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09 Jan 2020, 11:12 am

I, although I have dyscalculia, can do calendar calculations with great accuracy. Can you say that every asperger has some savant ability?



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09 Jan 2020, 11:16 am

No.

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09 Jan 2020, 11:34 am

No savant ability for me .



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09 Jan 2020, 11:48 am

Me either. Though I do howl pretty well.....



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09 Jan 2020, 11:48 am

No. I have no talents.



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09 Jan 2020, 3:07 pm

No, I'm just an average joe (no pun intended).


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09 Jan 2020, 3:08 pm

Nope, I sure don't have any sort of special talent or ability.


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09 Jan 2020, 3:28 pm

Not a savant but there are some interests I'm really good at!


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09 Jan 2020, 3:39 pm

For 99.9% of questions beginning with "Does every autistic person ....", the answer is no.


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09 Jan 2020, 4:03 pm

IsabellaLinton wrote:
For 99.9% of questions beginning with "Does every autistic person ....", the answer is no.


This.

I do hate questions that include "all" or "every" and "autistic people" in the same sentence. I remember once there being a thread here asking "do all autistics like anime?" The answer is no, we don't all like anime.


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09 Jan 2020, 4:11 pm

Nope.


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09 Jan 2020, 4:32 pm

Short answer: no.
Long answer: though I have skills some say are impressive, I'm no savant. I have dyscalculia as well, which is most severe I'm afraid.



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09 Jan 2020, 6:00 pm

No.
The odds, while better than allistics overall, it's still not as common as most people thought.

The better odds, or the common occurrence would be the spiky, skewed, usually not well balanced yet for some -- specialized aptitude profile -- be it with learning disabilities or not, some may translate into some talent and mostly differ in each individual.
And the factors involving focus, the obsessions and/or special interests alone, doesn't always count for a talent except the trait of specialized focus itself.


As for myself; I'm good with few things or more if I actually bothered to, but nothing phenomenal.


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09 Jan 2020, 7:07 pm

No, that is a stereotype


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09 Jan 2020, 7:18 pm

I do, but I'm smart enough to hide it most of the time. I figured out the benefits of hiding it in grade school about the time reading was taught. Or I'll gaslight people as pass it off as "normal."



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09 Jan 2020, 7:22 pm

Very few have "savant abilities".

I am knowlegable about unusual things.

I am good at visualizing maps of the world, and tell you every country in Africa and tell you which European power colonized it, or which countries in Europe, Africa, and western Asia, were ruled by the ancient Roman Empire, and which not. Things like that. Things that folks think are amazing. So historical geography might be my "savant ability".