Anyone feel like they have no talent

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zkydz,

My tests are on Friday. I'm pretty sure I have to take another IQ test. I hate those. They make me nervous. I already know that I'm smart. "Gifted" supposedly. So why another? And the ADOS. And some others. I have to call to find out.

The IQ test you take probably won't involve much math. Mine have involved the block test, verbal stuff, manipulating pictures in the mind, pattern recognition, verbal working memory, processing speed. No complicated math.

I feel most days that my talents are not recognized. For example, job I would like to do at work is being done by an unqualified moron and since he has been there from day 1, nobody seems to realize what a terrible job he is doing. I also found that nobody would listen to me when I was younger solely because of my age. My ideas were gold but nobody seems to consider a teenager would be smarter than most adults.

Everything that I am good at (for example, systematic thinking, long term commitment in relationships) seems to take an eternity for anyone to see. Almost wish I did not have that talent.

Ya know, working in the candy store ruins many people's appetite for sweets.....

I'm not saying that people don't ever want to change careers or get tired of what they are doing.
My point was that talent, nor even success, can bring happiness. These people are incredibly talented AND successful, yet still miserable.

I thought I was buttressing your arguments, not refuting them....my mistake.....

I feel like I have no talents at all, so I can relate.

I'm not very good at anything naturally and I can't pay attention long enough or fight through discouragement enough to get good at anything. This is a constant source of sadness for me and has made me very suicidal at times because I feel utterly worthless.

I have no real skills. I'm not artistic, athletic, or creative. I'm not a diligent worker, don't have any academic interests whatsoever, and am quite lazy physically.

I always figured I'd come across something, but I feel like that time has run out and I just need to accept I pretty much suck at life.

The best talent is dedication/force of will. Natural talents don't mean much next to perseverance. Work at what interests you with all your might and you will gain the skills you need eventually.

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I laugh because it is so true!! And I see people every, friggin', waking moment complaining that people 'don't recognize their genius.'

Get out and do something then.....Most people I have known who have succeeded in life are exactly as described above. They just worked their asses off.

Talent ain't worth anything if you don't get off your keester and do something....anything.....

Well I wouldn't really consider myself highly talented at anything but there's a couple of things I'm alright it. Working on cars is one of them, I'll never be a master mechanic or anything but I'm good enough at it that when I finally get my driving licence and buy my own car I'd be able to do any work that needed doing to it by myself.

Another thing is construction, I've helped build walls and I've done a bit of woodwork and metalwork which I wasn't too bad at, I feel like if I had more practice I could become pretty good at it. I'd also like to try my hand at welding.

Everybody has a form of a talent (or possibly more), but not everyone will know what their talent(s) is/was during their lifetime. It may be very subtle, to the point that they do not realize that they have that talent until someone else spots it first. Those who have realized what talent(s) they have may not get the chance to use it/them to their full potential due to the way life happens. Someone could be incredibly talented in an area of physics, yet due to their social and economic conditions they will never get a chance to take a physics class to find that out. Maybe they realize that they are very capable in different skills that require them to have talent in that area and they find it that way.

Just because someone has talent(s) does not mean that they will ever want to use their talent everyday. That could be someone very talented in painting/drawing, yet becomes something else because they do not like art. Some talents are just not good to have, they can become curses if not under control (one of mine is this type). Then, there are those lucky few who talent lines up with their interests well. Hard work is sometimes required to make the talent "workable" though. Even talented musicians still have to practice their music once and a while. Part of life is to find your talent(s) and use them appropriately when you need to.

I feel like I have no talent for tactical things like sports or art. I am good at writing and math, but that just makes me feel like the stereotypical nerd. And then sometimes I feel like I'm not even that good at those things.

I feel as if i have strengths in art but i like to modest. I feel proud of my artistic abilities even if they are limited to sonic.

If you have no talent, you can develop one, any of you.

For example, you can learn drawing in 10 minutes. Watch below video, it is surprising.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TXEZ4tP06c

It's actually really easy to learn something if you want to, especially with people with Aspergers as we're more driven and get obsessive. If you spent a year learning an instrument, you'd be great at it. If you spent a year studying video game design you'd at least be pretty good at it. It's not hard to be amazing at something, you've just got to motivate yourself to want to.

I have a talent but has not been very useful at all not that it couldn't be useful, I just don't have the necessary supporting talents to make it work for me.

I have very strong mechanical comprehension & spacial perception but poor executive function & working memory prevent me from making good use of these talents.

My mechanical comprehension is strong enough that discussions with a friend that has 9 years of college physics-based training I have actually won some arguments with him that deal with the mechanical aspects of physics even though I didn't know the supporting math when he used the physics equations he knew he found that I was correct.

However using such has been an exercise in futility for me due to the limitations listed above.

Some of this mechanical acumen could be useful, say, in repairing cars.