Weird Abilities And St00f.

[Madame Catfish]

I can see movement in a way other people cannot.
When I see a stain on the porch, for instance, I know exactly what direction the spilled soda was coming from, what angle, how fast it was moving, have a feel for the size of the cup, etc. It's like I can rewind it. See the soda spill. I know the angle and the speed and the weight, but not with numbers. I see it. If I need the angle, I hold a protractor up to what I can see in my head. I'm not determining the angle of impact mathematically, but instinctually somehow. I can just piece the information together unconsciously, I guess, because I've tried experiments and tested myself to confirm that I am correct in my impressions.
Whenever I went through my bloodstain pattern analysis textbook, I knew the angle of impact and type of injury without having to learn it. I just know when a stain is from blunt force because I can see it fall and if it falls thickly it has to be from something blunt. I just know it is from a gunshot because I can see how the tiny droplets scatter from the speed of the gunshot and give that speckled look.
I can manipulate three dimensional objects in my head like this and find it very easy to remember spatial things.

I think I'd make a great bloodstain pattern analyst and crime scene reconstructor because of this, but my parents think that I should go into linguistics instead because I am not good at abstract mathematics.

I am good at linguistics though. As of now I am fifteen and have taught myself five languages (going on six). For a challenge I taught myself a language in one week (Yucatec) and was able to carry on a conversation in it the following Sunday. Like the movement thing, I think the reason that I have a knack for languages is that the patterns produce images in my mind and I can see a language visually- how it flows and where it is heading.

Because I can visualise something like language, it has always confused me that I cannot process abstract algebraic math. I can see a triangle in my head given the proportions, but can only recognise the proportions rather than the numbers associated with them. Math is the language of numbers, but it is hard to learn that language when it is uncertain as to what the words and grammar are representing in the first place. Learning the Maya word for cat is easy: a cat is easily definable. Defining the number three isn't as easy. The language of mathematics itself is abstract rather than an abstract representation of a reality, as true languages are. It's like math just interrupts the movement, the pictures I see, get all caught in static- the numbers are human inventions, ideas, whereas cats really exist. Three is just a human way of expressing how many cats there are rather than being a true quality the cats have, like being yellow or being hungry.
Sorry for the random rant. I have plenty of those.

On a totally unrelated note, I also have a freakishly sensitive nose and good hearing.

All of the above is probably a result of autism in one way or another, which is why I'm likely one of those annoying "autistic and proud" types. XD

 

[Aspieistj]

Does anyone else notice when someone says something is different TO another thing , rather than different FROM? I drive myself crazy with little differences in English that almost no one else ever notices. Another one: Try AND get instead of try TO get. Try AND means that success is expected while try TO indicates it might not be accomplished. Both oddities I mention here are very American/ British differences. It is very much part of my Aspie makeup to immediately notice and inwardly cringe when this occurs, and YES---I know very few other people care at all which words are used. I simply can't help noticing. It is exactly like hearing a musical tone that is slightly sharp or flat. My brain latches on to this kind of small variance and immediately makes me feel irritated. Even more disturbing is the fact that I understand MOST people don't notice, and if they do, they don't give a damn. I sincerely wish I were less perceptive of these small differences --please note that I refrained from calling them mistakes.

 

[tree]

Does anyone else notice when someone says something is different TO another thing , rather than different FROM? I drive myself crazy with little differences in English that almost no one else ever notices. Another one: Try AND get instead of try TO get. Try AND means that success is expected while try TO indicates it might not be accomplished. Both oddities I mention here are very American/ British differences. It is very much part of my Aspie makeup to immediately notice and inwardly cringe when this occurs, and YES---I know very few other people care at all which words are used. I simply can't help noticing. It is exactly like hearing a musical tone that is slightly sharp or flat. My brain latches on to this kind of small variance and immediately makes me feel irritated. Even more disturbing is the fact that I understand MOST people don't notice, and if they do, they don't give a damn. I sincerely wish I were less perceptive of these small differences --please note that I refrained from calling them mistakes.

Absolutely, yes, I notice "different to" & "try and."
Different to----I just don't get that. How can the stance be toward the disjunction?
Try and-----
If you urge someone to 'try and get' that sounds, to me, that you would be saying:
"try" + "get," two separate actions. "Try to get" would mean "to attempt to attain."

Yes. Like an off note. Ping. Twang. Blop.

 

[Beverly]

Aspieistj, I also latch on to American vs British differences in phrasing. I've got a few British friends and, several UK residents I work with on occasion. I was also the only American in an otherwise all UK residents band for a time so, I'm keen to the differences. [I also tend to mix British and American English which, I suspect, is annoying to some people.]

Being a musician, I notice every nuance and mistake when a piece of music is performed and, some mistakes infuriate me. I am more forgiving of live performances because I know that the artists do not have the technology performing live that we do in the recording studio. Do you know there is a machine we can simply tell which note we were trying to hit at any time point in a recording and, the machine will correct the recording without us having to re-record the segment? There is so, there is no excuse for anything less than perfection in recorded music other than a lazy technician, and that infuriates me.

 

[qwerty]

LOL I am sooo guilty of the poor english usage thing.

I do have a weirdly accurate ability to visualise an object
and spatially manipulate it without a second thought,
like having a scanned 3d model.

I feel sound as a physical sensation which although very
painful at times, is like having a stash of the best drug
in the world when listening to beautiful musical arrangements.

 

[Pondering]

I can read dogs and communicate with them without them or me making a sound. I can come up with super specific analogies on the spot. I can make sense of almost any alalogy before it has been explained. I can come up with wild yet cohesive storylines by just looking at something. I am hyposensitive to heat so it takes longer for me to feel pain when cooking (only by half a second longer than it should). I can draw a realistic face portraits without using a ruler for proportions or tracing (just looking at an image for reference). I can turn off my emotions sometimes though I cannot turn them on. I can remember small details for a very, very long time. I'm good at remembering images and names. I can forget memories if I don't want them. I can write music even though I cannot read it or play it. I am good at learning new languages and accents. I can immitate characters and people very well. I can learn massive amounts of interesting material quickly as long as it is interesting. I learn new skills easily. I act very well. I have a very balanced set of logic/reasoning and emotion. I have laser focus when concentrating. I have a strong artistic eye. I can recognize faces very easily and quickly; I never forget a face. I am very good at coming up with new abstract ideas and understanding them. I can see the same thing from many point of views. I can write poetry basically about anything and make it elegant. I can come up with metaphors, similies, and hyperboles easily. I am good with rhyming words. I also have a knack for deductive reasoning. I am neither pessimistic nor optomistic; I am reasistic. I am good at quitting or starting obsessions, hobbies, and interests. I have a good sense and recollection of smell. I remember dialogue easily. I get different vibes from everything. I am best at handling and dealing with emotional pain, difficulties, and conflicts. I have many unnecessary and random skills.