Gifted problems...

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Me again;)

Read this here:
pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Papers/GiftedProblems.pdf

Any similarity with AS?

I am really gifted for technology, music, i just got so many interests that i don't know which to choose as a primary!
Still, many AS are not AS, they are just gifted and just different, and many gifted are that with AS or both!

You see, the problem of gifted is that we so often feel out-of-sync in society and we got different perception on things, just read that pdf file and get close with it.

That confuses me, do i got AS or not, do i got only few traits of AS...don't know.
Where are the boundaries again?
Maybe you all can help me, what is really common with all peoples with AS?
I've read on the web criterias and symptoms, but that is not enough.
I want to hear it from your personal experiences.

Bye,

Gifted

gifted, the best thing is to have a look round this board and see what resonates with you. no one here can diagnose you, i'm afraid.

but good hunting

Especially with all these great forums, like Television, arts crafts music...
There are a few other ones that would be great to rummage through. i have an idea for one, which I might contact an administrator about...

Not to be rude, but you certainly are full of yourself. That's a positive AS sign.

Maybe there isn't any difference between Asperger's Syndrome and giftedness. The problem with that idea is that many people with Asperger's Syndrome are not gifted. I know that I am certainly not gifted. Traditionally one who is gifted is accomplished or exceptional in a range of things, but most people with Asperger's Syndrome are not because Asperger's Syndrome has a tendency to narrow a person's range of interests. This does not mean that it is impossible for a person who has Asperger's Syndrome to be a gifted individual, it just means that it is more difficult for a person with Asperger's Syndrome to be gifted in the traditional sense.

It is true that people who are gifted may come up against social barriers because of a difference of intellectual functioning, but in most cases these barriers are mild compared to a person with Asperger's Syndrome. A person who is gifted but without Asperger's Syndrome would not have the problems of sensory overload or stimming that occur normally with a person who has Asperger's Syndrome. A person who is gifted would have no problem playing a combat flight simulator while listening to a Verdi aria, whereas only a few people with Asperger's Syndrome would be able to do this. (I am sure that somewhere out there exists someone who has Asperger's Syndrome and has a topical focus of both airplanes and opera, and this would be almost a classic thing for that person to do if that person is able to handle two major simuli simultaniously.)

So it is true that there may be people who are "merely" gifted who are diagnosed as having Asperger's Syndrome with a false positive, and there may be people who are "merely" having Asperger's Syndrome who are falsely identified as being gifted. And there are people who are both gifted and have Asperger's Syndrome. These are two different conditions that are independent of each other, but share some symptoms. That's why in the diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome one must have a number of symptoms -- the chance that a person has this number of symptoms and yet does not have Asperger's Syndrome is smaller than the chance of a person having giftedness without Asperger's Syndrome and still having the same number of symptoms that are associated with Asperger's Syndrome.

I've never had trouble focusing on 2 or more things at once........ well, apart from when wearing my headset and trying to watch TV

How about playing guitar, watching TV, and talking on the phone at the same time?

How about chewing gum, chewing skittles, and chewing tobacco at the same time? (Eewwwwww)

Proof that IQ level doesn't mean anything right here.

Okay.............

I am both gifted and Aspergers. Anyone else?

Me. It seems very common.

Asperger's syndrome implies giftedness because Asperger's syndrome itself is a gift. Therefore, if you have AS, you are gifted!

I say it again. I am intelligent, and a deep thinker, but I seriously doubt that I can be classified as gifted. I lack the range of skills required to be considered gifted.

Paul i have to disagree with you. I was diagnosed with AS, and I am quite gifted ever since i was young!! I have great talent for music to play the piano, I can visually reproduce anything I can see and I have been able to learn Asian Languages like Korean and Japanese with little effort..... so I think Asperger's can also contirbute to being ableto posess such gifts. My parents and sibilings do not share my gifts, so it must be from AS!!

Um, i think all Paul is saying is that he has AS and does'nt consider himself gifted. That's his perspective. How can you argue with that? I wouldnt say im gifted either in the context it is generally used today. Id say the genuinely gifted people with AS or NT's for that matter is a small minority.

See how many of these characteristics apply to you. I've emboldened the ones that I have.