What are your Aspie/Autistic skills or talents?

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Thanks for posting your artwork. I love all kinds of artwork and always enjoy looking at it.

I'm sure the OP didn't mean that all NTs are ret*d, and I certainly didn't mean to imply that in my post either. My sister is NT and she has some amazing talents - especially baking, as well as language acquisition and general intelligence. My talents and her talents compliment each other nicely - she loves baking and I like cake and I love knitting and she likes knitwear so it all works out very well

The only reason I think my 'talents' (such as they are) are linked to AS is because good rote memory is sometimes considered an AS trait. I think the real AS aspect of it is that I can't recognise when people do not want to hear all the interesting little facts I can remember! I have now learned that it is inapropriate to tell people Al Qaeda casualty figures just before they are getting on a plane

Glad you liked it. I can post more, if you want.

Would love to see more of your art. Thanks.

I forgot to mention that I can also sing pretty well.

Wow, what lovely art, Kinme . Have you thought about selling it for children's books?

Thank you. This is the second time someone's told me this, haha. Not really. I'm on and off with this kind of thing. I don't know how I could dedicate my time to something I can only focus on for a short period of time.

I used to draw maps a lot - all of imaginary places. They looked pretty good, but they took a lot of time for me to do. They were very detailed. I was very interested in real maps, too - I memorized all the countries of the world by location, and shape, as well as most major rivers and land features and such.

That was more when I was in high school, though. Now (as I did then, still) I make a lot of music. Most of my originals (the ones not associated with any band) are solo bass, usually involving lots of harmonics. I don't mean to sound like I'm bragging at all, but it's very difficult stuff - if you want an idea of what this sounds like look up Jaco Pastorius' "Portrait of Tracy" - I play it much faster than he did in the original recording (he would play it much faster during live performances, too) - I also add things to it, for example I do a three-string barred false harmonic slide, on a fretless bass, sliding from 9th fret fingered on G D and A strings with 13th fret for the false harmonic (both my index and pinky fingers must be perfectly parallel to pull this off, not to mention huge pressure being exerted by my index finger to keep the notes ringing through the slide) to the 4th fret, holding the harmonic, then back up to the 9th fret. Sometimes, I go from 9th fret on those 3 strings with 13th fret false harmonic, slide down to 4th, then up to 10th, then down to 9th. They're very hard to pull off - I literally have never heard another bassist do these things, ever. All Jaco did was hold the false harmonic chord - I added the sliding.

Bass is my main instrument - again I am not trying to brag at all, but I've never heard anything I can't play on bass - whether it's Jaco Pastorius or Victor Wooten or Stanley Clarke or Marcus Miller or any good bass player. It's been a special interest of mine for 14 years (bass playing specifically).

Everytime I have to travel I'm taken out of my comfort zone and have a lot of trouble dealing with people. I get upset so easily and in some cases lose my temper. If I want to do something bad enough than I will travel.

Anyhow, speaking of singing. I don't sing very good but I sure loved operating the backhoe loader. This is the first time I operated one of these big guys. This music video went over big with construction and excavation companies. The owners of the one constructon company didn't like my other video but wanted this one instead.

Alice digs and sings

Do you have any videos of you singing?

I'll watch that now. No, but if I am ever brave enough, I'll sing Evanescence and post it on here. I'm extremely shy singing in front of people, haha.

Sadly alot of my wood creations were stolen by so called family but I should have pictures and I will post them when I can
One of the first things I made was large scale carvings of the characters in the cartoon Leo The Lion.

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I know what you mean. I've had a lot of my artwork stolen over the years. Not by family, but by friends and co-workers.

That would be cool to see. I'm sorry your art was taken away.

I've had music stolen from me - people taking my ideas and using them and calling them their own.

I also hate it when people think my playing is theirs. The other day a friend of mine showed me a recording from months ago, where we were jamming out on a new song idea - he thought it was him playing the keys, and refused to believe that it was me. I remembered coming up with the line - I remembered making the original recording - I even had played that thing I made up multiple times since then. Then I just said "you aren't good enough to play that on keys, how could you possibly have done that 6 months ago when you were even worse at them?" He and our drummer looked at each other for a few seconds at that point - not sure why. Then I went up to his keyboard and played the line and invited him to come up and do the same. They dropped the subject.

The thing is I just get -EXTREMELY- defensive about my own work, and I'll get very nasty when people claim my work is theirs, even if they're just not remembering the session and wondering out loud "hm, i think that might be me on keys there" when it was really me.