I don't like doing... at all. I'm very good at cooking, especially coming up with dishes on the fly with available ingredients. I also have a knack for fixing just about anything (I spend my days dreading my neighbors' knock at the door) that being said, I don't like doing either although I am very good at them. How about you? Talents that aren't interests?

Sounds like you own some very marketable skills. That is great.

I'm skilled at making hammocks. It pays the rent.

My special interest is business. I wouldn't say I'm gifted at math because that sounds arrogant, but I'm pretty good for teaching myself at 18. Math comes natural, especially conceptual, abstract math. If I wanted to I could get a phd, but I'm not that interested. Maybe if I was taught math when I was young I would. My dream is to be an entrepreneur. Math seems to be a mean to achieve this goal. I'm also very good at video games, especially first person shooters. I'm left handed and research has shown lefthanders are better at processing stimuli, which helps in fps. However, I don't enjoy playing them anymore.

I tend to see myself as gifted, in the sense that I seem able to achieve almost anything specific, once I set my mind to it, as long as I don't have to balance it with other priorities.

I may have wasted most of my life going for the wrong goals, but there wasn't much I set out to do, that I didn't do well. It works beautifully with most logical problems, and more recently even emotional problems are beginning to get sorted. I lock onto a problem like a heat-seeking missile, and I would have to be beaten off with a stick to stop me going that extra mile to get a result that's a cut above the average, a touch of class and near-perfection as an example to a slipshod world.

I don't know that it's exactly outside of my special interests though. I seem to MAKE a task my special interest if I can see that I can't get out of it. Once I realise that the task is about me, it's very hard to stop me.

I can definitely relate. For me, grammar rules, spelling, etc. are second nature to me. I always excelled at that and considered going into editing because of it. But I just do not enjoy it in the least. Science, on the other hand, is my passion and what I chose to pursue, even though it was much more difficult for me.

Gifted should be something like top 5-10% of the population in your given field. Calling yourself gifted is obnoxious if you aren't. But then again this is an online forum and everyone thinks they are gifted. Most likely, you're not gifted, you're just above average. I'd would guess that about 10% of people on this forum are actually gifted. Just because you can do three digit multiplication, know calculus, can do an above average finger painting, have asperger's, have a skill, are self-absorbed, are intelligent, and can spell, doesn't mean you're gifted.

I've considered myself a jack of all trades for some time now. I'm probably just about average academically according to Biz's criteria, I can fix most analog things, self-taught on several instruments as well as recording and engineering. I went from writing 10 lines of BASIC into the old Apple IIc to huge learning gap to where I just finished bolting on the last goodie to my Latitude c610. I tend not to get into the head side of my interests, I'll do anything that lets me work with my hands. I think if my neighbors were to describe me they might say I'm like 'Wilson from Home Improvement' Gifted? Maybe in the classic layman's definition, but as an aspie there are always areas I fall short

I am not gifted at anything. I just have a general talent in playing the piano, with ONE hand but can make timeless music using background rhythms and can memorize how I play each song (which lasts for about 2+ minutes like real songs, but I have to write down what rhythm and tones I use for each song). But it's not an obsession though, it's just a hobby I like to do, like how most NTs pursue their interests.