I am suspicious that I might have savant syndrome

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I am suspicious that I might have savant syndrome. What should I do?


I feel like I have Savant Syndrome.

When my restricted interests get so intense, I start to learn from it very fast.

I feel much more intelligent than normal people in so many different ways, but I don't know how to do simple math at all.

For example; I get so caught up into my interests about psychology and the human body to the point where I disconnect from reality.




I have a history of Cognitive Learning Disorder, Language Disorder, Dyscalculia, Dyslexia, Motor Learning Disorder and Dysgraphia.

"The essence of modern management is to make individual strengths productive, and individual weaknesses irrelevant."
- Peter Drucker

My advice would be to find someone who is glad to pay for something you love doing.

What if you made basic math one of your restricted interests, and really worked at it? If you aren't willing to do so, how can you expect yourself to learn it? I think people have a hard time starting at 0. It's much easier to play to your strengths (which I encourage doing as well).

I don't think the OP was wanting to learn math, just to illustrate an uneven development. However, if someone has been exposed to the US "Common Core" version of math, they should not despair - that is a waste of time for 99.9% of people. I got some clues about math from school, but basically learned it by trying out new operations with single-digit numbers, so I could check the result in my head before plugging in the big numbers and getting the desired answer.

It's not that I don't want to learn math, I like math, but I just have bad relationships with math.



I don't know how to multiply and divide at all.


I can't even add some numbers and two digits numbers without counting my fingers and I have a very hard time subtracting some double digit numbers.

I also have trouble with spelling, etc ( I use computers to help myself with spelling, etc )

Last edited by FranzOren on 31 Aug 2020, 9:00 pm, edited 3 times in total.

I have a history of Cognitive Learning Disorder, Language Disorder, severe case of Dyscalculia, mild Dyslexia, mild Motor Learning Disorder and moderate Dysgraphia

I have other problems with math too

Multiplication and division of numbers with more than one digit is fairly laborious by hand, but now very easy by calculator. The important thing is knowing where to do them in a series of calculations. The series feels a bit like a story that makes sense.

Thank you

I imagine that a lot of people can't do math particularly well, and rely on a calculator for practical tasks. So it's not really such a bad thing. Unless math is your chosen field, you won't end up using it in your daily life very much. I've met quite a few people who have said they "suck at math" or "hate math", and have good jobs anyway and seem to be doing fine in their lives.

Do other autistic people's specialist interests work like a choice?

Mine don't.

If not then it's not surprising that OP finds learning about their specialist interest easy but something else like maths hard.