Ok...I've heard a lot of talk about us ADDer's having our own unique special skills or talents. This may have run before in a thread, but if so I missed it, and besides, there's lots of new people here now too, and I'm awful curious to hear the results of this question!
Please list your special skill or talent that you have. Maybe it's the thing you 'hyper focus' on.
I will start. Let's see.....
Oh! I'll say writing for me. In my family lots of us write and when they write they take weeks or even months to write a good story. I, on the other hand, do it always in one sitting. One or two hours at the most. And I hyper focus and crank out quality stuff that always brings great compliments - which are not handed out willy-nilly in my family, they're actually quite stingy with them. LOL I only write comedy though. Can't write serious, romantic, or sad stuff. I've got no 'flow' for that. Poetry I love to write too. I do it the same way - all in one sitting. My poetry, on the other hand, usually isn't comedy.
Your turn! :D

hurting........:'<

Charismasdream,
Hurting is your special talent? You mean you're a worrier? Guilt? Or physical pain?

all..honestly.. as of lately that has been the utmost talent I have reserved for myself

I don't understand what you're saying Charismasdream...are you saying you believe you have no special talents? Or are you in need of help?

help. .... as usual.. but don't mind me .. I have ADD...




lol

Well let's meet in the chat room and talk about it Charismasdream.
And come on everyone else! I'd love to hear your special talents! Could be finding lost things! Could be painting! Could be an uncanny ability to instantly notice a fly in a room! :D

I have to get out of my house today.. so sorry no chat but keep in touch.. really
I have a talent for webpages.. design.. love it.. also to be more uplifting to others than myself.. I just got tired today.. dazzall..
but here are some examples and maybe you will all have a wonderful day..

http://members.migente.com/Sweetdreams4_u/ this one is my page
these are some I created.
http://members.migente.com/PAYASAS_PR/

http://members.migente.com/DJ_MIGHTY_MIKE/

http://members.migente.com/My1Fan/

there are others but too many too list.
take care all.
Ch...

ok. i'll chime in here.

my special talent is writing also, but not comedy. i write political and social commentary for the newspaper. i also write poetry and songs. my first book is going through the whole agent submittal process right now.

ok. i'll chime in here.

my special talent is writing also, but not comedy. i write political and social commentary for the newspaper. i also write poetry and songs. my first book is going through the whole agent submittal process right now.
Wow! That is so cool! Do you hyper focus when you write too? What is your book about? I was asked to write a book once by a CBS producer. I tried, I really tried. But the book was to be on something sad that happened and I just couldn't. I wrote about half of it and stopped. The half written book and all my resources for it lay in a chest in the closet. That's when I discovered for sure that I had no 'voice' for anything but comedy. I'd get so deeply serious and heartbreaking that I couldn't stand to write. And it didn't come out sounding right either. Too bad, because I would like to have a published book. I think writing a book is on everyone's Life To Do List. Maybe someday I'll write a comedy book. Or maybe just a comic book. :D Heck, I'll probably just draw a coloring book. Oh heck, why don't I just color a coloring book? Actually, it might be easier to just doodle on this post it note I have here in front of me....

I think my talent is writing. Though I haven't discovered my area of expertise as ya'll have done. It just has to touch me. there are many different subjects I can write on, but I think the majority could be summed up from a human nature/psychology standpoint. I can't always write though...if someone asked me to write something, I'd likely not be able to...but I just get this urge to write, and I will sit and write an entire thing all at once...if I get up or put it away, it likely won't get finished...it has to get all done at once...I guess that's hyper-focusing? ...my mind is clear, thoughts flow forward w/o a struggle and as long as I can keep typing or writing...they will continue until I am finished.

I am a photographer and my special talent within that is catching the fleeting expressions that go fast across peoples faces. I am not super technically gifted with my equipment, but I somehow "know" the moment to click the shutter.

I donnot believe i have one

I would say my talent is thinking analytically. I am Cisco Network Engineer, so I am good at "step-by-step" procedures. For example, do A, B, C, D, in a row and you will get result Z. I am also pretty good a troubleshooting and thinking outside the box.

One of my hobbies is astronomy. I just got really interested in the subject about 2 years ago. I am able to find galaxies, star clusters and nebula fairly easily. I am also in the process of building my own 12.5" reflector telescope. My brother-in-law went to college for astronomy and is amazed at how quickly I advanced my knowledge of the subject. That's how I've always been. I "hyperfocus" my brains out. Not a good thing for social relationships (wife and kids).

For example, I am posting this message on my newly installed Linux server. I'll probably gain some knowledge on Linux, get board with it and turn it off. =:)

- Tim

My special talent, if you can call it that, is being able to help others specifically convey their ideas/ thoughts to me or one another. Someone will start to say their opinion/statement, and it will only manage to be said 'halfway'. I can pick up their intentions from those words, and declare a more definitive statement on their behalf (if I feel comfortable in doing so with them) outloud, so they won't have to keep fumbling articulating their thoughts. I don't know if this is a talent though, or more of my need to 'get to the point' sometimes, and I'm trying to figure that out.
I've also gone through many years of academic training for nonverbal/body gestures, and while I don't point out people's conflicting messages between what they actually say, and what their body language suggests otherwise, I still note it silently.
I guess you would call that a proficiency, for work or otherwise, more than a talent. :D
Nova

I donnot believe i have one
I bet you do rasberryrum! I don't know you yet, but when I do get to know you I'll tell you what it is!

My special talent, if you can call it that, is being able to help others specifically convey their ideas/ thoughts to me or one another. Someone will start to say their opinion/statement, and it will only manage to be said 'halfway'. I can pick up their intentions from those words, and declare a more definitive statement on their behalf (if I feel comfortable in doing so with them) outloud, so they won't have to keep fumbling articulating their thoughts. I don't know if this is a talent though, or more of my need to 'get to the point' sometimes, and I'm trying to figure that out.
I've also gone through many years of academic training for nonverbal/body gestures, and while I don't point out people's conflicting messages between what they actually say, and what their body language suggests otherwise, I still note it silently.
I guess you would call that a proficiency, for work or otherwise, more than a talent. :D
NovaOmg! That's a HUGE talent! Are you available for hire? I NEED you to be at my side at all times! Be my translater! Pleeeeeeeeease!!!!! LOL
Truly though, I really do think that is a very grand talent. I can never get my meaning across to people clearly, and I never understand them. Frankly, I have suspected for a long time that I'm an alien undergoing a life long stress test at the hands of humans. Hence the language barrier... On my home planet we probably speak in only grunts and ughs. :D

I always had this awareness with me about Life and about the gifts that i carried into this life..like I felt I lived and experienced life in my own way..in a special way..and while the world was merely going through the dictums of daily life..I always saw, felt something extraordinary in a ordinary moment..If I may call it I consider it to be one of the gifts..

The way I experience Joy, Love, Pain. or the way I share and care is exclusive and unique and so is for everybody..just because it does not materialze as an art or skill doesnt mean it doesnt count in life.



The other gift I feel that I have is of feeling deep emotions that make me write poems..writing brings out all that I feel inside and gives my feelings a physical form..which is so relieving and something of joy and pride to me(however good or bad i may be as a poet)

As a child I always wondered about when will my gift will be realised, materialized before me and my world..I saw these unique gifts in me..but they were so different from the others that kids that..

While most of them had some skill, smartness and talent to show..my gifts were largely invisible as they had to do with heart and not mind or skill..

I think I speak for all Adders in here..that many adders go unnoticed or are ignored by the society or by themselves because they do not show the signs of accepted norms of 'gifts'..

So many times when i was infront of a doctor for add explaining my life to him/her I used to feel awakward telling them about my gifts and the 'light' that I saw in myself..because for them it was only something of a creation of my 'wild imagination'..as I had nothing to show to them..it didint existed for them..

I feel saddened by this that we apply different set of rules for different people..and what cant be seen by eyes is often taken for granted to be a lie.

We deny ourselves and often laugh at ourselves thinking that it'll save us from the trouble/pain...as if we are impotent..but I strongly feel its because we do not have a set path or pattern to follow..that we lose ourselves and our identity and instead of taking pride in who we are..we end up feeling guilty.

For anyone in here who has said that he or she does not have a gift..I do not believe them..I think they have a gift in them...its just might be something entirely different and new that we are not aware of..or maybe it isint being recognized as a gift by the society..

and who the hell decides whats to be called as a gift and what not to be?

I was laughed at by the Docs when I told them about what I felt to be my gifts..and it hurt me badly because however poor or nonexisting it might seem to them..they were precious to me..and to deny them meant hurting my dignity..

I think this is my first post where I have written so outwardly..bringing out what I really feel inside..without feeling guitly or ashemed of..so this feels great..

And its a Great thread..to write in.

Thanks,

Nachi

My mother used to say that God would punish me, for not using my talents.
What really frustrated my mother, is i could do anything i touched. When i was 5 yrs old my mom bought me a little plastic sewing machine, the same day i had made her the apron that they were showing. Never touched it again. Same thing for all my interests, i have multiple arts, woodcrafts, and the list of things goes on that are at different level of finishing. It seems i lose interest when i know how its done and i know i can make it whenever i want.

Digitl who is not sure why, but still as fun meanwhile!!

Hi Nachi,

I really loved what you wrote, you write so beautifly. See i wish i had the gift to put down in words what is in my head. I would probably be a billionaire (sigh).
But for now i cant so i will copy and pace the answer of a test that i have passed months ago. I dont remember where i find it. But it really explains how i feel inside about having a special gift about life. I always thought i could perceive or sense things that are not tangable, like energies in people or even places. The more i read in the forum and the more i see that the result of my test could really go with a lot of people with add or adhd.

Digitl :) This test is 95% accurate about who i am.

From infancy, purely emotional Empaths intuit the world around them.
They feel so intensely
about everything others can be confused by the depth and range of their
expression—from
uncontrollable laughter to inconsolable tears; sometimes both at once.
Empaths respond quickly
and personally to all and environment. For others it can be
disconcerting but emotionality is
this personality, and the throne upon which their one-of-a-kind
intellect sits.
When you know answers but can't explain how, cannibalistic self-doubt
can prey on confidence.
They doubt intuition and try to be 'logicals' instead, which for these
emotion-intellects is
like swimming against their own nature.
Linear, step-by-step thinking must be taught to Empaths. In school,
gold stars of former glory
grades often turn into 'good grief' by junior high. This is usually
when their academic
confidence plummets. Doubt can clip their potential's wings before they
even attempt flight and
before they test their unique intellectual superiority. These
individuals often do not know
they are born to do one thing better than any other—because of and
based solely on, their birth
gift.
Ranked among the most powerful, Empaths are endowed with incredible
gifts: emotion-acuity and intellect second to none. These innate skills
and abilities are necessary as their purpose and message can alter man,
world, and future, upon delivery.
Empaths are purely emotional beings. As children, when teased and/or
taunted for being 'sissy,' Empaths begin to mask their feelings. When
they begin to speak, they may mask thoughts as well. Before they talked,
they knew more or less what others were thinking and wanting, and often
responded before words were spoken. When they learn to speak, they also
learn what 'good,' 'bad,' and 'worst' feels like. Good is when others
like what they say; bad is when they don't; and worst is when others get
angry. Why do they get this sure answer inside but when they act
accordingly, get mixed and unexpected responses—from happy love to angry
hate? It shakes their faith in their ability to understand, when loved and
trusted others tell them with words what they 'feel' is not right.

xxxxxxx
Visionarys tend to be noticed. Something more than attractiveness
emanates; something tangible yet elusive draws others' attention. In social
situations, they often adopt an aloof persona out of innate shyness
often needing time to feel a certain level of comfort before removing
their don't-approach masks. Once they do, the reason for reluctance becomes
clear. Few are as passionate about people, about life, about everything
as Visionarys. Their social mask allows them to choose who, what,
where, and when to divest and invest self. They usually have enormous
energy, an enveloping, palpitating presence that resonates and vibrates
visibly. Many are innervated in their charismatic presence though equally as
many can be intimidated by the confidence they exude. If others are
uncomfortable around Visionarys there's a reason. These intuitives use
their extraordinary emotional-sensors to feel the emotional temperature of
others before exchanging names and particulars. So attuned to voice
inflection, intonation, and body energy, they can determine friendships in
advance of "Hello." Interestingly, when two Visionary 'strangers' meet,
a sense of déja vu is experienced or sexual sparks are ignited.
Intuition may be their gift but communication unwraps it. Visionarys
lead the world with words. And while they have the ability to charm birds
out of trees when pleased, their equal fame is for being the most
difficult upright walkers when not. Mates (and all close relations) must be
able to travel emotionally and intellectually to places not yet
explored or experienced. That's how and where Visionarys go

Digitl Is your Sunsign Gemini? Just curious to know..

Sun sign meaning like regular horoscope i am a virgo and my ascendant sign is Sagitarrius.

Digitl who wants to know yours now ? :D

Hi My sunsign is Virgo as well.

I loved to read the result of your test and like you said it fits us ADDers quiet well..

As Empaths we have an important role to play in this world..however insignificiant it might feel to the world.

Nachi

My special talent is classified information!!

You mean to classify info, or it's classified info and you'll have to kill me if you tell me kinda thing?

Digitl hides behind a tree:eek: just in case!!

I'm told my talent lies in writing. I was going to major in writing (actually, I did at first), but then I dropped out, and had a baby, and then it came down to what made sense. Freelance writing does not make sense when dealing with a household budget and supporting a child.

So we figure I'll go through the Master's of Social Work program, become a therapist, and write in my spare time. And then when I sell my first manuscript, and it makes the bestseller list, we'll move to a desolate, private part of the world and live out our days unburdened by society. :)

Chrys

Love your sense of houmour casper + Digitl:-)

Nachi

My most special talent I think would be understanding others. When I talk to soemone I can know what they are thinking, I can seem to "know" a person before ever haveing the chance to learn about them, and I can just "feel" their feelings too. A friend can walk in a room and I will know how they are feeling that day before they even get out of the doorway. It boggles their minds, and my own. I love it. I just have that special touch with people.

So everyone's special talent is the same thing so far: organizing information and recognizing special patterns in it, whether it's emotional, analytical, or floats out in space somewhere…

So everyone's special talent is the same thing so far: organizing information and recognizing special patterns in it, whether it's emotional, analytical, or floats out in space somewhere…
OMG! You are a total genius! And it's so funny because I just posted on a different thread all about why I play matching games to organize and feel a sense of accomplishment, and because my mind can completely sink into organizing and distributing (which is how we write stories, songs, and poetry too). When I'm playing a matching game or writing I can concentrate on only that. My mind can lay back and sleep, only time it can really do that. Even when I'm sleeping it dreams.
Very interesting to me the number of times writing was listed as a skill.

A brief synopsis of my special talents

1) An unusually retentive proverbial memory that helps me to retain articles verbatim for years on one reading. Used this memory capacity to learn German in a single day, memorise the first 100 logarithms to 10 decimal places each in 2 days, committed the whole of Les Miserables and The Phantom of the Opera word for word to memory et cetera (all without the use of mnemonics of course). Cyclopedic compilation of noesis as a result. Nimiety of xenoglosslela for foreign languages, ergo. Can watch a movie once only and recall 80% of the movie lines correctly.
2) A superhuman talent to mentally compute dactylomegaly - huge numbers. Within minutes, I can mentally square 4533225 and I can decipher arithmograms at sight. Calculating ability meets not antiperistasis even when using binary, quinery, senery bases und so weither.
3) A deipotent and unipotent gift to visualize mentally the most complex geometrodynamic objects - I can easily play a game of three dimensional chess in my head and recall every move of it after the game (I can play 4D or 5D chess in my head too). Can mentally solve polydimensional mathematical problems ultrageously.
4) Unsurmountable and unsurpassable ability to analyze things logically and philosophically. Logical paradoxes are my specialty.
__________________________________________________ ________


LoL just joking :D
... I dont have such talents unless i am really someone else ...
the only thing im good at is at football.
i will never succeed in anything else due to my low iq of 82 :(

Smallchild2002,

I was confused, tickled, and then saddened as I read your post.
I'd like to say that you are harder on yourself than the rest of us, we could have listed our failures too. Football is a great talent! And so is humor, which you have displayed above. :D Don't let an 82 IQ test dictate what you're capable of. Many don't believe in them anyway. And sweetie....would you happen to have ADD? ;) Because those tests aren't made to make allowances for our differences. So throw that number out of your head, and just live your life happily and do what you want!

So everyone's special talent is the same thing so far: organizing information and recognizing special patterns in it, whether it's emotional, analytical, or floats out in space somewhere…
That what it boils down to.
I have problems getting behind simple cause and effect relations, but I have a very good intuition on more complex relations.
At least thats how I explained it to myself until a year ago :)

Special talents.... HMMMM? E-girl seems to think I have some, but I am not sure I'd define them as "special".

I am a pretty good writer, for the simple reason that I find expressing myself on paper to be easier than verbally. Probably because it gives me time to organize the chaos of conflicting, but related ideas in my head, and then forces me to place them in a linear, coherent, and prioritized order on paper. Works for me. :-)

I was a pretty darn good soccer player if I do say so myself. Might even have been good enough to play pro, never did find out.

Lastly, I am pretty good with people for the most part. Not sure why, but I am. Anyway that's about all I can think of, except for a weird memory and I don't think that counts as a talent.

My most special talent I think would be understanding others. When I talk to soemone I can know what they are thinking, I can seem to "know" a person before ever haveing the chance to learn about them, and I can just "feel" their feelings too. A friend can walk in a room and I will know how they are feeling that day before they even get out of the doorway. It boggles their minds, and my own. I love it. I just have that special touch with people.
very similar. i can usually pick up on tones, feelings, emotions. if someone is in a bad mood, i sometimes do the same. i can bark right back being a bit moody.

What a fun thread!


My special talent is that I think in pictures,colors, patterns, shapes etc. and am learning to get whats in my head out in art. I have been playing with painting, collages, drawing, pastels etc. for the last year or so. I used to draw as a kid but then life got in the way and I did not do much with art. I am now finding what a great outlet it is for me. For now, and maybe always it will just be something I love to do. It is nice though when others begin to notice and appreciate a talent that is hard for us to see in ourselves.

I have noticed that most of us here on this thread's talents lie in expressing ourselves in some way. I have felt most of my life a frustration with getting what is inside of me out. I never really knew this until I began to experiment with art and its like I opened up a pressure valve. Like most ADDers I am in constant 'brainstorm' mode and have more ideas that I know what to do with. My gift/curse is creativity expressed in lots of diffferent ways. I can rarely do the same thing twice. I have enjoyed reading these posts though because at 43 I am newly dx'd and feeling a little inferior because what I thought was something that was just 'me' is now a disorder. I am trying to look at it differently and this thread helps.

I know you didn't ask for my weakness but I am learning that I must be 99.9% visual and 1% auditory. I have a huge problems processing anything thru sound. I am either super sensitive to it or I block it out and don't hear it.

I think I will go express myself now :)

To answer the question is my talent classifed info, yes, it is. I feel I can not tell u in good faith without u laughing at me to no end!

I too am hiding, but behind my computer screen!!!

Casper,
It's too bad that you can't open all the way up here. It's terribly freeing and helpful to be fully accepted by this group of like people. :)

I am amazed by the results of this thread. Fly Away, you felt special before your dx, but not after - I felt terribly flawed before my recent dx, but now I'm learning that those 'flaws' of mine can actually be assets.
I'd LOVE to see an art and creative writing/poetry contest for ADDers, can you imagine the beautiful and amazing fallout that would bring??
If I could send you all a square of fabric to decorate any way you wanted and then sewed them all together into a quilt, it would be the most amazing quilt ever.

Listen Dude, You cannot, i repeat you cannot give pieces of information like that and let us stay on our apetite. Well my apetite anyways LOL!! Jeez i will get the big guns if i have 2. Watch it bud!!

Digitl who promisses not to laugh, if i do i will go to hell...Wait Wait i'm already there LOL but i still wont laugh. I will tell you a special funny talent i have if you tell me yours :D

lessee, I can do simultaneous interpretation from English to Japanese, and Japanese to English.

I also have this party trick that for some reason impresses me more than anyone else (g). I can write with both left and right hands at the same time, and what I write with my left hand comes out as a mirror image of what I'm writing with the right. I can do this in both English and Japanese.

First time I did that, I thought, wow, I must be some kinda genius! But no one else gets the huge kick out of it that I do. Boohoo.

HereKitty,

I am TOTALLY impressed with your mirror image writing! I mean REALLY! If I could do that I would tell E-V-E-R-Y-O-N-E I meet! No kidding!!
I have no parlor trick abilities. I'd LOVE to have one. You are lucky.
When I was in grade school a boy taught me how to jiggle my eyeballs really really fast. I can't see myself do it because I'm blind while I'm doing it, it gives me a horrible headache, and no one was EVER impressed by it. Sigh! But hey, your mirror writing is mega cool. Did you have to learn it or were you just able to do it?

I'm good at finding relationships between seemingly unrelated ideas and causes. In other words I'm a theorist, which makes me good in math and science.

As has been said, I'm good at bringing the big picture together into a simple formula. I'm always thinking about how it all fits together. I have a drive to put everything together and explain it simply. I'm a good teacher.

I think I may have learned this skill because everything was so boring to me as a child, and connecting everything together activated my prefrontal cortex. I have a passion for ideas. I guess my biggest passion is to simplify everything down into a single, simple, beautiful idea.

Why is that? I've often thought of ADD as being "scattered," the feeling of being 1000 different places at once. You can't feel secure or whole when you are living apart from you soul. I think I'm seeking to be whole, secure and valuable. Maybe I shall find them, in my single, simple beautiful Idea.

abre los ojos,

Once I read an article about a man's theory that there are several different 'types' of people; those who thrive in the modern world chaos because they can make connections between everything, see the relationships between it all - nature, animals, emotions, societys, etc. - and those who can don't do as well because it takes them longer to see those connections, then those who never do and are very out of place and bewildered in the modern world. He used this as an example: If a person ate an orange and 3 days later broke out in hives, some people would make the connection immediately, some would have to eat oranges several times to make the connection, some it would take most of their lives before they saw it, and others never would. He said that the ones that don't see connections easily are the ones that look to the mystical for explanations - superstitions, religions, fortune tellers, etc. Because none of it makes sense to them. Sounds like you're one of the ones that thrive in this chaotic modern world. I am one of those that never make the connections. I don't have the eyes to see. I have future shock. You have the eyes to see. It must be beautiful...

I have to admit I like to find relationships in things too. I am very into the sciences, and obviously the life sciences are my favorite... I'm also a big technology fan though, and being a "generalist" I have the advantage of being aware of developments all over the field. I like to try to mix and match new technologies, some of which are, at first, no more than curiousities of physics and material sciences (like aerogels once were) and find practical uses for such things to improve existing products or even new ones. It's just a layman's exercise and I am no scientist but it's a lot of fun and down right eerie when something you entertain as an idea actually comes to pass.

I think E-girl way underestimates her writing skills. I would love if she'd share some of her poetry in the creative writing section. It's beautiful, and I have been honored that she has shared some of it with me.

I've been considering putting a poem in the writing section here E-boy....I might, or I might chicken out. bok! We'll just have to wait and see! LOL

Herekitty, I foudn that so awsome that you could write with both hands at the smae time so I gave it a short...I need to improve my left handed writting a bit as Im more right handed, but I could do it too! Its fun! I can very easily write mirror images as well, i love to write backwards I don't know why. I thought everyone could do that, can't they?

My talents are:

1) I have an insuperable xenoglosslia of a ubercity of lingos - English, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Danish, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Latin, Malay, French etc ... can learn a new language with 1000 words overnight parce que I'm a supergenius.
2) An unmatched Stanford Binet IQ score of 176 (1 in a million).
3) An extremely retentive memory - I can memorize 1000 words and recite them verbatim ad unguem overnight and recall them perfectly months later.
4) Can multiply two 9 digit numbers in my head mentally, much faster than you hebetudinous and asinine dunces (Kidding). In addition, I have memorized all squares from 1 to 500 and all logarithms from 1 to 200 to 9 decimal places each. I can also recite them backwards. Knows 50 x 50 multiplication table.
5) Indomitable and inexsuperable visualization skills - I can easily visualize the most esoteric spatial problems: like the mutual intersection of 3 homologous cubes to yield the greatest number of bounded volumes. I can play a game of 3 or 4 dimensional chess and recall all moves perfectly after the game - even a month after the game. Finally, I can mentally design a building or electronic circuit for Artificial Intelligence from sketch without missing any details: That is the pulchritude of my memory capacity.
6) The paragon of poiesis - I have a creativity at its zenith. I am capable of generating ideas at an incredible rate, much faster than you all obviously.
7) Logoleptic logodaedalus - I am a logophila with a working vocabulary of close to 20,000 words - 3 x that of the average layman.
8) Memory capacity - Short term memory capacity of 26 chunks of information (digit span 26). Photographic long term memory. Need I expatiate more on this?
9) Spirtual and entelechy - my sapience and temerity in questioning the rhetorical and steoreotypical nature of majoritarian thinking has lead to me to find the ultimate purpose in life. Of course, only those who are as intelligent as me can find that argentiferous cornucopia in the labyrinth of omphaloskepsis.
10) Incredible powers of intellectual acumen - I can solve mathematical and probability problems faster as fast as John von Neumann.

That's me - the sagacious savant of noesis. I am stating the veritable truth - that I am most conspicuously, the most doctiloquent and intelligent (in terms of not just IQ but many other areas as well) person in this forum. Yup I am the alter ego of the mobigerous ... er nefarious Lucifer of ampollosity - Avistar_sg - the brighest person in this entire forum.

Smallchild2002; I can relate, I'm to art as you are to math. I guess that's the best to discribe it. Can't spell woth crap but give me anything to work with and in a few minites I can have the technic down and after a project know what the medium is capable of. Gold Leaf acid editch, is a good technic, matching colors with any medium, I also can recall a landscape and reproduce it with pen&ink or pencil, I prefer P&I. Give me a chip carving knife and a picture of what you want and if I am drawn to it I can reproduce it. Same with using files on ivory or horn or making a flint lock from scratch. Printmaking, scrimshaw, land scape painting, water color abstract or realistic, I prefer realisium.
. I also have a keen woodsman awaireness which gives me good "Hunting" experences.

Special skills ? I get ideas, lots of ideas. Too many to sort out and make workable, or make money. Even now that i know i'm ADD i'll try and sort out the flaws before blurting it out but that dosen't seem to help much. The other side of this is that i can see the whole concept, (sometimes in a flash) but am unable to describe it to other linear thinkers because they need to see it in a step by step fashion.

If we were talking about special curses I'd have much more to say.

*cough*


My talents are:

1) I have an insuperable xenoglosslia of a ubercity of lingos - English, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Danish, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Latin, Malay, French etc ... can learn a new language with 1000 words overnight parce que I'm a supergenius.
2) An unmatched Stanford Binet IQ score of 176 (1 in a million).
3) An extremely retentive memory - I can memorize 1000 words and recite them verbatim ad unguem overnight and recall them perfectly months later.
4) Can multiply two 9 digit numbers in my head mentally, much faster than you hebetudinous and asinine dunces (Kidding). In addition, I have memorized all squares from 1 to 500 and all logarithms from 1 to 200 to 9 decimal places each. I can also recite them backwards. Knows 50 x 50 multiplication table.
5) Indomitable and inexsuperable visualization skills - I can easily visualize the most esoteric spatial problems: like the mutual intersection of 3 homologous cubes to yield the greatest number of bounded volumes. I can play a game of 3 or 4 dimensional chess and recall all moves perfectly after the game - even a month after the game. Finally, I can mentally design a building or electronic circuit for Artificial Intelligence from sketch without missing any details: That is the pulchritude of my memory capacity.
6) The paragon of poiesis - I have a creativity at its zenith. I am capable of generating ideas at an incredible rate, much faster than you all obviously.
7) Logoleptic logodaedalus - I am a logophila with a working vocabulary of close to 20,000 words - 3 x that of the average layman.
8) Memory capacity - Short term memory capacity of 26 chunks of information (digit span 26). Photographic long term memory. Need I expatiate more on this?
9) Spirtual and entelechy - my sapience and temerity in questioning the rhetorical and steoreotypical nature of majoritarian thinking has lead to me to find the ultimate purpose in life. Of course, only those who are as intelligent as me can find that argentiferous cornucopia in the labyrinth of omphaloskepsis.
10) Incredible powers of intellectual acumen - I can solve mathematical and probability problems faster as fast as John von Neumann.

That's me - the sagacious savant of noesis. I am stating the veritable truth - that I am most conspicuously, the most doctiloquent and intelligent (in terms of not just IQ but many other areas as well) person in this forum. Yup I am the alter ego of the mobigerous ... er nefarious Lucifer of ampollosity - Avistar_sg - the brighest person in this entire forum.

I have a talent for animal training - mostly dogs and in my younger days, horses. It's a time when I focus well (not so much hyperfocus as just really tuned into the dog, myself and our interaction with each other).

My other talent IS hyperfocusing but like so many of us, it is offset by that inability to focus when we're not so interested in something. Yes, when its BORING!

I can't remember the book I read this in, but it went something like: I'm not inattentive, you're just boring":-)

I have a few talents. I seem to be able to generate a wealth of ideas, at will. It is useful at work.
I am very good with all things electronic. I always have been. I enjoy building things electronic from scratch.

I seem to know how things ought to work. I am especially good with computing machines.
I play a guitar a little. (used to play a lot). I write poetry, I even write a few songs.
I'm not a practical person. I'm bit of a dreamer, not pragmatic, but more emotional.
I'm sometimes incredibly empathic.
I've written published works in engineering and science. I take an experimental approach to problem solving. It is useful , so far.

I can be glib, lighthearted, then decide to be moody and serious. I can be dognamtic, and cling to my personal vaues even if it hurts me. I can be cryptic, and hard to "read" sometimes. I don't mean to be that way, but I'm ADD, so what do you expect ?

Me :D

Since this is a family forum i will keep it clean :rolleyes: :p :)

My special talent are making people laugh, i seem to feel right away what makes someone laugh.
My other talent is that i am able to do whatever i put my mind 2 in a matter of minutes. I see an image in a magazine and i can reproduce it, mostly arts and craft stuff .
I am very talented at reading other people

That's it for now :)

Hmm. I like to make stuff. When that gets boring I like to break stuff.
When that gets boring I go hunting.

When that gets boring - I'll punch out.

:)

motorbrain, The day after I married my wife 23 years ago, I told here that I would have to pull back on the amount of art I do. She asked why and I told her that we would be devoriced in 3 years if I didn't.

I took up hunting. After not hunting for 9 years.

Herekitty, I foudn that so awsome that you could write with both hands at the smae time so I gave it a short...I need to improve my left handed writting a bit as Im more right handed, but I could do it too! Its fun! I can very easily write mirror images as well, i love to write backwards I don't know why. I thought everyone could do that, can't they?
I tried this too and was able to do it. I never knew!

motorbrain, The day after I married my wife 23 years ago, I told here that I would have to pull back on the amount of art I do. She asked why and I told her that we would be devoriced in 3 years if I didn't.

I took up hunting. After not hunting for 9 years.


Dave,
You and I sound a lot alike. I'm doing marketing as it's the only way to make enough money to live in the SF bay area. But if you boiled me down I would just be an artist/cartoonist/illustrator/writer.

I hunt for the same reasons. I could lose myself in my art very easily at the cost of family. So I check out and exhaust whatever part of me drives hunting and art. Keeps me sane!

MB

Herekitty, I foudn that so awsome that you could write with both hands at the smae time so I gave it a short...I need to improve my left handed writting a bit as Im more right handed, but I could do it too! Its fun! I can very easily write mirror images as well, i love to write backwards I don't know why. I thought everyone could do that, can't they?


LOL! That funny! I should try that. I learned to read upside down. When I was a kid my sisters wouldn't let me read the paper with them - so I would sit across the table and learned to read that way.

I bet I can write upside down but not backwards - although my son can write backwards. That punk! :p

That's me - the sagacious savant of noesis. I am stating the veritable truth - that I am most conspicuously, the most doctiloquent and intelligent (in terms of not just IQ but many other areas as well) person in this forum. Yup I am the alter ego of the mobigerous ... er nefarious Lucifer of ampollosity - Avistar_sg - the brighest person in this entire forum.

And flexible too, I mean to pat yourself on the back so often and not pull a muscle I am impressed. :D

I have found a new talent. My husband calls it Dog Whispering lmbo.

We got a new chocolate lab from a friend of my husbands. A friend who neglected to tell us that the dog had not had his shots and that he was ill. After having a new puppy in the house (pooping and peeing on everything) and my family (except me) getting attached to this dog, he starts vomiting and stops eating.

Doug took him to the vet and the dog was dx'd with parvo and worms (disgusting I know) I got a call from Koda asking me what it meant when the vet said we'd have some difficult decisions to make in the future; I told him it meant we may have to put the dog down after hearing his cries and him begging me not to I told him we would try to save him for two days but I refused to let the animal suffer.

So, the dog lasted for two days not eating or drinking. By the third and fourth day I had to carry the dumb thing outside to use the bathroom and I started forcing fluids with an old medicine dropper every 5 minutes I'd give him a dropper full of Pedialyte and then carry the stupid animal outside. The vet called to see what we wanted to do on the fifth day and I decided that the stupid big brown eyed dog could have one more day since he didn't seem to be suffering horribly. So, for the next 24 hours I fed that big brown eyed, pouty faced, grateful stupid dog with a spoon (yes a spoon) he wouldn'te eat any other way and gave him fluid thru the dropper, carried him outside and back in.

On the morning of the sixth day I fell into bed and told Doug take care of your stupid dog and passed out. I woke up about 5 hours later to a puppy leaping onto the bed and licking my face.

Anyways, dog is going to live, no real lasting effects and he's not so stupid or dumb and has the sweetest chocolate brown eyes and he follows me everywere I go and when I tell him to sit and be a good boy he listens to me and he hasn't messed in the house and I guess its ok if he sleeps in the bed with me and sits by me on the couch if he wants to.

Stupid dog knew how to win me over is all....he knew all along I couldn't resist a sick animal.

SamllChild has my vote for the most talented in the good.

Motorbrain, I did a simester in San Fran, back in 86 and 89. For faux finishes. Great area. Open party time there. But I would die if I had to lie their, I hunt 15 minites from my shop and 15 minites from my home.
>I hunt by the moon fase which enables me to pic the best time to hunt. Been doing this for 6 years now. If you haven't tried it check out the site I linked up for you. Put you area in and if you don't understand it use PM and I'll explain it
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneDay.html

Futs you are a hopeless romanic LOL , to bad the stupid brown eye dog can't talk he would probably have you in tears. Nice job on mothing him BTW.

Futs you are a hopeless romanic LOL , to bad the stupid brown eye dog can't talk he would probably have you in tears. Nice job on mothing him BTW.

Nah Koda is just heck on wheels when he's mourning a pet. :p