Autism-ism?

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Mine is to be able to tell what belt is made of what just by feeling it.

Mine is to learn songs on the keyboard without reading music.

Hearing a song and playing it back(on key board,clarinet, or sax).

Doing puzzles face down.

Brained wired for music. Perfect pitch+ exceptional musical memory+ strong understanding of and response to music.

Very fast reading+ very early reading age (younger than 3.) WITH comprehension.

I don't know.

The fact that I was both obsessed with Routemasters and speaking with a Cockney accent my whole life, and I was born in Canada.

Whoa, hold on people, I gotta say something here...

I'm a hardcore musician (guitarist), and know for a fact once you get to a certain level of skill and proficiency music can be learned, memorized, and played just by hearing it. Its just called a developed ear.

I refuse to believe, of all my quirks, that my exceptional musical talent (to include perfect pitch) is an autistic trait.






.....right?

did you know that if you write protective shell syndrome in google, autism will show up?

I have excellent self-awareness, both physical and mental awareness, and therefore have been fascinated by studying myself: I am my favorite labrat.

I'm a scientist and an artist.

I have an excellent memory for faces and hands; suck at names.

I'm good at organizing information.

I'm extremely visual.

Poor reading comprehension.

I'm stubborn.

Strong lyrical skills and very natural with music.

It can be. The autistic brain is just more prone to talent in certain areas, one of those being music. --Not to say all auties and all autistic families are prone to musical talents; for instance, mine wasn't but was better with art and writing and visuospatial stuff (although the visuospatial was more for the men, and the art/writing was for the women).

That's not to say that even the greatest musical savants don't utilize practice and get better at their trade. They may have prodigious talent without trying very hard, but there's still some amount of practice and learning involved.

numerical patterns

Remembering number sequences. And they call me a walking medical book because I remember every medical term, test, Rx drug name (plus what it is prescribed for and it's side effect profile) that I have ever heard or read about. It is my "special interest". We all have a body, we ought to know how it all works and why, right?

I'm a compulsive liar.

I taught myself to read, and was reading at an adult level when I was six.

It seems like I'm some freak of nature, or something.