My uncle went to MIT, as an EE, he still consults with IBM, and helped invent some things you see everyday. His father, my grandfather is romoured to have fluently spoken chinese and japanese, which as a caucasian during WW2 in the highest ranks of the state department allowed him to spy on foreign meetings while appearing lost and sitting in the back seats. My mother has spacial reasoning skills in architecture and her piano playing by sight for over 60 years is impressive. I work in structural bridge engineering and right out of college I worked as a seismic engineer-in-training designing curved steel bridges. I thought that was normal for other engineers. What's normal for an aspie isn't normal for others. In high school I took Japanese cause I wanted a challenge. I spoke Japanese to my Japanese roomate and he spoke english to me. I also am the up and coming IT guru for my office and I now do special work which I've made several advances in over our older system, and I excel at this process now. I basically invent software techniques and beta test software and now I see this isn't so normal. I have an archival memory for technical/software stuff at work I saw 5 years prior. I enjoy days on end of silence. No one talks to me at work for more than a few hours a week (tops), which I like. My favorite days and weeks are where I nod at coworkers and that's all the communication for the whole week. Luckly I can type and convey ideas through typing, All that's necessary for my job. Eye contact has always been a problem. My work evaluations always stated so. I've invented several things, one running in my house now is a nearly perfect wood stove I made for about $400 through Amazon, and the local brick supplier. Simply put I can see the flow of things such as, (fluids [air,electricity,water,combustion], mass-forces, etc. I took five years off of Math after high school and walked into college engineering and did fine with A's and B's to graduation. I like sitting in my mind. Leasurely. for hours, at work or home. The most relaxing weekends for me involve no interaction with people. Silence is so important to me. I've built my own computers and played with them since I could drive a car. I'm currently working with a mental health doctor from S.California who has jumped on the idea that I have aspergers. I'm working to get him to put it in writing, which will help with several difficulties I've had at work and with one legal matter also. A computer I built about a year ago is more powerful than the new "Xbox One" and PS4, coming out soon, and it cost me about $800. I have my P.E. License and I've passed all tests I've ever taken, the first time. I've also known I don't want others to have an IQ value for me, so I managed to get my PE license without taking the SAT or ACT, or any IQ tests, if you figure out how I did that, I'll be happy to concure in a response, it was a normal path for me, and as I'm learning, normal for me isn't normal for everyone else. Does anyone else have a family history, or personal history, of enhanced abilities? spacial reasoning? musical abilities? multiple languages? Engineering? Math? Inventions? Thanks for reading. Please share. It's forums like this where I finally feel comfortable enough to share my abilities. Elsewhere I have trouble being awknowledged as not being "Normal," i prefer to blend in the crowd, to feel I belong...
17 Oct 2013, 12:11 pm
