What is your gift?

[Aspychata]

We seem to walk among the shadows sometimes, we are afraid to reveal ourselves, what gift do you cherish about yourself?

 

[Rachie]

We seem to walk among the shadows sometimes, we are afraid to reveal ourselves, what gift do you cherish about yourself?

Do you plan to share yours, some might say you should go first...
I cannot reply now but will think over it today.
I would like to see some personal no bars held accounts in this thread.

 

[Aspychata]

l like to help others find their truth, sometimes this is a difficult path

 

[AprilR]

Letting people be themselves around me, at least hopefully. I want to be someone whom people feel safe with.

 

[Cryptid]

Seeing the "Big Picture" in the details.

 

[Tired]

My high empathy is as much a gift as it is a curse.

 

[Jumpinbare]

My 'tellugence'!

 

[Misty Avich]

Well I prided myself with having compassion and empathy. I'm also good at problem solving. And I can write memoirs about my life because I have a very good autobiographical memory.

 

[Outdated]

I thought I was everybody's gift.

My ability to learn and my ability to retain what I learn.

 

[Neonatal RRT]

There was a time in my youth when it was obvious that I was operating on a higher intellect than others. Always labeled as "the smart kid" in class, it became rather isolating. My response to that, in order to fit in with the cool kids in school was to get into athletics, and my internal drive to be the best made me the strongest kid in the weight room at school. I had respect from the other kids and I never was bullied. Of course, as a teenager, this lead to being a bit of an arrogant ass. Sure, I had all sorts of self-confidence, but I think I took it far enough, that again, it became rather isolating.

As a young adult working at the hospital, I quickly became one of the most knowledgable people in our respiratory care department and had the respect of all the people around me. I was a standout. Again, self-confidence and arrogance made things isolating. I still competed in weightlifting during my free time, and had broken 11 national records. I was at that sort of level, not your average "gym rat". I had this persona that I was a force, both physically and mentally, to the point of intimidating others. My annual peer reviews would repeatedly mention this despite my efforts of trying to be as pleasant, polite, and respectful to others.

I now know, after studying the work of Dunning and Kruger (of the Dunning-Kruger phenomenon) that I didn't know as much as I thought I did early on. I made a lot of mistakes. No big ones, but certainly a barrage of little ones along the way. Moments of clarity dashed away in an instant, and it would repeatedly happen over the years.

With time and a developed wisdom, I have become more humble. I am not sure I would go so far as saying that I "cherish" any gifts that I have, because it would seem there is always that "double-edged sword" with me. For every specific thing that I sense that I naturally do better than most people, I can think of another that they do better than I. For every new bit of knowledge I acquire, it seems I only have more questions. From what I understand, according to others, is that I have a high degree of patience with people who desire to learn. I love sharing my knowledge with others. I know what I know, however, I know what I don't know, and I will openly admit that. I will also admit that I do not like having as many questions as I do about my world, and as a result, I tend to spend a lot of time actively learning on a wide variety of topics. My mind is a storm of questions and tends to be rather insatiable with regards to learning everything I can. My intellectual curiosity is both a blessing and a curse.

 

[velociraptor]

We seem to walk among the shadows sometimes, we are afraid to reveal ourselves, what gift do you cherish about yourself?

My gift -- and purpose -- is to save the beauty in this moment for the ones that follow.

 

[Rachie]

It is kind of hard for me to write about myself.

I have always liked writing although it is always been non fiction (factual). I have issues around grammar and language, but still it is was often recognised growing up and in the articles I have written that I can write well. I couldn't do anything professionally with it though. I like to write. I have to books and hide them at home to try and express myself as I struggled verbally a lot. One of my old school friends is a writer and professional and gave up her time to edit for me as believed in the importance of what I was writing for my awareness article for my co condition. I couldn't get a professional to edit to that extent all the time.

I like to try to be humerous to myself when I can and some people like my consultant for one of my co issues have said that they can find my sense of humor unique. I don't get normal jokes or others, but I can understand mine and sometimes make some people cause may be my style is not usually lets say.

I would say my sensory is mainly a gift, It was tested at moderate but sometimes is level 3 I would imagine in some areas. Why I am writing about this because as children in primary school me and one of my brothers were hypersensitive to lets say spooky things that we had in the house and saw them with our own eyes after releasing some spray into the room as a prank. We ran straight out of the room. I do not consider things like this for myself as an adult, but what I will write on that where that led to perhaps is not something to is owned by myself in a matter of words but perhaps was added to. Perhaps the seeds was there already. That is why as a teen I liked things like Out of this World.

I get such a great feeling from being around some nature as well.

I like to try and take people as they come. However, sometimes it can seem I get things coming at me and not understand them because they have not explained themselves. I cannot read anyones mind so sometimes consider if online is the thing for me as my interaction isn't great either lets say.

I like some arts and the creation of arts.

I have let most of the errors that came naturally stand in here. I wil say though that I had books to write as a child that I put under the bed is what I meant to write....musings of Aspie..missing words not lol..

 

[KevinMao133]

Being able to write and put words into reality

I love rap and I’m creative when it comes to words

 

[Misery]

I'm an endless fountain of sarcasm. I grew up reading Garfield, you see, and I'm a natural mimic.

So that can make people laugh, and sometimes, that's just what's needed. At least in theory. I dunno, everyone seems to enjoy it, so I just keep doing it. Look, I'm just winging it here.

I'm super good with animals of any type. Granted, this can have downsides. My dogs are absolutely in charge, and they know it. One quick bark from them, and I'm all "yes, my liege".

I type at light speed. I dunno what to say about this one. It makes the sarcasm flow faster?

Very good with any kind of tech. Sort of. I deal with the software side of things very well. Not with the hardware side though, that part, it's more like that scene in Spongebob where Patrick somehow managed to nail a plank of wood to his head. Seriously dont let me try to fix hardware, it doesnt end well. But software? Yep! I'll complain about it the whole time, though. 'Tis the cost of doing business with me.

I can make really weird art that doesnt make any sense. Fractals, I mean. I can make other art too, but anything genuinely good that comes out of that is typically an accident.

I'm told I do the word thing real good. Which is kinda weird when I think about it, because if you were to ask me a simple question like "what's an adverb" I wont have an answer for you. An advanced verb? I dunno. School was a bucket of annoying, I couldnt pay attention, so I never learned that stuff. Look, I just put the words in order and hope they dont trip over each other.

 

[Metalhead]

I know how to write well in the English language.

According to many people I know, who keep on telling me I need to do more writing. According to them, I can write better than people who have master's degrees when I put my mind into it.

 

[Forest Cat]

I have been thinking about this and the only thing that comes to mind, is that I have always been good at learning languages. Learning English was very easy, it just made sense to me right away. So I talk English good.

But I don't cherish that about myself, like it said in the first post here. It's just something I'm good at.

 

[Tired]

I have been thinking about this and the only thing that comes to mind, is that I have always been good at learning languages. Learning English was very easy, it just made sense to me right away. So I talk English good.

But I don't cherish that about myself, like it said in the first post here. It's just something I'm good at.

And how many languages do you know?

 

[Forest Cat]

And how many languages do you know?

Four, four and a half maybe. Five if I'm drunk.

 

[Tired]

Four, four and half maybe. Five if I'm drunk.

Is the drunk one Danish?

 

[Judge]

Four, four and half maybe. Five if I'm drunk.

Können Sie Deutsch sprechen?

I once made the mistake of speaking German to a woman who was Danish. Having worked with her for years, I just assumed she was American given her accent was virtually undetectable. Oops.