Does anyone ever use their "special abilities"?

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Wow can I ever relate to those that talk about following driving and travel directions, and being good with those. My husband is an Aspie. We are not big travelers at all, but once he was working on a project in Amsterdam and I met him over there. I was amazed at how we went everywhere from Volendam to Arnhem to Haarlem..zip-zip-zip. With him, we transferred with the same ease that I would change the TV remote. It did not matter that it was a foreign language and we're not up on killometeres. It was almost like having a savant tour guide...wonderful. That's a good type of hypersensitive.

Here's the bad type. He rather micromanages every finite detail of my life and it makes me crazy. For the last 15 years, when we get in the car, before I have even a nanno-second to reach down and pick up the seat belt latch, he says, "Don't forget to put on your seat belt."

I am a 58 year old lady that as a single mother, raised two highly productive children, one is a professor at a major university and I can't even be in the kitchen and place a bowl on the counter with out my husband saying something like, "Use this other bowl. It is round. It will work better." He seems to jump right in on everything. If someone ask ME a question, he answers it. So, being the sarcastic person that I can be, of late, I have been repling, "Do I look like I am wearing a berka?"

I agree about being able to discuss things that I always thought were bizarre and it gives you a certian acceptance of yourself - I know that I took my truck in to have some work done on it a few weeks ago and the problem was that it was making a funky noise from the right rear tire - well, I had told them it was the left rear tire when I talked to them on the phone and when I got there I realized it was the right side (I have a problem with left and right, too - the way I remember it is that I write with my right hand) - but instead of getting all embarassed at the mechanic I just said 'Yeah, well, I have a problem with left and right - sorry I told you wrong, but it really is the right side . . .' - like it is their problem if they don't understand, not mine . . .

I must try this method - maybe it will work for me too? I am sick and tired of having to wait for the alarm to beep and then press the button to silence it!


Ghost, If you know something on the subject, than I would be very grateful if you let me know. But I think that my compass is not magnetic. It is probably a "post-sensory cognitive awareness", akin to the 3D depth perception. There is no special organ for depth perception - it is a sense which is "calculated" in the brain. The same, I believe, is with my compass. My brain calculates angles on the basis of information coming from eyesight and sense of balance.

ME TOO!

i had this phase of waking of up 8.36am every morning without an alarm clock. it lasted for like 3 weeks

You mean there is someone else like me, I thought I was the only person in the world!

I use my "special abilities" at school (not in the best way though): I always hear my teachers overtalking even if they are standing outside of the classroom. Not the best thing though, if I ever let anything I hear slip I could get myslef into tons of trouble. I also once found an electric wire that had overheated inside the wall of my room by its buzzing sound.

I can tell wether a person has good or bad vibes

Has this saved you before in real-life situations when you found yourself in that moment?

Well lately I've been hearing things (Telephone ringing, child crying) or smelling things (noodles, a sweet perfume) that aren't really there. And when I think about it hard enough, I can usually put myself in someone else's place (ie: My best friend lives further away, and I was wondering what she would be doing...so I thought "If i was her, I would do this...." then I could see myself doing it as if I was her. I asked her if she did that activity. and I was right! She did! Weird....)

There was a period of time several months ago (maybe even a year or so ago) when all I was smelling was peanut butter. I have a feeling that I may be smelling things in the last days and weeks, perhaps a "subconscious sense" or "subconscious senses" exist.....

I'm not really sure, but it happens all of the time. Sometimes I hear a man's voice speaking, but I can't understand the words. It is pretty creept...and I smell the purfume ALL the time... Maybe I'm bugging out... ?

Magic I have that same special ability!

"The strangest ability that I have is a built-in compass"

Its like an in built global postioning system. I love it, very useful, very often I can tell precisely where magnetic north is too, which has been tested many times, do you find that too?

This is fantastic! You are the first person who understands me!

My compass has a maximum error of about 20 degrees (I think it was slightly better in my childhood). But the magnetic declination can cause similar inaccuracy (e.g. in Seattle, WA compasses are off from true north by 18 degrees), so it's not really that bad. It is usually within 5-10 degrees of true north.

Do you see directions without thinking? For me it is something like seeing color. Each object that I see has an "orientation", for example a room has red walls and a window facing South. If the owner repaints the walls green, the room would surely look different. Similarly, if it were in a mobile home and the owner moved it so that window would now face West, the room would look completely different to me. Do you also experience it this way?

Its a sense thats very clear, and precise. I move my head to the left and right and can tell the direction or where north is. Its something I can just do, its automatic. Nice to find someone else with it.

It's nice indeed! I am curious about the details. Do you remember directions together with visual imagery? For example, do you recall the orientation of places/rooms/buildings in your memories? If you fall asleep in a car, does your compass work immediately after waking up, or does it require "initialization", for example by consulting a map to figure out current orientation? How precise is your compass? Did you take magnetic declination into account when calculating this accuracy? Does your compass work at all times, or do you have periods (or places) where it malfunctions (or does not function at all)? If the latter, do you feel disoriented in such situations?
Oh, I have so many questions that it looks like a start for the CQ (Compass Quotient) test! I hope that you don't mind; I am just very curious... Thanks!

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I also have the built in alarm clock thingy, I will wake just before the alarm goes off, or if I repeat a time to myself before going to sleep I will wake at that time.

I also have mimicry skills, I can reproduce voices, speaking or singing, usually straight after hearing them. If it's been a while since I've heard a voice then I'm not sure I could do it as well, it's like a parroting thing I spose.

Mimicry comes very much in handy if you want to use it as an "icebreaker" and entertain others in a social gathering. People love impersonations and standup comedy. Have you ever used it this way before?