Do you have a weird talent?

[Suzette]

@NDRI envy your talent!

 

[Kayla55]

When I'm outdoors, my eyes scan the ground and rather than seeing weeds, my mind instantly catalogues plants into food, medicine, or toxic.

For instance: "dock- edible, and medicinal for liver and endocrine detox. foxglove- toxic, synthesized into heart medicine, but in its natural form, it will stop your heart. kinnickinnick- also known as uva ursi or bearberry- medicinal for the urinary tract, bile ducts, source of vitamin c. Edible, but not pleasant to eat". And other things like that.

I don't do it at will, it's sort of subconscious. And it's constant, like a little encyclopedia, a running commentary within my mind of food and medicine, everywhere.

I've heard that wild lettuce was old pain killer, perhaps it's what I should try.
I found many natural remedies didn't help either like tea-tree it wasn't cure for everything, so say vinegar is better for head-lice treatment. Maybe just that it seemed ineffective due to using wrong herbs.
Do you have any suggestions on how to prepare dried wild lettuce to store as pain-killer?

 

[MROSS]

I have an amazing memory. I can remember many trivial things about popular music (dates, group member names, songwriters, record labels, etc.) – even about singers and groups whose music I’ve never even owned. Once I learn a song I never forget it (even if I’d like to). When I was a child I’d remember not only the words to all the songs on my records, but also the dialogue. If I was to play a game of Name
That Tune where they played songs from the 1960’s through the 1980’s, I could probably name the song after only a few seconds. I’m also a whiz at the board game Encore, which many people I know think is too hard.

As a child, I could also remember things on
TV. With several repetitions, I could recite scenes on TV by heart verbatim.

Oh yes, long-term memories from decades ago.

Long-term memory abilities are common with the Autism Spectrum.