What makes you - you?

[SimplyWandering]

I recently saw the first episode of Sesame Street featuring the new Muppet Julia who has autism and I find it fascinating how they explain it to Big Bird who seems not to understand what autism is. He seems rather annoyed that she is being unresponsive and I think to myself this is how people must have thought of me. We are all good at certain things.

I realize I AM good at organizing events/information. Doing things to make me feel happy.


So being different and all, what makes you - you? What are you exceptional at?

 

[Gritches]

I'm an exceptional problem solver, I'm proud of that.

My psych actually posited that I'm such a good problem solver, that when I have a relative lack of major problems to solve that I'll subconsciously create problems via self-sabotage. And you know wut? I think she's right.

 

[Nervous Rex]

I excel at exploring possibilities. Give me any system and I'll find everything you can do with it.

That helps me at work with math and programming. My coworkers often bring me ideas they want to patent and I tell them all the other applications of their idea that they didn't see (oddly, I almost never think of the original idee myself).

In leisure, it's Legos, magnets, and straws.

When I get something in my hands, I automatically ask, "what can I do with this?"

 

[SusanLR]

I have an exceptionally inquiring, need to learn, can't get enough of studying so many things mind.
What makes everything in life tick?
I'm interested in everything it seems. From metaphysics to astrophysics.
Biology to psychology. Anything to keep on growing in knowledge. That's me.
A psych once told me I can't just enjoy a sunset without wanting to know why this part is red, that is yellow,
and the whys to it. True.
Maybe being an Aries helps? Or an Aspie?

 

[Progster]

1. All the tissues of my body, configured in the way they are. Except when I had that tumour, that didn't feel a part of me, an invading force.
2. My mind.
3. My personality.