Do all autistics have special abilities?

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HiccupHaddock
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09 Apr 2022, 8:16 am

Dear all,

I'm wondering what do you think about the autistic twins described by Oliver Sacks, who he said could work out whether enormous numbers are prime numbers?
https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/o ... zing-twins
If this story was true, that was really very amazing. Actually, I find it hard to believe, it would be so amazing.

By the way, I think that many of you likely have 'special abilities', if you consider those to be great aptitudes and gifts in certain areas. I think that even if some non-autistic people could have the same aptitudes and gifts, they are still something to be treasured and proud of.



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09 Apr 2022, 10:35 am



"Temple Grandin," Attributed Much
of Her Success in Life to A Mother Who
Stood By Her Side, Gave Her Love, And

Believed In Her; It's True,

The Environment

of Love We Are

In From Young Or

Not, Will Make A Huge Difference
on Whether or Not We Will Meet Our
Human Potentials in Special Ways of Being

Unique to our Own Ways of Being, "Seeing,"

And Doing Our Own Brand New UniVerses Within

Every Breath of Life We Take; Whether it is Less or More

Than Inhaling Peace Exhaling LoVE iN JoY oF LiGHT For All
Giving, Sharing, Caring, Healing All With Least Harm Always Now...

All of Existence Is A Spectrum;

All of Existence Is Still Potential to Come;

For One Who Is Told From Young There Are No
Limits to What They Might Do And Become, Oh How

That Will Make A Difference For Those Who Only Hear Limits in Life,

Or Even Worse, Are Neglected And Abused By Not Only Peers Yet Family too...

There Are Folks Who Spend Their Lives Doing Their Best to Rain on Other Folk's Parades...

There Are Folks Who Spend Their Lives Protecting The Marginalized And Different From Harm...

There Are Folks Who Visit in Dreams And Sprinkle Pixie Dust to Help Others Bring Their Dreams to Fruition Now...

i Appreciate Clouds

As Much As Sunshine

As Clouds Are What

Bring Works of Art in Skies to Life
As Every Sunset And Sunrise is A Work of Art New

As Every Flower Blooms Differently As Each Human
Does, Whether Wilting Old or Flowering New Clouds

Help Us Appreciate Sunshine

As Rain Brings Us Life to Be...

i Appreciate the DarK Experiences of my Life
The Places That Prepared me to See How Much of Existence
is Miracle For Every Breath i Take As It's True That is my Special

Ability of Label
of Autism Or Not;
As if Not Finally Failing

The Expectations of Modern
Society And Increasing Demands
on Both Social Empathic And Mechanical
Cognition All At Once As Humans Are Evolved

To Focus on One Task, Like Capturing Prey and
Being Mindfully Aware Enough From Head to Toe
And With a Larger Picture Eye on the Environment to

Escape

Harm

From Predators too;

Nah, Without the Demands

Of Modern Culture, i Would Have
Likely Never Been Diagnosed With

Anything At All Yet The Dude That
Smiled and Made Most Folks Happy
Assisting Others From the General Public...

My Mother Said When i Was A Child i Had Open

Arms For Everyone Without Discrimination, Indeed That
Is Special Ability Enough at that Point Innately By Birth
And Nurturing By Mother of Course; Lord Knows Difference


Between
me Being
Incarnate Love
Now Most All Minutes

of the Day or Some Child
of A Lesser God Than Love...

So What Has that Gift; That Special Ability

Brought me in Life; Yes, A Life of Fearlessness

As There is No Room For LoVE iN Fear When it Comes in Human Form...

So What Has That Brought Others; A Whole Lot of Joy NoW iN Life As i Fear

No Naysayers like the Ones Who Suggested, i Looked Ridiculous When i Started

my Autotelic Flow of Meditation And Contemplating Life in Public Dance; As It's True

i had No Lessons For Dance; A Novice, i Allowed Intuition to Teach me Each and Every Move...

i Suppose We Can Also Let Others

Judge Whether We Are Special or Not;

Yet It's True When We Generate Our Own

Happiness, Otherwise Known as 'The Kingdom
of Heaven Within,' Nirvana, Bliss, Samadhi, Tao, Prana,
Kundalini Rising; And True More Than Even A 'Common' Feeling Indeed

The Metaphors Vary Cross-Culturally Yet Obviously Studying Comparative
Philosophies And Religions Many Folks Have Attained Within This Special Place of Being;

Yet It's True That is Unique to Each Individual; And Two Folks May Be Sitting Next to Each
Other In Some Kind of Public Transportation; Or on a Park Bench, Or Wherever, And one Person

May Be Living in an Invisible
Hell While the Other Lives in
An Invisible Heaven As Special
As Special Gets Totally Invisible to

The Person Sitting in A Hell of Their Co-Creation
too Depending On Nature And Nurture too; As Life Surely

isn't Fair

As i've
Seen the
Dungeon With
a Life Threat of
19 Medical Disorders,
Including the Worst Pain
Known to Humankind for 66
Months From Wake to Sleep; Yes,
Type Two Trigeminal Neuralgia Identified
Sub-Clinically As the Suicide Disease that No

Drug would
Touch for me...

Yet You See That And
Periods of Deep And Dark
Depression Off and On Through
The Ages of 19 Thru 21; And Basically

My Peers in School Suggesting i was too
Weak and Strange Acting and Looking to Exist

And Losing A Child to Only 51 Days of Pain; And So

Many Other Struggles that We all Encounter in Life; All Those

Clouds Only Made me appreciate Sunshine Even More And When

i Finally

Saw How
Great A Gift
All Those Clouds

Are i Became Twilight

A Balance of DarK and LiGHT

Loving All Of Existence As is Unconditionally;

Anyway Empirically Speaking That kind Of Attitude

Leads to Measurable Parts of Life, Like Public Dancing
16,344 Miles in 103 Months; With Viral Videos Documenting
Assessments From the General Public Like Living Legend, Hero,
Famous, And If You Haven't Seen me, You Must Not Get Out Much

as i am Practically

Everywhere in Real

Life Then and Still Now
in my Metro Area, hehe...

It's True i Get Around Online too
Globally Responding Poetically in Free
Verse in An Anthology of Longest EPiC Long
Form Poetry to the Tune of 'The SonG oF mY SoUL'

Measurable at 10.3 MiLLioN Words During the Course
of the Public Dance for 103 Months Now too; Additionally,

Approaching 62 Years Old Now on 6.6.2020, i Am Still Practically

As Strong in Leg Strength as An Orangutan As Yes, Science Shows
That Humans Who Move Enough And Adapt to Resistance in their Environment

Can And Do Become That Strong as Yes, i Still Leg Press up to 1520 Pounds at the
Military Gym i Work Out At; Noting i used to be known Again As the Weakest Last Kid

Picked
on
Sports
Teams in School;

And Do Note, i Still
Don't Do Team Sports,

Even Though Toward the
End of my Career With the
Federal Government After Earning
3 College Degrees all at Once With
3 Part Time Jobs With that Full School Work Load

At Once After my Stint of A Non-Verbal Child Who Couldn't

Speak Until i Am Four Back in 1964; True Towards The End of
my Federal Government Career Doing That for 25 Years out of
my 33 Years of Jobs for Pay, i Was An Athletic Director For a Military

Installation, Not
For My Expertise
for that Position; Yet

Seen as A Valuable Commodity
For my Information Technology
And Financial Management Skills
That i largely Learned on my Own Away From Work...

And Away From School too as My Degrees Were in
Health Science, Social Sciences Interdisciplinary, And
Anthropology as i Was More Interested in Learning to Be Human

Than Becoming A Human
Business Machine, Computer,
Or Engineer to Keep Parts Oiled
in the Machine of Society then As

True They Used to Have Signs in Classes
And Computer Labs that Said Get Out and
About and Do Human; Beware, Don't Lose Your

Humanity
As Just
A Cog in
The Machine of Society

As Even Science Shows Now
That Mechanical Cognition Activities
Done in Exclusion to Social Empathic
Human Activities Withers Away Our Humanity For Real this way...

i Didn't Learn About that until i Came to the 'Wrong Planet' Seeing
How i might Change my Autism Quotient Score to Lower than 45;

And my Emotional Intelligent Quotient in the Mid-50's then to A Different

Score too; And It's true in that old Personality Test, INTJ Was Getting A Bit

Boring to me; (And Yes, Through An Autotelic Flow of Free Verse Poetry
And Free Dance, i Changed All That in The Summer of 2013, in Terms of AQ
Score to 11; EQ Score to 95; And INTJ to ENFP; Yet of Course, With Experience
i Can And Will Switch Hit on Demand With Relative Free Will Still Now For Real)

It's True Spending
The Last 5 Years at
Work Behind a Screen
Still Responsible For So
Many Employee's Behaviors on
The Job Ranging From Over 30 to
Over 130, Depending on if i was Filling in
For the Director of the Department too; Increased

My AQ Score Greatly as it Was only 32, When i Worked
More with the Military and General Public Than When i Became

Glued to A Computer Screen;

Yes, Environment Counts in Model
of Human Being Vehicle And Vessel
As Well as Make of Human Being Now too...

So Eventually, Not on 'Purpose'; Yet Just A Gift Within
Deeper For What Some Folks Religiously Might Describe as 'Logos'

The 'Dance/Song' of my more Right Hemisphere Social-Empathic-Artistic-Spiritual

Human Potential Came into Existence For me in the Art of Dance And Song Free
in Poetry i Started

to BREaTHE Then

And Still Now Flowing
Effortlessly in a 'Wu Wei'
Ease of Dance And Song in Poetry Now...

Yet it's True, it Took Several Million Words
Over A Course of Around 33 Months on 'this
Internet Site' Discussing Most Everything in the

World in A Very Concrete And Approved English

Spelling and Grammar Way of Communicating; Yeah,

in my Underwear Behind my Computer Shut-in, in my
Home With Debilitating Illness; Laser Focused Debating the

"Autism Speaks
Conspiracy
Theorists Back Then;"

HAha, Folks 'Here' Accused me
of Actually Working for the Organization Yet

Just At Home Trying to Get my Mind off the
Suicide Disease, Not Knowing in that Entire 66 Months
Whether i Could Survive Another Second in Life; Here's

'The Thing':

Life isn't Fair;

When even the
Memory of A Smile
is Gone And there is No
Reference Point if 'You' Ever Felt

A Smile in Your Life; All That's Left

Is the Will to Survive, Mostly Generated

By Our Oldest Reptile Brain to Eat, Drink,
Find Shelter, And Reproduce; And You Lose

All Your Fear And All Your Hope You Just Take the

Next Breath Without Any Peace or Love At All; Yet When

You Gain the Ability to Inhale Peace And Exhale Love Again;

It's All Heaven

And You (me) Just
Give It All away Now

For Free As You Find

Yourself Naked, Enough, Whole,
And Complete; Not Everyone Goes to Hell

Within; Not Everyone Gets Out;

i Had a Nephew We Just Buried
Yesterday at 30 Years-old Who Didn't Make it
Out; He Was a Human too; His Was Name Was Cody;

Not By Blood Relation, Through my Wife's Blood Yet

Just another

Veteran

of HeLL ON EArTH;

It's True i get 'Mythed' off too,

When i Hear ignorant Folks Say All you
Have to Do to Get to Heaven is say A Magic

Recipe of Romans 10:9; to Avoid Getting Burned Forever
After Death And Wait For Heaven in A Dirt Nap After Death;

It's True, i don't
Want People to
Have to Go to Hell Now;

And i Surely Hope Not Everyone

Has to Go to HeLL ON EartH Within

To Find Every Breath A Miracle of Heaven Now...

Does this
Make
me
Special;

Special Is As Special Does;

Without A Grain of Sand Now, Still,

It is Impossible to Hold Up Mountains
of Human Love; Yes, There are Many More
Than One; Occasionally, i meet them in my
Global Travels As an 'Avatar' online Squeezing

All 245 Pounds of me And More of my Soul
Through this Fiber Optic Cable at the Speed of Love...

And It's True, i Appreciate Folks Who Do Their Best to
Rain on the Parades of Others As Those Who Continue
to Spread Pixie Dust in Dreams of 'Lost Boys and or Girls'

To Help
Bring their
Dreams to Fruition Now;

Not Much Different than the
Gift My Mother Gave me Unconditionally

From Love As She Was the Essence of
Human Incarnate Love Then too; Yet

Her Name was only

Helen that means Light;

And it's True She Brought

Both DarK and LiGHT into the

World As Well All Do; As i surely

Still Do too As i Understand Fully Now DarK Brings LiGHT;

Every New Breath is the Opportunity to Create A New UniVerse
Within And Whether or Not We Want to or Not We Do As Reality is Change...

i Choose to
Staycation in
Heaven Within

Yet it Doesn't Exist
Without Every New Color of DarK and LiGHT...

We Found the Letter Linked Below, in my Mother's Home After my
Mother Passed Away on February 22nd, 2017, After Unexpectedly

And Fittingly,

Going to Her
Hospice Death
Bed Suddenly

on Valentine's Day of 2017...

She Wrote it on my 33rd Birthday,

And It's True it Took me Until 53 Years-Old to Actually

Do it And About 44 Months After That to Actually Find it And Read it...

It's True,

It took that
Long to Make
it All Come True...

As 'They' Say, "There are more things in heaven
and Earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy [science]."

My Mother's Special Ability Was her Belief That If You Truly Believe, Things Will
Work Out Okay...

It Took me

53 Years,

And i Finally
Inherited Her
Gift After Being a 'Matrix
Architect' i Finally Gained
The Balance of 'The Oracle' too...

Meh, Balancing Yin and Yang; Nothing
And All Things

New Under

A Balance

of Day and
Night DarK And LiGHT

And Clouds That Make Most

Beautiful Sunsets And Sunrises New With
A Little Special Ability Help From Sun Above Below...

Hehe, Usually i'm Also
'Too Big For Most Folks'
to 'See' and Hear' When i Start
Talking About All my Special Interests...

Such is the Condition;

Such is the Gift;

Such is the Ability; Without Folks
Like me/Us There Would Be No Sistine
Chapel Paintings, Or Moonlight Sonatas

or the
Tesla
Company
Either and
Likely Still Coming
Trillionaires too; However,

There Are Also Might Not Be
Anyone Who Visited All of Dante's

Rings of Hell And More and Actually Came Back

to Describe the Difference Between Real Hell and Heaven Now;

Trust me or Not, You Don't Want

to Go Where i've Been And

You Probably Would

Like to come to
the place i Exist
Now Yet of course

Only if you Have Been
to the Places i've Been; As This
Applies Uniquely to Almost All of Us...
It's Always A Special Ability to Bring Folks
Up and Help Them See Where they Currently Are...

Jesus F in Christ, Look at All the Lifeless Hot And Cold Rocks Above

Isn't This Special Enough; Yes, Naked, Enough, Whole, Complete This Miracle of Breath;

It's True, my Only
Son Ryan Along With

The Gift of A Smile He Never Experienced
At all Never Able to Breathe on His Now Might

Shed Some
Tears for

This Miracle
of Existence if He Could Have then...

What's Special is Subjective And All About Perspective...

Other than that No One Rains on my Parade Now, No
Matter How Hard

they try...

It's What Happens
When Rain Drops Approach
The Source of Sunshine;
Poof, They Evaporate Like

They Never Existed At all...

Never the Less, We Still Need

'Water' to

Drink...

'Devil'
(Adversaries)
Be in Heaven too...

Yet Indeed, Just A Visitor, Rain Drops Are...

And Of Course Sunshine too As DarK Meets LiGHT...

And TWiLiGHT
Continues to
Exist Eternally New Now...

Perhaps i'm Just a 'Puzzle Piece;'
Yet i am What i am And Am i Be...

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12 Apr 2022, 10:04 pm

Texasmoneyman300 wrote:
Okay one of special abilities is preaching I am also better than most when it comes to shooting sniper rifles
"Praise the Lord, and pass the ammunition!"



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04 Jul 2022, 10:34 am

Autistic people are more likely than the average person to have almost any unusual trait X, whatever X might be.

For one of many examples, autistic people are disproportionately likely to be gay or trans. Doesn't mean all or most of us are LGBTQ+, but LGBTQ+ people are more common among autistic people than among the general public.

Similarly, autistic people are disproportionately likely to have both unusual disabilities (of whatever kind) and unusual abilities (of whatever kind). Doesn't mean every autistic person has any given ability. But, when raising autistic children, I think it's very important to look for any unusual abilities they might have and develop them.

SharonB wrote:
I think that many Autistic people have more abilities than they know b/c of invalidating, non-supportive environments. That in supportive environments they would find them. I can see that in too many classrooms Autistic children are treated as if they are incapable and they don't realize what they can do. Not every child would have savant abilities, but they would have solid abilities previously unidentified.

I fully agree. I believe many (not all) potentially have unusual abilities that were never developed.

I believe this because I'm an autistic person who WAS able to develop some unusual abilities, AND I'm aware of how lucky I was in terms of my upbringing. I would not have developed my abilities had I grown up in a more typical environment. (Details here.)


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