What are your awesome Aspie skills?

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I notice things before anyone else does, also things they don't even notice at all.

I notice your modesty. When did you lose it?

I do that too. Usually it is something shiny like a nail or a tack on the floor.

That's really sweet, you are trying to make a connection. I notice them things as well as shiny objects.

my aspie powers

-confusing body language when i want to
-mad drumming skills, without lessons or a drumset (i play on a friend's once every couple weeks)
-languages (i learned almost 4 years worth of spanish curriculum from 1. intuition 2. a semester of exposure 3. learning other languages
-ability to create good first impressions
-intelligence and wisdom to the max
-mega concentration

Figuring out what all the buttons on things do within seconds without even having to press them. I have no idea why I'm good at this, but it comes in handy.

Resourcefulness, tied to visual skills. Once scraped the frost off the car window with a CD case and fashioned a Christmas tree out of bedslats, green sweaters, colored twine, and a pair of tennis shoes.

Extraordinary reading and writing ability (the NYT said this is very common in girls with AS in the same way that math skills are common in boys with AS)

Memory (mom calls me her "blackberry" sometimes)

A beautiful immunity to at least some of our societal trash.

First off, I am a trained Civil Engineer. Some of my abilities include:

1) The ability to mentally turn 3-Dimensional objects around in my head randomly and repetitively in order to see things from a different angle (no I don't get dizzy and doing it is quite fun)

2) I have an extraordinary ability to remember dates in history as well in my personal life. I can accurately remember events in my life since I was 2 1/2 years old. I can also tell you many of my ancestor's birthdays and anniversaries, going back 5 or 6 generations. There is always a before & after, and telling time is very important to me.

3) I have a photographic memory when it comes to remembering maps. This includes states and capitals, the nations of the world, specific towns and counties in my vicinity, the planets of the solar system, and every road and side street in my hometown. (Knowing where I am at is very important to me.) Remembering places is directly related to remembering time. My mind literally looks like a solar system in Einstein's Space-Time Continuum. Remember that the GPS doesn't work unless it knows what time it is. (I keep forgetting though where I place my car keys.)

4) When doing advanced math, such as algebra or calculus, I do not see the actual equations on paper. I visualize the actual motions that are occurring as they travel through space.

5) I am a master of the English language, and I am able to consistently say humorous things with double meanings. I am also fluent in Spanish (¡Ay Caramba!).

6) I am also a talented artist, and I especially enjoy painting and drawing.

I've been told I'm very good at solving mechanical problems.
I actually used to get annoyed with people for interrupting me to help them with something. I could see the problem in seconds and fix it. A lot of the times they'd say "how the hell did you do that?"
Apparently I came off as a bit of an ass about it because I gave the impression that they were wasting my time doing something so simple.

I can also visualize mechanical things in my head very vividly. It's as if I have a CAD program in my head. It's the same way with fiction books. I listen to audiobooks at work and it's like watching a movie in my head while my body's on autopilot.

I'm also pretty good at mazes. I can somehow look at the whole thing and find the path through it without having to backtrack.

Not sure if these are actually aspie traits, they're just what I'm good at.

Music (I play several instruments as well as DJ), audio engineering & recording, stage lighting, visuals and effects, computers (building, repairing and operating), marksmanship, reading (was already at college level upon entering middle school).

I've read before that an adult my age isn't supposed to hear (let alone learn to produce) subtle differences in sounds when it comes to a new language... Before I knew I was an Aspie, I thought that was BS, since I always hear the minute differences in both languages, as well as accents within a language (even if it's not a language I'm fluent in!) I learned how to roll my Spanish R's around 17 years old, after a teacher told me that (due to my age) I'd never be able to do it. I've learned to make many different sounds that don't exist in English, but do in other languages. I actually consider it my hobby.

I'm also pretty good at guessing what language is being spoken around me, even if I've never heard it spoken before.

But I'm not as good at that as I am with this: You can give me almost any word, in English (or in a Romance language, even), and I can tell you with high accuracy what language it originates from. It's not that I studied a dictionary to remember every word (although I have studied dictionaries in the past, *cough*), but that there are certain characteristics to words that only come from certain languages. For example, words with that use "ph" instead of "f" are likely from Greek, and words that deal with sea travel are likely from Scandinavian. I guess I'm just really good at remembering all those little details.

I learn systems extremely fast and I'm good at seeing how things are related to each other.

I'm really funny, apparently.

Wicked good at math.

Eat 10 cheeseburgers in 10 minutes.

I think I tend to remember things visually as well. I guess that's why ortography comes naturally to me.

This is one of my main... things. I just can't type in an internet way. I'd have to learn it like a new language and I mostly don't see the point. Although I am very fond of certain abbreviations. And smilies. I am... obsessed with smilies.


Learning songs from sheet music can be fun, but it's even more fun to do it without. ^^ I don't have a piano though, so I can't do it most of the time. I used to do it when I was still at home.


I also remember random data for longer periods of time. I remember birthdates quickly as well.

The real disadvantage is that I cannot remember things I am interested in or don't understand.

-I'm very good at reading
-I'm very good at spelling
-I'm very good at writing
-I'm very observant
-I'm detail oriented
-I'm patient with people
-I'm respectful
-I'm calm and quiet
-I'm a good listener
-I'm very punctual
-I'm loyal
-I'm pretty honest
-I know a lot of random facts
-I'm pretty independent
-I'm a good mediator
-I love doing the boring repetitive work
-I love organizing things
-I have a good long-term memory