Savantic Ablitys

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Maths.
I am very good at maths. I can work out powers in quite short times. Even 999999 squared. (But that is easy compared to 4096 cubed, which I have worked out).

English.
My english teacher's have loved my work, even when I spend virtually no time on it with oput bothering much. Yet despite that, I still get good marks.

Philosophy.
My RE teacher one time let me borrow the book 'The History of God' due to my interest in the subject, and I understood virtually each of the philosophies perfectly, ranging from Gnosticism to their bits about Kabbalah.

Me too!

My savantic ability would be my memory, specifically aural memory. Like Tallgirl, I'll hear a tune and be able to play it back. I remember when I was learning an instrument, as a test they'd play a tune and you'd have to clap back the rhythm. I didn't know you clapped so I just played the tune note for note on the instrument. I would have been about 8 at the time.

I am still not sure if I have any savant abilities since technically the definition of Savant is having an ability which excedes the expected level of the Intelligence Quotient. I think it's harder to tell if Aspies are savants simply because we often have normal to superior IQs (unless of course one is a human calculator or calendar calculator, or even extreme musical talent). With other gifts, such abilities would not necessarily fall into the unexpected range of abilities for an Aspie (I mean, there are many great non-Aspie artists and poets who are not considered savants for this talent). But nevertheless, I shall merely list my talents and say they are as yet unidentified-- perhaps indefinately-- as savants gifts.

1. poetry writing

2. art (2-D)

3. voice mimicry and accents

4. good visual memory (though by no means eidetic)

5. ability to see patterns in life/people

6. voice/face recognition (mostly confined to tv/movie personalities)

7. organizing information (a talent more because I REALLY enjoy organizing info)

8. good with animals

(The savants talents, if existing, would be more towards the top of my list.)

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I'm quite good at telling what time it is without looking at clocks. (I don't have a watch.)
I'm good at repairing things my dad can't do, if he lets me do...
My hearing is quite good. As a child I ate my lunch at a woman's we called Auntie (she was not my aunt but a nanny.) After the meal, we'd go in the living room to play (lego, mostly. ) And I would hear my dad's car coming. I'd say "Dad's coming!" and noone would believe me until he rang at the door. I can hear if the taps have not been properly turned off. The noise and the thought of us waisting water turn me mad. I'm always the one that turns taps off.

And I forgot: I'm also good at remembering dates. It amazes people most.

I'm going to be a spanner in the clockworks, and say I don't have any talents. Everything is quite average. Curiously, though, I have a knack for being able to accurately determine social cues/protocols/meanings. Its a receptive ability, not an expressive one. Its probably not up to NT ability, but possibly a talent for an autistic.

Savant no, but some talents I have:

Photographic visual memory (I rarely lose anything because I can remember where I last saw it; I only have to go somewhere once and I will remember the route visually and not get lost)

Perfect pitch

Synaesthesia (numbers that I know are primes I notice have a particular colour, I have never tested myself on it, but it may be possible that I could spot prime numbers without having to do any calculation. It's a nice idea but I really can't be bothered to find out)

On ocassion I've noticed with in myself a proximity sensor where as I can tell where someone is and how far away they are from me.

I have pretty good photographic and auditory memory can remember things that happened that happened 23 years ago just as well as something that happened yesterday, also at work I can usually identify a song being played long before anyone else does.

My hearing can be rather hypersensitive. In quite rooms, I can tell if a TV set is on becasue I can hear the squeal of the flyback circuit. At home there were numerous times when we had our old panasonic TV set where my mom would forget to turn it off when she would go to bed and I would get up at somepoint in the night to use the bathroom and when I steped out of my room I could tell right away that it was on.

On several ocassions, October 8, 1992, and March 27, 1994, just two dates I can remember. I was able to hear thunder from thunderstorms that were 50 miles away from my house.

My thought process is visual in nature and I can create some pretty complex things inside.

Scoots, you are amazing!

You are the first person I thought of when I read this thread, not for anything that you've posted directly, but because of things like your quote above. You have an amazing memory for dates. Is this "calendar memory"? I thought you also said something about telling your coworker what day he was born on.

My memory is quite good. Needs to be further improved. Make it more powerful! But I am good at remembering random information.

If you wish to call it that. I like to think of it more as photographic memory.

My counsler at UWO also commented on how powerful my memory was for events. I always had a memory for things, but it really didn't develop until I was in sixth grade. I find it odd that I can do this, and this is the only real place that I've ever felt comfortable sharing this talent.

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My memory works in a way in some respects opposite to Scott's. I was thinking about it recently, and came to the conclusion that I have good memory for places, but nearly none for events. In other words my memory is spatial, but not temporal. I can rarely answer the question "when" about past events, it's "where" that counts. For example, 20 years ago my family took a month-long trip through Europe. I can still describe from memory what we visited each day, and where we stayed for the nights. That's because each day we visited new places, and rarely stayed in the same town for more than 1 night. On the other hand, events of every-day life, consisting of the same places every day, gets "flattened" and timeless. In short, I remember my journey through space, but not through time. Quite strange.

I have a photographic memory. I have the entire 120 page underwriting manual for work memorized verbatim.

I am very good with directions- I seem to have an internal compass. I never get lost, and know exactly how to get just about anywhere (I love maps, and end up memorizing them.)

I have a very good sense of time, and can often get the time within 1-2 minutes, even if I haven't looked at a clock in hours and hours.

Interesting...

I memorize conversations. I can quote people verbatim. Usually they don't like it.

I can pick out inconsistencies instantly. If someone is lieing to me I can tell simply by all of the "hidden" contradictions.

I can draw a map in my head. I can tell you exactly where a country or state lies.

Usually my logic is infallible. Sometimes I act without common sense ( others say) but when asked why I give many reasons and the others are baffled and admit it makes sense after all.

Mark T. Pierce

I don't think I have any savant skills, but I am pretty good at a few things.

I can easily memorise systematic and sequential information, and design such schema. I think that comes with being logical and having high systemising ability. I am also good with maps (unsurprisingly) and never get lost, though I may get sidetracked if an alternative route looks more interesting. I have an excellent visual memory, which comes in useful for picking up written languages, working my way through computing by trial and error etc - unfortunately this means I can't always work out how I arrived at a solution verbally but know when I'm doing something right, lol. I am a good mimic, and had perfect pitch as a kid (I don't know about now - I fall between tenor and baritone so can't always reach the right key naturally). Other than being able to eat for England I can't think of anything else...

Dunc

music, languages, mimicry, problem-solving, intuition (including knowing things without having learned them), and... you're not going to believe this... reading people and understanding them. only intellectually, though - no empathy whatsoever. mainly, i'm just super fast in most things. and i have an outrageous memory for details, and a memory like an elephant.