Absolute pitch.

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Well I just read about absolute pitch, and I've always been able to do that. I thought everyone could, but I guess not.

only relative pitch for fudo, not that more is really necessary, but it would be nice..

As a kid I remember when my parents first told me that nobody else could hear and remember exact pitches and harmony like me. Before that, I always got very angry in music class in elementary school because some of the other kids couldn't even sing in tune at all, and I could only assume they were doing it on purpose.

It's only natural for people to assume that others experience the world in the same fundamental ways because it's impossible to know otherwise without "comparing notes" somehow, or being told.

I don't think I do. I'm told I'm sometimes a little sharp, but close to the actual note. If I can't hear myself, forget it. I also cannot pick apart the notes in a single chord.
However, I found I can harmonize okay. We had my youngest sister, who we think may have AS because she is just like me, and my best friend who is a diagnosed aspie over and played Beatles Rock Band. We started singing along and at the end of "Ticket to Ride," I think, my best friend said, "Meet the all female Crosby, Stills and Nash," because evidently we all sang in proper three part harmony without realizing it.

I just read up a little bit on absolute pitch and am pretty sure that James May has it, considering that he recorded the Top Gear theme tune using car engines.

Reading up on it, I probably do have it. Though I couldn't tell you the name of the notes.

I was just out last night with a couple old friends, one of whom has it. He's actually one of only two or three people I know whose ear is similar to mine, and he has synesthesia like me too. Somehow the subject of AS came up, and it turns out that he has it! I would have never suspected it at all, especially since I have never noticed any signs of it socially, but it could be that it's a marginal or sub-clinical case like mine. This is extremely exciting to me, because this is the first time I've discovered that someone I know has it.