Any aspies here skilled with any instruments?

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ive put 'above average' for my vote.

i have a natural musical ear and was able to play tunes with chords(simple ones of course!) on a keyboard at age 3 without anybody to teach me how to play. my favorite tune was twinkle twinkle little star though i didnt know the words to it till i was 5 and my daddy taught me the words with the alteration 'like a tea-tray in the sky' lol.
i can play any wind or percussion instrument that i pick up though string instruments confuse me i get diddled with my fingers on the fret board!

ive played drums nearly 10 years... (note i remember the date i started playing - 27th june 1997-- oooh how aspie. lol)
ive just recently began teaching the drums and also teaching snare drum i teach drumset to a 7 yr old boy and i startin teaching snare to a lady who i go to samba band with and im teachin samba snare to 2 men during the practise time whilst samba leader works with every1 else.
i gt irritated tho when ppl dont do it sriously... the 2 men last night they started getting pans out of the kitchen and playing on them and playing the walls and stuff and i started to gt irritated i couldent help it but they did stop it and i taught them how to play the drum beat they needed to play in band.

I am highly skilled in lots of instruments (Voice, Violin, Percussion, Basic Piano and Whatever else I feel like). I'm also advanced in composition.

I can play some guitar, bass, piano, and harmonica, but I haven't mastered any one instrument. I have a very good understanding of musical theory but my sense of rhythm is a bit lacking, plus I'm slightly too clumsy to ever become a virtuoso.

I took guitar lessons for something like 8 years when I was a kid. At the time I was a decent player, but really never understood theory. I also learned to play bass, electric and upright acoustic. I gave up playing once I got out of college. I bought a fiddle last year but have yet to figure out how to play the thing. More complicated than guitar. I've been obsessed with drums as long as I could remember but parents thought it was immoral for a girl to play drums. I still get weak in the knees every time I see a drum set. I've thought about buying a snare kit at least but then would have to use a practice pad on it so to not have the neighbors complaining about noise. Oh I do have a Cherokee made hand drum which I play well. I wish I knew someone who played drums to talk about it. Or fiddle/violin because I need some pointers.

I have been playing the violin for 8 years.
I also sing in my high school chorus.

I've been able to play anything I've wanted to on any instrument I've tried to so far

I'd went above average because I don't try as hard as I could

I get stressed when asked to perform to a large audience, so I opted out of a musical career.
But I do have a freaky knack of picking up instruments very quickly; as in 'leave me alone with one and a tutor book for an afternoon and I'll at least reach junior orchestra standard'. I specialise in woodwind and adore the alto recorder. I have perfect pitch but I found out the hard way that other people in your music class get offended and mean when they find out you have it, especially if you've already decided not to go to music college and they know it. I stopped playing clarinet in the intermediate orchestra because I couldn't take the nasty remarks. (I picked up a clarinet for the first time at 3pm, joined the orchestra rehearsal at 5pm, and was promoted to first clarinet about half an hour later. Stupid.) I have a similar knack with foreign languages, which I attribute to the fact that music is also a language.

In connection to comments made in other posts...I do have a fairly advanced ability in maths and science and always have done. They feel the same way in my brain as properly composed/performed music does.

I'm learning guitar because what the hell beats watching tv and gets away from pharmacy I'm just having trouble with play one note/chord after another to make it a recogised tune.

I've played guitar since I was 11 (I'm 23 now). Don't get me wrong. I'm really good, but Im not "freekin awesome" as I should be. I have a fair knowledge of scales, modes, chords (including extended chords) and my feel for vibrato is pretty good I might add. But I don't practice as often as I should and I haven't had lessons in a while.

I'm currently trying to learn myself how to hold my fingers in order to avoid muting strings while barring and fingering chords. I can play two powercords now.