Do you have a "savant" gift or gifts?

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What do you do better than anyone you have ever met?

Nope.

Nothing I can think of.

nope.

There's an artist who posts on WP from time to time. His name is VanGogh and his artwork is photorealism. They're impressive to behold so I'm sure he'd be considered as having savant skills.

I'm bright in some areas, not so much in others. No savant talents here.

Nope. Another reason why I think I'm not an Aspie.

Getting rejected.

-BAM! Straight to the feels..

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Not really, I have a strong writing ability, but it's not like I was publishing novels at the age of 10 or anything, so I wouldn't consider it a "savant" skill.

I am no savant. But I am sort of gifted in spacial and visual ability.

And like a few other replies here, I am quite good at being rejected by people. The outcome of job hunting is pretty much predictable for me.

I can twirl the hell out of a baton. Or, I could back in the day. I can still do some of it now. It's surprising now and was then because I couldn't walk down a brightly lit hallway, stone cold sober, in tennis shoes, on a dry floor, looking at the ground, with nothing there at all to trip me, and still fall down for some reason. Yet I ended up being able to throw up a baton in the air, that had been wrapped in cotton and soaked in kerosene on both ends and lit on fire, turn around three times and catch it behind my back without even singing my 1979 polyester doubleknit majorette costume, or my HUGE hotrolled hair that had at least one entire can of aerosol hairspray on it to hold it in place while I was turning around three times fast, among other things.

I also found out that I can run a balloon joint with the best of them. You know that game at the carnival? The one where you get three darts for a dollar and you throw them at the balloons? You get a prize based on the color of the tag behind the balloon. The white tags get you the default prize of the pencil or the keychain, the blue ones get you something like a mirror or a nice stuffed animal, the red ones get you the huge five foot tall stuffed animal or the big mirror. Every tag on that board is white, I put the blue or red in as I see fit and the number or people in the crowd or the amount of disgruntled the mark is. I didn't think I could do the sleight of hand or the banter. I was taught and told "Do it, you gotta do this, we drove you all the way down here with us and you ain't eating for free" so I did it. I earned good too. I surprised myself.

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I have some borderline savant skills. One in particular I rely on for employment, it really is the only reason my ‘other stuff’ is tolerated. I ‘just know’ how mechanical systems operate, and when, how, where, why things aren’t working properly. So, I troubleshoot on a different level than anyone else I’ve ever worked with. I ‘just understand’ machines, and while it was something I was always good at, even as a child I had a knack for it, I’ve honed it to uncanny proficiency over the years.

I mostly utilize it in maintaining and repairing equipment. But have also used it to innovate said equipment, improve upon the current implementation for either greater reliability or efficiency.

I would classify this as a borderline savant skill, or savant-like. Of the various things I’m proficient at, this one is fundamentally intuitive, it isn’t due to study or facts or knowledge, but simple instinct applied in an odd way.

no, not really, i guess in Sonic im pretty knowledgeable, and in art my dad is amazed and calls it savantism but i dont think so.

I am brilliant at math

prior to having severe seizures from drug interactions I had a nearly eidetic memory

I have an ability to learn multiple languages in a short amount of time in a rather alarming rate, I have become somewhat of a polyglot!