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What talents do you have? (lemmy.autism.place)
submitted 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

I've been told I'm a very good driver, in the sense that people feel safe and comfortable in the car when I drive, and can fall asleep easily. I also usually get better gas mileage than even the manufacturer's claims. Learnt that while transporting sick and injured people for the Red Cross.

I've been told I'm a very good cook, and am often asked to taste test food and tell if something is still missing. It's a result from having been poor for 2 decades and a need to make tasty meals out of whatever ingredients were available or about to spoil. You get creative with combinations and learn what works and what doesn't, that way.

And people seem to be impressed with how good I am at fixing or figuring out technical and computer things.
Although all I really do when I troubleshoot is mentally break the system down into small parts and then apply the scientific method (or the Sherlock Holmes method, I guess) of ruling causes out until only one possibility remains.
By the way, that principle is perfectly described in the book "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Really good at programming.

I know most programming languages and have so many opinions of them, many angry ones.

Have made many small games, servers, web apps, desktop apps, high frequency trading code, 3D graphics software, random number generator library.

At a company I worked for, I solved their programming test with a hand coded printer document: When printing the document, overly complicated document layout rules would solve the problem on the printer's little computer chip and print out the solution. (Obviously not during the interview, but afterwards for fun.)

Yes it sounds like insane bragging but this is what I do and I am happy about it and proud of it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I learned to code quite early, but I wouldn't say it's my talent 😅.

Other than that, I'm good at math

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

How mathematical! a^1^ + b^2^ = c^3^

[–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

Every? None.

It would help to rephrase or contextualize your question, in order to find better answers. E.g. What motivated you to ask? Do you have any suspicions on ubiquitous talents?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 18 hours ago

You know what they say...

If you're met one autistic person....you've met one autistic person

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Not really. I meant what talents do each autistic have. Sorry for the choice of words.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks for clarifying! That makes more sense. :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

You're welcome. Sorry I misphrased it at first.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I would imagine autistic people have the same various talents as anyone else. Being autistic doesn't immediately give someone access to some mysterious specific "talent" like The X-Men lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

Maybe I phrased it wrong. My bad.