List your aspie "super powers."

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The ability to focus and zoom in on details and objects in the physical environment.

This is great for:

Finding and identifying rocks
Making scientific observations
Making poetic observations
Making observations for artistic drawing
Checking equipment safety/calibration


It's terrible and useless for socialising though.
I focus on people's watches, earings, clothing, patterns in the carpet/ceiling and the furniture when I should be looking at people's faces. I really do try.

I try to focus on people's faces, but an explainable fear of people and a fascination with objects seems to pull me away. I'm cursed as well as "blessed" .

I am able to become invisible, going to parties is a good way for me
to disappear behind a plant or coat rack, and if I get some alcohol I
may pretend I am a lamp.

I can read a book, exercise, and listen to music at the same time.

I'm good at finding things, especially my mum's keys that she loses every morning.

I can scientifically identify and classify most plants within any given landscape.
I might as well have a botanical encyclopedia in my head.
I have near-perfect pitch, and a tremendous capacity for frequency and rhythm.
And without the slightest trace of egotism, I also think of myself as an exceptionally-gifted writer.

excellent capacity for mimicry - vocal and bodily.
art - drawing and painting.
original thinking
zoning in on areas of special interest.
making the most amazing pictures in m ybrain - like an internal movie screen
incredible sense of smell

I can...
Get lost on the way to the park (Even though it's directly down the street!)
Play a Pokemon game for hours even after I beat the plotline, and even while my fingers are screaming "take a break!"
Re-read a good book about a bijillion times
Read a book all day only taking breaks to eat a meal or two, and use the bathroom
^Or sometimes without the break(s).
Stare at my fan for hours
Stare into "nothing" for hours

Did anyone take this topic seriously? lol I guess my so called powers would be:

INVISIBILITY, MAKING PEOPLE UNCOMFORTABLE, AND BEING REALLY GOOD AT SOMETHING I SPEND HOURS ON!

I can't take it seriously, or my answer would had been "none", and that would be boring.

yes. i took it literally.

I can handle details and minutia extremely well. Also I was a super software test and debugger when I was in the software business. I was born object oriented.

In spite of this, I can also "think outside the box"

ruveyn

I am terrific at adding long strings of numbers in my head. Very bad at all other math.

I can remember phone numbers and social security numbers. I can speed read and can concentrate to the point where the rest of the world disappears. I like that last one the best!